**About the Editors**

**Jonathan Crush** (Professor) is Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada and Professor Extraordinary at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He founded the Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP) and African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN), research, policy and capacity-building networks of Canadian and African universities and researchers. He also established the Hungry Cities Partnership, which links researchers from Canada with partners in Mexico, Jamaica, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Kenya, India and China. He has published extensively on issues of migration, food security and urbanization in Africa and co-edited the recent Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South.

**Zhenzhong Si** (Research Associate) is a postdoctoral fellow with broad research interests in sustainable food systems, food security, food safety and rural development initiatives. He is currently working on the COVID-19 and Food Security in China Project with the Hungry Cities Partnership at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada. He teaches food system sustainability and food security at the University of Toronto and Wilfrid Laurier University. His doctoral research examined the emerging alternative food networks in China, their roles in sustainable rural development and their interactions with the state. He is the co-author of Organic Food and Farming in China: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Ecological Initiatives.
