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MiFOOD celebrates the successful defence of a PhD dissertation by Zack Ahmed at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, which strengthens the Network’s research on migration, urban informality, and food security. The dissertation, titled “The Politics of Survival: South-South Migration, Urban Informality, Governance, and the Food Security Nexus in Nairobi, Kenya,” defended by MiFOOD colleague […]

The MiFOOD Network is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the African Journal of Governance and Development (AJGD) titled Climate Change, Mobility, and Food Systems in Africa: Intersections, Vulnerabilities, and Pathways to Resilience. The special issue brings together a collection of empirical, conceptual, and review-based papers examining how climate change is

The Women Feeding Cities (WFC) Mexico research team, based at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), convened a Policy Engagement Workshop on 11 December 2025 (10:00–13:00) in the city of Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. The workshop brought together 14 participants (12 women and 2 men), including women involved in informal food vending and a cross-section of local

The MiFOOD Network and the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) co-hosted a landmark policy forum on December 4, 2025, convening policymakers, service providers, community leaders, researchers, and people with lived experience to translate new evidence on migrant food insecurity into practical, locally relevant action. With the financial support of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research

The Women Feeding Cities (WFC) team at the University of Namibia successfully convened a Policy Engagement Workshop on 6th November 2025 at the Jose Eduardo Dos Santos UNAM Campus. The workshop brought together women informal food vendors from Oshakati, Ongwediva, and Ondangwa, along with local town council officials and academic researchers, to validate research findings

On 29 September 2025, the Kingston Team of the MiFOOD network held an online workshop entitled ‘Measuring Food Security in Caribbean SIDS’. The half-day workshop was organized to reflect on measures of food security at different scales – the household, city, nation, and region, within a Caribbean context. The motivation behind the workshop arose from

The MiFOOD Network hosted its first-ever Research and Writing Workshop from August 5–8, 2025, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. Designed as a creative and immersive capacity-building event, it brought together MiFOOD researchers from Canada, Namibia, Mozambique, Jamaica, Ecuador, Mexico, and South Africa to sharpen research and writing skills, learn new

On July 31, 2025, the MiFOOD Network hosted a half-day workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, bringing together researchers from Canada, South Africa, and China to share recent findings on the intersection of migration, food security, and resilience in the face of global disruptions. Cohosted by the MiFOOD Network, the

From July 28 to 30, MiFOOD team members participated in the 6th International Conference on Canadian, Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization (ICCCASU) in Ottawa. Under the theme “Humanizing Urbanization: Housing, Livelihoods, and Resilient Cities in a Changing World,” the conference brought together global voices to explore inclusive, people-centered approaches to urban development. The MiFOOD Network