MiFOOD partner Dr. Elizabeth Onyango at University of Alberta and her research team have published a new open-access article in PLOS ONE examining how COVID-19 policies affected women informal food vendors in Kisumu, Kenya. The article, “An intersectionality-based policy analysis of COVID-19 measures and women informal food vendors in Kisumu, Kenya,” draws on interviews, focus
R2 Project Postdoctoral Fellow Zack Ahmed has published a new article in The Conversation, “Remittances can help African countries adapt to climate change,” highlighting the important but often overlooked role of migrant remittances in strengthening household food security and climate resilience. Dr. Ahmed notes that while developing countries face a major shortfall in climate adaptation
MiFOOD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Zack Ahmed participated in the Africa–Gulf Migration, Mobility and Trade: Past and Present, Policy and Prospects workshop, held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 9–11 September 2026. The workshop was convened by the Gulf Labour Markets, Migration and Population (GLMM) Programme of the Gulf Research Center, the African Migration and Development Policy Centre
MiFOOD researchers participated in the 13th International Conference on Population Geographies, held from June 23 to 26, 2026, in Nanjing, China. With the theme “Population Geographies in an Era of Demographic Transition,” ICPG 2026 brought together scholars from around the world to discuss population change, migration, mobility, socio-spatial inequality and sustainable development. MiFOOD researchers were
On June 8, 2026, MiFOOD’s partner in India, the International Institute for Migration and Development (IIMAD), hosted an inception workshop for three MiFOOD research projects at its City Office in Kumarapuram, Kerala. The workshop welcomed Dr. Ginu Zacharia Oommen, Chairperson of the Kerala State Food Commission, who interacted with the research teams and shared valuable
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The MiFOOD Network and the Remitting for Resilience (R2) project hosted a seminar on July 10, 2026, with R2 project partner Professor Tim Brown from Queen Mary University of London, who presented early findings from the project’s field research in Zimbabwe. Titled “Remitting for Resilience (R2): Report from Zimbabwe,” the seminar focused on formal and
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MiFOOD Network scholar Dr. Sean T. Sithole has published a new Balsillie Paper, Fintech, Financial Inclusion and Digital Remittances in Southern Africa. The paper examines how financial technology is transforming cross-border remittance systems in Southern Africa, with particular attention to the South Africa–Zimbabwe corridor. Sithole explores the growing role of mobile money, e-wallets, digital platforms
Researchers from the MiFOOD Network at the Institute for Social Development (ISD) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa, organised a momentous policy forum on March 26, 2026. The event brought together community leaders, researchers, service providers, individuals with policy backgrounds, and people with lived experience to translate emerging evidence
The MiFOOD Network, in partnership with the University of Nairobi (UON), convened leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in Nairobi for a two-day conference titled “Gendered Entrepreneurship & the Urban Informal Food Ecosystem: Findings from the MiFOOD Women Feeding Cities Project.” The conference that took place on February 9-11 brought together researchers from Africa, Latin America
The Women Feeding Cities (WFC) project team in Jamaica convened the second Policy Engagement Workshop (PEW) in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 27 January 2026, bringing together policymakers, researchers, and local stakeholders to examine the resilience of food systems in the face of multiple shocks. Held under the theme “Shock Response Food Systems,” the workshop broadened
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