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
The R2 Project convened a virtual Knowledge Co-Production Workshop with leaders of Ghanaian associations from London, Toronto, and Kitchener–Waterloo on October 31, 2025. Representatives from the Ghana Association of London and Middlesex, Ghana-Canada Association of Ontario and the Ghanaian Canadian Association, Waterloo Region attended the workshop. The R2 project research team, including the project manager
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
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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
MiFOOD partner and IIMAD Director Prof. S. Irudaya Rajan edits the newly released Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities (Edward Elgar, 2024). This Handbook which includes 37 chapters explores the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant populations such as international students, refugees, undocumented migrants and informal urban workers. It examines how
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MiFOOD partner Cecilia Tacoli is the lead editor of the newly published Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South (Edward Elgar, 2025). The book offers a comprehensive review of how, in rapidly urbanizing low- and middle-income countries, the links between rural and urban areas, people and enterprises are becoming increasingly intense and complex. With
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