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The MiFOOD team in Ecuador organized the workshop and photo exhibit “Migration and Food (In)Security: Resilient Narratives and Post-pandemic Memory”. The project team presented the results from the first year of the MiFOOD Quito project and inauguration of the photo exhibition “Migration and Food Insecurity: Resilient Narratives and Post-Pandemic Memory” in the Centre for Contemporary […]

On Feb 21, 2024, the MiFOOD network launched its new website mifood.org. The Director of MiFOOD, Prof. Jonathan Crush and research manager Zhenzhong Si gave an overview of the MiFOOD project and outputs. The website developer Jacob Buurma from Vibrant Content talked about the key features and content of the website. The content of the

MiFOOD Team Leader, Professor S Irudaya Rajan, edits Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on return migration to South and South East Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic. This special issue does a comprehensive coverage of several topics related to return migration. It has adopted an interdisciplinary lens in understanding issues related to return migration thereby

The MiFOOD network and the Women Feeding Cities project jointly host a workshop with the University of Namibia in Windhoek on October 16, 2023. The workshop titled “After the Pandemic: Perspectives on International Migration and Food Insecurity” showcases eight presentations highlighting cutting-edge research in the dynamic interactions between migration and food insecurity during and after

MiFOOD co-hosted the International Symposium on Migration and Mobilities with University of the Western Cape and the Migration and Mobilities Interdisciplinary Collective in Africa (MMICA) from October 12th to 13th, 2023. The Symposium responds to the evolving need to examine mobilities on various scales, through collaborative local and global partnerships and interdisciplinary approaches. The symposium thematically

The MiFOOD workshop Migration, Food Security and Crisis Management in the Gulf, held in partnership with Hamid Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, featured lead researchers in the field of migration and food security. This was an exceptional opportunity to discuss some of the most recent studies on the changing dynamics of labour migration to the

MiFOOD’s Sujata Ramachandran and Jonathan Crush publish commentary “Food security, equitable development and South–South migration: Towards a research agenda” in the journal International Migration. The commentary reflects on recent policy-related and research moves to connect migration with food security. Building on a review of recent signs of progress in global governance, it highlights how the

On October 16th, the MiFOOD team hosts a workshop with colleagues from University of Namibia on “After the Pandemic: Perspectives on International Migration and Food Insecurity”. The half-day workshop features eight presentations from MiFOOD colleagues from Canada, Namibia, Mexico, Ecuador and Kenya. The workshop is also attended by representatives from international organizations related to migration

MiFOOD co-hosts the International Symposium on Migration and Mobilities with University of the Western Cape and the Migration and Mobilities Interdisciplinary Collective in Africa (MMICA) from October 12th to 13th, 2023. The Symposium responds to the evolving need to examine mobilities on various scales, through collaborative local and global partnerships and interdisciplinary approaches. The symposium

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