This chapter conceptualises urban food movements as hybrid governance. After introducing the concept, the chapter dives into its definition as applied to urban food movements. Hybrid governance highlights the interactions and tensions among different agencies and modes of governance (bottom-up, horizontal, top-down, market-driven) characterising the constellation of actors, organisations, and institutions that urban food movements are part of. As urban food initiatives raise, develop, and seek to access essential resources in order to spur food system change, they experience critical governance tensions. This conceptual analysis identifies resource, organisational, and institutional governance tensions as particularly relevant. In particular, these tensions reveal the key obstacles faced by urban food initiatives in their growth and development. They also display the pathways through which food governing practices can be improved and food movements can exercise a relevant impact in their socio-institutional contexts. While the urban food literature already hints at important aspects of these tensions, the interactions among them and their outcomes in urban food movements need to be fully explored. This chapter constitutes the conceptual stepping-stone towards the analysis of real life cases of urban food initiatives in Toronto and Brussels.