The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) is an international network of partner organizations which focuses on the relationships between rapid urbanization, urban food systems and migration 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 migrant origin and destination communities and corridors.

Between 2014 and 2020, HCP operated in China, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique and South Africa and was 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). In 2021, HCP was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Grant for a new seven-year project entitled South-South Migration and Migrant Food Security in the Global South (the MiFOOD Project). New HCP partner countries include Ecuador, Ghana, Namibia, Qatar and Singapore. New international partners include the FAO, IFPRI, ILO, IOM, MIDEQ and SDSN.

• Migration and Food Security (MiFOOD) SSHRC Partnership Grant Project is officially launched

  On December 13th 2021, researchers and representatives of international organizations joined the MiFOOD team from 14…

• QES-AS Scholar Percy Toriro publishes book on the changing urban food system in Zimbabwe

  QES-AS Scholar Percy Toriro publishes book Environmental Resilience: Food and the City- Zimbabwe. This book discusses…

• The Book “Urban Food Deserts: Perspectives from the Global South” co-edited by Jonathan Crush and Zhenzhong Si is published

  Jonathan Crush and Zhenzhong Si co-edited the book "Urban Food Deserts: Perspectives from the Global South"…

• MiFOOD Paper No. 2: 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…

• MiFOOD Paper No. 1: South-South Migration, Food Insecurity and the COVID-19 Pandemic

  The implementation of global migration governance processes such as the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and the…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 53: Changing Priorities in Urban Food Security Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

  The study of urban food security has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. This evolution…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 52: Assessing Supermarket Patronage in Matola, Mozambique

  As an indicator of a broader nutrition transition, the supermarketization of urban food systems in the…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 51: State-Led Localization of Food Provisioning and Food Security in Urban China

  Food localization has been extensively studied and advocated in Western countries, focusing on its oppositional stance…

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