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MiFOOD scholar Sean Sithole featured in IMRC podcast on fintech and remittances
MiFOOD Network hosts policy forum in Cape Town to advance inclusive food security governance for migrants and refugees
MiFOOD hosts Nairobi conference presenting findings from the Women Feeding Cities project on gendered entrepreneurship and the urban informal food ecosystem
MiFOOD scholar Sean Sithole featured in IMRC podcast on fintech and remittances
MiFOOD Network hosts policy forum in Cape Town to advance inclusive food security governance for migrants and refugees
LATEST MiFOOD PAPERS
Migration and Meatification: Ghana’s Urban Protein Economy
Africa is experiencing a rapid urban transformation that is fundamentally reconfiguring urban food environments, value chains, and consumption behaviour. At the heart of this shift is the meatification of urban diets, characterized by increased consumption of animal-source proteins. This paper examines the dynamics of Ghana’s urban protein economy, focusing on the critical yet invisible role of West African migrants in…
COVID-19, Food (In)security and Migrant Wellbeing: A Comparative Study of Ecuador, South Africa, and Canada
This paper examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among migrants and refugees in three cities across the Global North and South: Kitchener-Waterloo, Quito, and Cape Town. Drawing on household survey data, complemented by qualitative insights and policy analysis, it adopts a comparative mixed-methods approach to analyse how pandemic-related disruptions intersected with pre-existing inequalities in labour insertion,…
Displacement, COVID-19, and Food Security: A Photovoice Study with Resettled Syrian Women in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada
This paper examines the multiple ways forced migration and the COVID-19 pandemic shaped the food security experiences and food-focused activities of resettled Syrian women in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. Based on a participatory Photovoice study with 11 Syrian women, it explores how displacement undermines food security, including cultural food security, and why recovery remains difficult even after resettlement in a high-income country…
LATEST MiFOOD PAPERS
Migration and Meatification: Ghana’s Urban Protein Economy
Africa is experiencing a rapid urban transformation that is fundamentally reconfiguring urban food environments, value chains, and consumption behaviour. At the heart of this shift is the meatification of urban diets, characterized by increased consumption of animal-source proteins. This paper examines the dynamics of Ghana’s urban protein economy, focusing on the critical yet invisible role of West African migrants in…
COVID-19, Food (In)security and Migrant Wellbeing: A Comparative Study of Ecuador, South Africa, and Canada
This paper examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among migrants and refugees in three cities across the Global North and South: Kitchener-Waterloo, Quito, and Cape Town. Drawing on household survey data, complemented by qualitative insights and policy analysis, it adopts a comparative mixed-methods approach to analyse how pandemic-related disruptions intersected with pre-existing inequalities in labour insertion,…