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The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) and the MiFOOD Project recently participated in the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) at York University, Toronto. This event was part of the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The theme of the CAFS conference was ‘Reckonings, Reimaginings, and Reconciliations, Within and Through […]

MiFOOD Paper No. 6 “Incomplete Documentation, Isolation and Food Security among Central American Migrants in Mexico City” authored by MiFOOD collaborator Tiana Bakić Hayden is now published online. The paper examines some of the factors that contribute to food insecurity among the growing populations of Central American migrants who reside in Mexico City. It contributes

MiFOOD publishes Paper No. 5: Migrant Women’s Food Insecurity Experiences in the Breadbasket of Ghana. It is coauthored by Jemima Nomunume Baada, Moses Kansanga, Joseph Kangmennaang and MiFOOD collaborator Isaac Luginaah. The paper employs generalized linear latent and mixed models (gllamm) to examine the key determinants of the food insecurity experiences of migrant women in

MiFOOD Collaborator Chetan Choithani publishes new book “Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India“. The book published by Cambridge University Press examines the role of migration as a livelihood strategy in influencing food access among rural households. Migration forms a key component of livelihoods for an increasing number of rural households in many

On October 27 and 28, 2022, the International Migration Conference: “Food (In)Security and Migrants on the Move” co-hosted by IIMAD, HCP, BSIA and IMRC takes place online to discuss the highly topical issue of the relationship between food insecurity and international and internal migration. The Conference addresses four main themes: (a) food security precarity of

MiFOOD’s Cherie Enns at the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada coauthored a book “Child Rights and Displacement in East Africa: Agency and Spatial Justice in Planning Policy” with Willibard J. Kombe at Ardhi University, Tanzania. Focusing on the intersection of spatial justice, child rights, and planning policy, this book investigates the challenges of resettlement

The Migration and Food Security (MiFOOD) Network of the Hungry Cities Partnership recently embarked on 25 new research projects with partners in Canada, Ecuador, Mexico, Jamaica, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Kenya, Ghana, Qatar, Singapore, India and China.  These projects fall under the Network’s Workstream One: Precarity, Exclusion and Migrant Food Insecurity in the City.  For more information

IIMAD and MiFOOD’s Irudaya Rajan publishes article titled “Distress return migration amid COVID-19: Kerala’s response” in the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. The paper explores the circumstances of return migration since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on a case study of Kerala and provide insights on the future of emigration from this

Nanjing University’s Taiyang Zhong coauthored the MiFOOD Paper No.3 with Fei Xu and Jonathan Crush entitled “COVID-19, the Hukou System and Migrant Food Security in Urban China”. Using multiple linear regression and ordered logistic regression, the paper examines the impact of migration status on food security during the pandemic. The paper finds that during the

On June 28th 2022, Dr. Jenna Hennebry presents at the MiFOOD Webinar Series on gendering the Global Compact for Migration after COVID. In the webinar, Dr. Hennebry reflects on the capacity of the UN Network on Migration and the commitments of states and stakeholder to respond to the realities of gender inequality that have been