Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South

Front Matter
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Contents
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1. Introduction to urban food security in the Global South
2. Food (in)security in rapidly urbanizing, low-income contexts
3. Food systems transformation in an urbanizing world
4. An impermanent subsidy: Cheap industrial food and the urban margins
5. Urban/rural differences in stunting and obesity: Trends for low-income and middle-income countries
6. Scales of (in)action at the climate change-food security nexus in cities
7. The “supermarket revolution” in the South
8. Urbanization and the quiet revolution in the midstream of agrifood value chains
9. Food systems at the rural-urban interface
10. The urban informal food sector in the Global South
11. The gender-urban-food interface in theGlobal South
12. Urban agriculture in low-income and middle-income countries
13. Urban food security and South–South migration to cities of the Global South
14. Food remittances and food security
15. Industrialization, food safety and urban food security in the Global South
16. Food waste and the growth of food banks in the Global South
17. The planned “city region” in the New Urban Agenda: An appropriate framing for urban food security?
18. Perspectives on urban food-system governance in the Global South
19. Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor: Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps
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