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).

• HCP publishes report on inclusive growth and informal food vending in Mexico City, Mexico

  HCP publishes report on inclusive growth and informal food vending in Mexico City, Mexico. The report…

• HCP researchers Ndeyapo Nickanor, Lawrence Kazembe, Jonathan Crush and Jeremy Wagner publish an evaluation of the African supermarket revolution in Namibia in Development Southern Africa

  HCP researchers Ndeyapo Nickanor, Lawrence Kazembe, Jonathan Crush and Jeremy Wagner publish an evaluation of the African…

• HCP Publishes the Report of the IPaSS Close-out Conference

  HCP publishes the report of the IPaSS close-out conference on "Localising the SDGS through an Urban Food…

• 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 Report No. 20: Inclusive Growth and the Informal Food Sector in Bangalore, India

  The informal food sector is critical to the food security of poor urban households in rapidly…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 45: Food Security Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Wuhan and Nanjing, China

  After decades of famine and thousands of deaths caused by food shortages and starvation, China was…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 44: Change, Challenge and Opportunity in the Indian Urban Food System: Lessons from Bangalore, India

  Over the past decade and a half, food policies have undergone much change as decentralization and…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 43: Revisiting China’s Supermarket Revolution: Evidence from Nanjing City

  Like many emerging economies in the Global South, China is experiencing major transformations of its national…

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