The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) is an international network of cities and city-based partner organizations which focuses on the relationships between rapid urbanization, informality, inclusive growth and urban food systems in the Global South.

The HCP conducts collaborative research, training and advocacy with the objective of providing innovative solutions to the challenge of building sustainable cities and policies and programs that promote food security in the cities.

The HCP currently operates in China, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique and South Africa and is funded by the International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies (IPaSS) program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

• Canadian Government awards $2.5 million to new HCP Project on South-South Migration and Migrant Food Security in the Global South: Interactions, Impacts and Remedies (MiFood Project)

  Canadian Government announces results of 2021 SSHRC Partnership Grant competition and awards $2.5 million to new…

• HCP QES Post-Doctoral Fellow, Percy Toriro, publishes new article on the impact of COVID-19 on the informal sector in Harare, Zimbabwe

  HCP QES Post-Doctoral Fellow, Percy Toriro, publishes new article on the impact of COVID-19 on the…

• New HCP Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South profiled in The Conversation

  Dr. Jonathan Crush, Gareth Haysom and Bruce Frayne published an article on The Conversation that calls…

• HCP Report No. 23: Inclusive Growth and the Informal Food Sector in Windhoek, Namibia

  This report presents the results of the first comprehensive survey of the informal food sector in…

• HCP Report No. 22: Inclusive Growth and Informal Food Vending in Mexico City, Mexico

  This report describes and analyzes the food system of Mexico City’s Metropolitan Zone, where small-scale street…

• HCP Report No. 21: Inclusive Growth and Informal Food Vending in Nairobi, Kenya

  This report presents and analyzes the findings of a city-wide informal food vendors survey conducted by…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 49: Urban Food System Governance and Food Security in Namibia

  Namibia’s transition to an urban society is occurring extremely rapidly and with it has come a…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 48: COVID-19 and Emergency Food Security Policies in Urban China

  The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to spread worldwide, threatening people’s health as well as their food…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 47: Urban Food Security and Household Shocks in Nairobi, Kenya

  Even though urban poverty is a key component of the development agenda in Nairobi with a…

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