The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted urban rural linkages, posing unprecedented challenges to cities and their systems. City lockdowns have affected the flow of people and goods into and out of cities. This disruption has created food shortages, putting a majority of the urban population at risk of being food insecure. We previously reported on the impact of these challenges in a series of video diaries from food system actors in Nairobi. Author: Sam Ikua, Mazingira Institute