ABSTRACT
Urbanisation and economic growth, especially in cities of the Global South, combined with industrialisation and commercialisation of food systems, has impacted negatively on the relationship between landscape and food security for the urban poor. This impact helps drive rural to urban migration which is increasing the urbanisation of poverty and of food insecurity. Urban food insecurity is then exacerbated by urban planning policy which seeks to reimagine the urban and suburban landscapes as ‘modernised’, homogenous, globally recognisable sites for investment and business. In doing so, urban planning policy increasingly disadvantaged the urban poor in terms of their access to land and to food. Even when food is plentiful in the urban area, poverty, the location of markets, and the quality and environment of housing and settlements can conspire to make accessing and eventually cooking safe, nutritious, affordable food too costly and difficult for poor urban households.
