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Migration, Food Remittances and Dietary Diversity in Nairobi, Kenya

This QES-AS project is using data from a representative Hungry Cities Partnership household food security survey to model the similarities and differences between migrant and non-migrant households in relation to various food security outcomes. Thematic issues addressed include housebold vulnerability to pre-COVID economic, political and environmental shocks, urban-rural links and food remittances, and the determinants […]

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Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

This paper draws on data from a representative city-wide household food security survey of Nairobi conducted in 2017 to examine the importance of food remitting to households in contemporary Nairobi. The first section of the paper provides an overview of the urbanization and rapid growth of Nairobi, which has led to growing socio-economic inequality, precarious

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Food Remittances, Migration and Rural-Urban Linkages in Kenya

Rural-urban migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa do not generally cut their links with rural homes and much has been written about the character, types and implications of connections between rural areas and rapidly growing cities. The persistence of circular migration and the perpetuation of rural-urban connectivity is a distinctive feature of Kenyan urbanization. Informal non-market food

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