“…Indeed, there was more research and policy debate on urban food insecurity in the 1990s, when the South was a lot less urbanized than it is today (Drakakis- Smith, 1991;Maxwell, 1999;Smith, 1998). The only aspect of urban food security that continues to command significant attention has been urban agriculture, which is widely but improbably seen as the key to cities feeding themselves (Badami and Ramankutty, 2015;Binns and Nel, 2020;Frayne et al, 2014;Lee-Smith, 2010).…”