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The Remitting for Resilience (R2) Project successfully held its Inception Workshop at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) on February 17, 2025, bringing together leading researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners from across Africa and beyond. The workshop marked a significant step in advancing the project’s mission to explore how migrant remittances contribute to food […]

As part of the Women Feeding Cities Project, the MiFOOD team in Jamaica organized a virtual Policy Engagement Workshop (PEW) to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the informal food sector in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The meeting was held 19 February 2025. A range of stakeholders representing ministries, departments and agencies of the

The special issue “Cities of Contagion: Pandemic Precarity, Migration, and Food Security in Urban Africa” co-edited by MiFOOD Director Jonathan Crush and researcher Zack Ahmed is published in the journal African Human Mobility Review. This Special Issue seeks to “enhance our understanding of the nexus between migration and food security in urban Africa in at

The MiFOOD team in Mozambique organized two Policy Engagement Workshops—one in Xai-Xai on August 26, 2024, and another in Maputo on October 30, 2024—as part of the Women Feeding Cities Project. This project aims to understand the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on women in the informal food sector, providing informed policy recommendations to support post-pandemic

On October 24, 2024, the Women Feeding Cities (WFC) project convened a stakeholder workshop at the Frank Kavishe Boardroom, JEDS Campus in Ongwediva, bringing together experts and policymakers to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on women in the informal food sector in Northern Namibia. Organized by Dr. Ndeyapo Nickanor and Dr. Vonai Charamba from the

MiFOOD and IIMAD organized a webinar on migration and food security on October 18, 2024 to celebrate the World Food Day. The webinar, chaired by Prof. S. Irudaya Rajan of IIMAD, featured MiFOOD Director Jonathan Crush, who provided an overview of the MiFOOD network, its core objectives, and key outputs. The event also showcased recent

On October 8, 2024, several members of the MiFOOD Network participated in the Migration and Technology: Governance Innovation, Challenges and Future Directions that Leave No One Behind workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. The International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), the MiFOOD Network, and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) organized this workshop,

MiFOOD team in Ecuador initiates its “Manos Al Huerto” (Gardening Together) project by installing an irrigation system together with migrants from Venezuela and Colombia at the Foundation Nuestros Jovenes in Quito on September 22nd, 2024. The project is part of the MiFOOD SSHRC Project and involves the collaboration between ConQuito, FNJ, Agrupar and has been

MiFOOD team in Ecuador launches work for its Recipe and Oral History project “Sabores y Saberes que Migran”  (Wisdom and flavours that migrate). This project is one of the outputs of the research and community extension project of MiFOOD in Ecuador. It involves the collaboration of migrants, researchers, international and local organizations, including the World

More than 10 members of the Women Feeding Cities (WFC) project attended the Mid-term Forum of NFRF-2022 on September 12-13, 2024. Dr. Sujata Ramachandran presented, on behalf of the project, the project objectives, introduced the team members and highlighted the important outcomes of the project, including graduate students mentorship and training and policy audit reports