MOZAMBIQUE
Mozambique has a long migration history to South Africa, lasting over two centuries. This stems from the agreement between the country’s former colonizer, Portugal, and the then Transvaal government in 1887 to provide workers. The migration to South Africa continued and increased due to multiple factors including the 16 years of war (1976-1992), natural disasters, and continued migrations due to economic challenges that affected the loss of job opportunities. Meanwhile, over the years, another typology of migration has been made of cross-border traders, mainly women. What Mozambicans do in South Africa is widely known as being employed in mines and farms in the Provinces of Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and others in informal businesses. The factors negatively affecting Household Food Security are mainly Epidemics such as COVID-19, increased cost of living, reduced income of household members, crime or theft, xenophobia, reduced remittance, and loss of employment of a household member. To cope with these adverse effects, migrants rely on less preferred food, reduce the number of meals, limit the proportion size at the table, borrow food, and purchase food on credit.
RESEARCH on MOZAMBIQUE
MiFOOD PAPERS
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JOURNAL ARTICLES
A Imigração Africana e os Novos Espaços Urbanos no Municipio da Cidada de Maputo
Os estudos de migração enfatizam as causas dos movimentos populacionais, impacto demográfico e econômico e distribuição espacial dos fluxos migratórios dando menor foco aos novos espaços urbanos criados por aqueles que vieram de outros lugares dentro dos territórios africanos. O foco deste estudo são os imigrantes africanos na cidade de Maputo no sentido de compreender as peculiaridades deste fenômenonas cidades africanas. É notável que novos bairros estão sendo formados por moradores da África Ocidental, Oriental e Austral. Que tipos de ...
Growing and Eating Food during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Farmers’ Perspectives on Local Food System Resilience to Shocks in Southern Africa and Indonesia
The COVID-19 outbreak forced governments to make decisions that had adverse effects on local food systems and supply chains. As a result, many small-scale food producers faced difficulties growing, harvesting, and selling their goods. This participatory research examines local small-scale farmers’ challenges as farmers but also as consumers and their coping strategies during the month of April and one week in June 2020. The study was initiated and conceptualized in collaboration with small-scale farmer members of an existing research network ...
The Household Food Security Implications of Disrupted Access to Basic Services in Five Cities in the Global South
COVID-19 has caused significant disruptions regarding the extent to which households can access basic services and resources in cities around the world. Previous studies have indicated a predictive relationship between the consistency of resource access and food access among urban households. These investigations, however, have predominantly been isolated to Southern Africa and have not accounted for other dimensions of food security. To test whether these results are observable outside Southern Africa, and with a more multidimensional measure of food security, ...
African Migrants toward Inclusive Growth in Mozambique: A case study of the city of Maputo
Migration African scholars have argued that the Migration of Africans is occurring within the continent. That Migration can either be intra-regional or inter-regional. South Africa and Northern Africa constitute the core for all African immigration flows; the so-called intra-immigration is made of migration chains such as within the Maghreb region, west, east, and southern Africa. Historically, Mozambique has sent labor to South Africa in plantations and mining for more than two centuries, while on the other hand, it was seen ...
RESEARCH PROJECTS
QES-AS Program: Governing Urban Food Systems in the Global South
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)
IPaSS: Informality, Inclusive Growth and Food Security in Cities of the Global South
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 five-year program of collaborative research on a variety of themes related to inclusive growth and the formal and informal urban food system in the study ...
Growing Informal Cities Project
GIC is funded by IDRC and is a partnership between SAMP, the African Centre for Cities (UCT), Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo and the Gauteng City Region Observatory (GCRO). The project recently completed a three year program of research on migrant entrepreneurship and informal cross-border trade (including in the food sector) in four African cities. Learn More
Women Feeding Cities Project: Gender-Transformative, Resilient, and Sustainable Covid-19 Recovery of the Informal Food Sector in Secondary Cities
This project funded by IDRC will ‘scale-down’ our NFRF-funded Women Feeding Cities Project by focusing on these gaps in secondary cities of less than 500,000 in partner countries. Using a gender-responsive lens, we will investigate the multiple ways in which the Covid-19 crisis has disrupted the livelihoods of women in the informal food economy and the challenges and prospects for sustainable pandemic recovery in four secondary cities in partner countries: Xai Xai (Mozambique), Montego Bay (Jamaica), Oshakati (Namibia), and Tapachula ...
Women Feeding Cities Project: Building a Gender-Transformative, Resilient, and Sustainable Informal Food Sector for COVID-19 Recovery
This Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) comparative international project is funded by NFRF. It will examine the food security impacts of COVID-19 on micro-enterprises owned by women in the informal urban food sector, their households and communities in four HCP cities: Maputo, Windhoek, Kingston (Jamaica) and Mexico City. It has four main objectives: (a) compare the impact of the pandemic and public health policies on women in the informal food sector in Africa and LAC; (b) examine the responses and strategies ...
African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN)
AFSUN was founded in 2008 with funding from the Canadian Government’s University Partners in Cooperation and Development (UPCD) Tier One Program to conduct research, capacity-building and policy work on the relationship between rapid urbanization and food security in 9 countries and 11 cities in Southern Africa. The research themes and outputs are all available on the WLU website. Learn More
Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP)
SAMP was founded in 1997 as a network of organizations in Southern Africa committed to advancing a regional migration and development agenda through research, training and advocacy. SAMP is an internationally-recognized leader in migration and development research in Africa and has been funded at various times by CIDA, UK-DFID, IDRC and the Open Society Foundation. SAMP is based at the IMRC at the Balsillie School and the University of Western Cape. Learn More
The Food Security of Mozambican Migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa
The aim of this study is to examine the economic conditions and livelihood activities of Mozambican migrants and to ascertain their food security status and experiences. This project objectives are to document the migration histories and economic livelihood activities of Mozambican migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa; to identify the major foods consumed by migrants, the sources and diversity of these foods; to measure the levels of food security among the Mozambican migrant households and determine the major factors influencing household ...
Remittances and Food Security in Panda District, Mozambique
This thesis research aims to analyze the role of remittances from international migrants in improving food security for Panda households. It will describe the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of Panda district; examine the socio-economic impacts of remittances on households in Panda district; and explain the influence of international migration on food security in Panda district.
BOOK CHAPTER
The Demography of the Maputo Province
Inês Macamo Raimundo • The Maputo Province is located in southern Mozambique, bordered by the Republic of South Africa and the Kingdom of e-Swatini, a key geographical condition among the reasons for fast demographic growth, side by side with higher job opportunities internally and regionally along with the proximity with Maputo city, the capital of the Republic of Mozambique. At the same time, internal and international migrants either use the Province as the final destination or as transit to access ...
A Cat-and-Mouse Game: Urban Street Vending in Maputo, Mozambique
Rogers Hansine • This paper discusses how street vendors in the city of Maputo have countervailed the municipal strategies and policies for pushing back their presence in public spaces and, in doing so, reclaimed public urban spaces. Based on ethnographic research carried out between 2015 and 2019 in the city of Maputo, four strategies have been identified: 1) adjustment of time-space routine; 2) spatial proximity; 3) compartmentalization of the merchandise and/or services; 4) symbiotic interaction. These strategies are not mutually ...
Migration in Maputo City and Ethnic Cohesion among Africans: To What Extent Do Ethnic Ties Contribute to Inclusive Growth?
Inês Macamo Raimundo • Migration theories have focused on causes of movements, demographic and economic impacts, and spatial distribution of migration flows. These theories have focused less on inclusive growth and ethnic cohesion in the context of migration. Published papers hardly discuss growth that centers on inclusive growth and migration and they do not address how ethnic cohesion has contributed to the integration of African migrants in each hosting country. While Africans fight each other in their countries of origin ...
POLICY AUDITS
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