Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South

Edited by Jonathan Crush, University Research Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada and Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Bruce Frayne, Professor and Director, School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada and Gareth Haysom, Researcher, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Contents:

1 Introduction to urban food security in the Global South 1
Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne and Gareth Haysom
2 Food (in)security in rapidly urbanizing, low-income contexts 23
Cecilia Tacoli
3 Food systems transformation in an urbanizing world 34
James Tefft and Marketa Jonasova
4 An impermanent subsidy: Cheap industrial food and the urban margins 62
Tony Weis, Marylynn Steckley and Bruce Frayne
5 Urban/rural differences in stunting and obesity : Trends for low-income
and middle-income countries 79
Susan Horton
6 Scales of (in)action at the climate change–food security nexus in cities 94
Carrie L. Mitchell, Joanne Fitzgibbons, Kristen Regier and
Siya Agarwal
7 The “supermarket revolution” in the South 113
Reena das Nair
8 Urbanization and the quiet revolution in the midstream of agrifood
value chains 145
Thomas Reardon
9 Food systems at the rural–urban interface 166
Felicity J. Proctor and Julio A. Berdegué
10 The urban informal food sector in the Global South 198
Graeme Young and Jonathan Crush
11 The gender–urban-food interface in the Global South 218
Liam Riley and Belinda Dodson
12 Urban agriculture in low-income and middle-income countries 233
Piero Conforti, Giulia Ponzini and Alberto Zezza
13 Urban food security and South–South migration to cities of the
Global South 261
Abel Chikanda, Jonathan Crush and Godfrey Tawodzera
14 Food remittances and food security 282
Jonathan Crush and Mary Caesar
15 Industrialization, food safety and urban food security in the
Global South 307
Jodi Koberinski, Zhenzhong Si and Steffanie Scott
16 Food waste and the growth of food banks in the Global South 328
Daniel N. Warshawsky
17 The planned “city region” in the New Urban Agenda : An appropriate
framing for urban food security? 341
Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson
18 Perspectives on urban food-system governance in the Global South 363
Gareth Haysom
19 Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor :
Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps 380
Marie T. Ruel, Jef L. Leroy, Olivier Ecker, Manuel Hernandez,
Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow

Index 397