My doctoral research examines gendered food security outcomes among low-income informal sector workers in rural and urban regions of Pakistan amid rising food inflationary shocks. The gendered food (in)security vulnerability of causal wage communities varies across rural-urban space, where most casual wage workers in large cities in Pakistan are low-skill migrants from rural regions, settling in environmentally degraded slums. They face heightened food insecurity stresses relative to their rural counterparts due to their distance away from food production, precarious employment, higher living cost, and poor quality housing. I seek to examine comparative gendered rural-urban food security among causal wage communities in Pakistan against the backdrop of rapid rural-to-urban migration and rising food prices.