Abstract
This chapter argues that the market function of urban agriculture (UA), alongside specific characteristics of the urban zone, allows urban farmers and marketers to reconnect the ecological to the social and economic within their livelihood strategies. Referring to urban political ecology and livelihoods frameworks, the chapter shows this happening to varying extents across the Global North and Global South, due to different extents of politicization and connection between producers and consumers. The chapter draws on primary data about vegetable marketing in Tamale, northern Ghana, and compares this with case studies from the Global North. The chapter concludes by considering the implications of these similarities and differences for the future of market-oriented UA in the Global North and South.