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.

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MiFOOD Postdoc Zack Ahmed Presents Kenya–Qatar Migration Research at Africa–Gulf Workshop in Nairobi

MiFOOD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Zack Ahmed participated in the Africa–Gulf Migration, Mobility and Trade: Past and Present, Policy ...
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MiFOOD researchers participate in the 13th International Conference on Population Geographies in Nanjing, China

MiFOOD researchers participated in the 13th International Conference on Population Geographies, held from June 23 to 26, 2026, ...
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IIMAD hosts inception workshop for three MiFOOD research projects

On June 8, 2026, MiFOOD’s partner in India, the International Institute for Migration and Development (IIMAD), hosted an ...

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South-South Migration: Examining the Links Between Food Security and Migration from Ghana to Qatar

Bernard Owusu

— PhD Thesis — This dissertation contributes to the migration-development literature by integrating food security into the analysis of South-South migration. While migration and development have been extensively studied, the connection between migration and food security remains underexplored, particularly in South-South migration contexts. The dissertation highlights the role of migration as both…

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Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, Sujata Ramachandran. (eds.) (2025). New Directions in South-South Migration. Springer Nature.

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Invisible Work, Visible Impacts: Gender, Migrants, and Informal Food Trade amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Global South

Laeba Khan

MiFOOD Paper No. 27 — This paper examines the abrupt and far-reaching consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on women engaged in the informal food sector within the Global South. It highlights the deepening effects of the pandemic on food insecurity, gender inequality, and economic disparities. Based on a case study of…

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

THESIS

South-South Migration: Examining the Links Between Food Security and Migration from Ghana to Qatar

Bernard Owusu

— PhD Thesis — This dissertation contributes to the migration-development literature by integrating food security into the analysis of South-South migration. While migration and development have been extensively studied, the connection between migration and food security remains underexplored, particularly in South-South migration contexts. The dissertation highlights the role of migration as both…

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Nicola Piper, Kavita Datta. (eds.) (2024). The Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals. Edward Elgar Publishing.

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