This research brief presents survey and interview data which was collected in the Kitchener- Waterloo (K-W) area in Ontario in 2022. It aims to depict the experience of refugees in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, with reference to their household food security and how gender and COVID-19 reproduced the structural challenges faced during resettlement in […]
The Hungry Cities Partnership has received a four-year (2017-2021) grant from the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships advanced scholars program to fund the exchange of doctoral, post-doctoral and early career scholars between Canada and partner cities. Learn More (PDF)
QES-AS Program: Governing Urban Food Systems in the Global South Read More »
This foundation project of the Hungry Cities Partnership is funded by the SSHRC and IDRC under the International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies Program (IPaSS). The project has facilitated the formation of an initial seven-city research and policy network across the Global South linked to researchers at five Canadian universities. The project has embarked on a
IPaSS: Informality, Inclusive Growth and Food Security in Cities of the Global South Read More »
Strategies to mitigate the public health impacts of COVID-19 have led to a secondary pandemic of global food insecurity. Our project will ‘scale up’ our First Round CIHR Grant on the negative impacts of COVID-19 on household food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China to three additional cities: Quito (Ecuador), Cape Town (South Africa) and
The study aims to assess the household food security of refugees from Somali, Syria and Afghanistan in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. The overarching goal is to design a high-impact and knowledge mobilization research with an agenda focused on the often-overlooked interactions between migration and food security among the refugee community. The research will provide valuable baseline
