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.

• Upcoming HCP Workshop “Migration, Food Security and Crisis Management in the Gulf”

  We are thrilled to announce the upcoming workshop Migration, Food Security and Crisis Management in the…

• 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…

• 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…

• MiFOOD Paper No. 12: Rural-Urban Transition and Food Security in India

  As a growing proportion of world’s population lives in cities and towns, food security is increasingly…

• MiFOOD Paper No. 11: An Exploratory Study of the Food Security of Displaced Venezuelans in Ecuadorian Cities During COVID-19

  The displacement of over 7 million Venezuelans is reconfiguring urban contexts in Latin America. Ecuador is…

• MiFOOD Paper No. 10: Linking Food Security with Development, Inequality and South-South Migration

  In this paper, we draw attention to the ignored linkages between food security, inequality, and development…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 58: Wild Foods, the Nutrition Transition and Urban Food Security in Northern Namibia

  Rapid urbanization and food system transformation in Africa have been accompanied by growing food insecurity, reduced…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 57: Pandemic Precarity and Food Insecurity in Urban Ghana During COVID-19

  The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban households in the Global South has not yet…

• HCP Discussion Paper No. 56: Towards a New Food Security Index for Urban Household Food Security

  The multidimensionality of food security can confound both statistical modelling and clear policy narratives. That complexity…

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