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HCP partner Abel Chikanda presents at the Larger Lecture webinar series of McMaster University on urban food insecurity in southern Africa

HCP partner Abel Chikanda presents his research on urban food insecurity in southern Africa at the Larger Lecture webinar series of McMaster University. The presentation provides an overview of the extent of food insecurity in Southern African Cities and argues for the development of the social infrastructure that support the economic activities of the urban […]

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HCP hosts workshop on “Migration, Food Security and Crisis Management in the Gulf”

The Hungry Cities Partnership hosted a workshop in Waterloo, Canada on Migration, Food Security and Crisis Management in the Gulf, featuring lead researchers in the field of migration and food security. The workshop discussed some of the most recent studies on the changing dynamics of labour migration to the Gulf from Asia and Africa. The

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HCP director Jonathan Crush and partner Godfrey Tawodzera publish SAMP Migration Policy Series on pandemic remittance shocks and resilience

HCP director Jonathan Crush and partner Godfrey Tawodzera publish SAMP Migration Policy Series No. 86 on “Pandemic Remittance Shocks and Resilience in the South Africa–Zimbabwe Migration Corridor”. Building on survey data, the report tests the conflicting global and local narratives about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on remittance flows in the South Africa-Zimbabwe migration

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HCP partners publish paper on aggregate food security access score measurement

HCP partners Vonai Charamba, Lawrence N. Kazembe and Ndeyapo Nickanor from University of Namibia publish a paper in the journal Food Security on the application of item response theory modelling to measure an aggregate food security access score. The study proposes a composite food insecurity indicator by aggregating items from Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS),

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The MiFOOD network attended conference of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS)

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

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HCP Partner Taiyang Zhong publishes paper on income loss and food insecurity during the pandemic

HCP partner Taiyang Zhong from Nanjing University (China) coauthors a paper with Qi Shen in the journal Foods. The paper entitled “Did Household Income Loss Have an Immediate Impact on Animal-Source Foods Consumption during the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic?” conducts an empirical study on the linkage between income loss and animal-source foods consumption

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HCP partners publish paper on COVID-19’s impacts on food security in Chinese cities

Yi-Shin Chang coauthors paper entitled “Governing for food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan and Nanjing, China” with HCP partners Zhenzhong Si, Jonathan Crush, Steffanie Scott and Taiyang Zhong. The paper is published in the journal Urban Governance. It draws on survey findings from the HCP project “Assessing and Mitigating the Food Security Consequences

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HCP partners Elizabeth Onyango, Jonathan Crush and Samuel Owuor publish paper on food insecurity and dietary deprivation in Kenya

HCP partners Elizabeth Onyango, Jonathan Crush and Samuel Owuor publish a paper titled “Food Insecurity and Dietary Deprivation: Migrant Households in Nairobi, Kenya” in the journal Nutrients. The paper examined whether migrant households are more likely to experience inferior diets, low dietary diversity, and increased dietary deprivation than their local counterparts. Second, it assesses whether

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HCP partners Ndeyapo Nickanor, Godfrey Tawodzera and Lawrence Kazembe coauthor paper about the threat of COVID-19 on food security

HCP Partner Ndeyapo Nickanor, Godfrey Tawodzera and Lawrence Kazembe coauthor a paper titled “The Threat of COVID-19 on Food Security: A Modelling Perspective of Scenarios in the Informal Settlements in Windhoek“. The paper published on the journal Land quantitatively assessed the effects of the Namibia government’s lockdown control measures on food insecurity in urban informal

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HCP Partner Taiyang Zhong publishes paper on the impact of community-level grassroots organizations on household food security during the COVID-19 epidemic in China

HCP partner Taiyang Zhong from Nanjing University coauthors a paper with Yajia Liang about community-level grassroots organizations on household food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. The paper published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction examined the relationship between community-level grassroots organizations and household food insecurity based on an online survey of

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