Although food security has been a focus of scholarly activity for over 40 years, interest in urban food security is fairly recent. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, food insecurity has long been an “invisible phenomenon to policy makers” (Crush and Frayne, 2010) and is “scarcely recognized in contemporary political debates” (Maxwell, 1998). While urban food insecurity is growing, national and municipal policymakers have focused on what are perceived to be more urgent urban problems such as unemployment, overcrowding, decaying infrastructure and declining services. In contrast, food insecurity has been dealt with as an agricultural production issue.