Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Food Security Is a Global Concern -- Part 1. The Concept of Urban Food Security -- For Self-reliant Cities: Urban Food Production in a Globalizing South -- Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Combining Social Justice and Sustainability for Food Security -- Part 2. Local Food Systems -- Promoting Sustainable Local Food Systems in the United States -- Community Agriculture Initiatives in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, United Kingdom -- Developing an Integrated, Sustainable Urban Food System: The Case of New Jersey, United States -- Public Policy and the Transition to Locally Based Food Networks -- Part 3. Urban and Community Agriculture -- Urban Agriculture in the Seasonal Tropics: The Case of Lusaka, Zambia -- The Contribution of Urban Agriculture to Gardeners, Their Households, and Surrounding Communities: The Case of Havana, Cuba -- Agriculture in the Metropolitan Park of Havana, Cuba -- People at the Centre of Urban Livestock Projects -- Measuring the Sustainability of Urban Agriculture -- Part 4. Accessibility and Urban Food Distribution -- Food Banks as Antihunger Organizations -- Bottlenecks in the Informal Food-transportation Network of Harare, Zimbabwe -- From Staple Store to Supermarket: The Case of TANSAS in Izmir, Turkey -- A Nonprofit System for Fresh-produce Distribution: The Case of Toronto, Canada -- Part 5. Ecological and Health Concerns -- Urban Food, Health, and the Environment: The Case of Upper Silesia, Poland -- Reuse of Waste for Food Production in Asian Cities: Health and Economic Perspectives -- How Meat-centred Eating Patterns Affect Food Security and the Environment -- Farming the Built Environment -- Part 6. Engendering the Food System -- Gender and Sustainable Food Systems: A Feminist Critique -- Women Workers in the NAFTA Food Chain.

Canadian Rural Women Reconstructing Agriculture -- Part 7. The Politics of Food and Food Policy -- Contemporary Food and Farm Policy in the United States -- Policy Failure in the Canadian Food System -- Urban Agriculture as Food-access Policy -- Part 8. Toward Food Democracy -- Reaffirming the Right to Food in Canada: The Role of Community-based Food Security -- Youth, Urban Governance, and Sustainable Food Systems: The Cases of Hamilton and Victoria, Canada -- Food Policy for the 21st Century: Can It Be Both Radical and Reasonable? -- Appendix 1. Abstracts -- Appendix 2. Contributing Authors -- Appendix 3. Acronyms and Abbreviations.