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Policy engagement workshops held in Xai-Xai and Maputo, Mozambique to identify challenges facing cross-border traders and food entrepreneurs

The MiFOOD team in Mozambique organized two Policy Engagement Workshops—one in Xai-Xai on August 26, 2024, and another in Maputo on October 30, 2024—as part ...
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MiFOOD and IIMAD celebrate World Food Day with webinar on migration and food security

MiFOOD and IIMAD organized a webinar on migration and food security on October 18, 2024 to celebrate the World Food Day. The webinar, chaired by ...
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MiFOOD Network participate in the Migration and Technology: Governance Innovation, Challenges and Future Directions that Leave No One Behind workshop

On October 8, 2024, several members of the MiFOOD Network participated in the Migration and Technology: Governance Innovation, Challenges and Future Directions that Leave No ...
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Policy engagement workshops held in Xai-Xai and Maputo, Mozambique to identify challenges facing cross-border traders and food entrepreneurs

The MiFOOD team in Mozambique organized two Policy Engagement Workshops—one in Xai-Xai on August 26, 2024, and another in Maputo on October 30, 2024—as part ...
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MiFOOD and IIMAD celebrate World Food Day with webinar on migration and food security

MiFOOD and IIMAD organized a webinar on migration and food security on October 18, 2024 to celebrate the World Food Day. The webinar, chaired by ...

LATEST MiFOOD PAPERS

Narratives of Food Consumption and Food Insecurity: Zimbabwean Migrants in Windhoek, Namibia

Godfrey Tawodzera

Decades of interlocking economic and political crisis have generated significant out-migration from Zimbabwe to other countries. Neighbouring countries with relative political stability and better livelihood opportunities, such as Namibia, have witnessed increased inflows of Zimbabweans. While there are studies documenting these movements, far less attention has been paid to the food security of Zimbabwean migrants in other countries. This paper…

Precarity, Food Insecurity, and Migration: The Kerala-Gulf Nexus and Women Domestic Workers

Anand Panamthottam Cherian

Low-skilled Malayali women migrants employed as domestic laborers in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)1 countries navigate a transnational labor system that entrenches gendered hierarchies and structural inequalities. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Kerala and the United Arab Emirates utilizing biographical methods such as life history and oral history reveals that migration, often envisioned as a pathway to economic security, intensifies vulnerabilities through…

Pandemic Shocks and the Food Security of Somali Migrants and Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya

Zack Ahmed, Jonathan Crush and Samuel Owuor

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered severe shocks to food security for marginalized populations in urban areas. Somali migrants and refugees in Nairobi’s Eastleigh neighbourhood faced disproportionate impacts due to strict containment measures, disrupted food supply chains, and the shutdown of informal markets. These disruptions exacerbated existing socio-economic inequities, leading to heightened food insecurity. This paper examines the multi-dimensional effects of the…

LATEST MiFOOD PAPERS

Narratives of Food Consumption and Food Insecurity: Zimbabwean Migrants in Windhoek, Namibia

Godfrey Tawodzera

Decades of interlocking economic and political crisis have generated significant out-migration from Zimbabwe to other countries. Neighbouring countries with relative political stability and better livelihood opportunities, such as Namibia, have witnessed increased inflows of Zimbabweans. While there are studies documenting these movements, far less attention has been paid to the food security of Zimbabwean migrants in other countries. This paper…

Precarity, Food Insecurity, and Migration: The Kerala-Gulf Nexus and Women Domestic Workers

Anand Panamthottam Cherian

Low-skilled Malayali women migrants employed as domestic laborers in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)1 countries navigate a transnational labor system that entrenches gendered hierarchies and structural inequalities. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Kerala and the United Arab Emirates utilizing biographical methods such as life history and oral history reveals that migration, often envisioned as a pathway to economic security, intensifies vulnerabilities through…

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