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Debates on food security and nutrition have shifted in the past decade or so, with growing attention to consumption and especially to access, affordability and utilization. This is due to interrelated factors that broadly reflect two transitions: the urban transition, with the majority of the world’s population now residing in urban centres (UNDESA, 2015), and the nutrition transition, with more overweight and obese individuals, often living in the same households as malnourished children (Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, 2016). Notwithstanding this shift in focus, food production remains the predominant concern of policy-makers at global and national levels, as reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals, with little indication of an understanding of the major challenges people in low-income urbanizing regions face in securing adequate diets (Battersby, 2017; Crush and Riley, 2018). Yet the …