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The special issue “Cities of Contagion: Pandemic Precarity, Migration, and Food Security in Urban Africa” co-edited by MiFOOD Director Jonathan Crush and researcher Zack Ahmed is published in the journal African Human Mobility Review. This Special Issue seeks to “enhance our understanding of the nexus between migration and food security in urban Africa in at […]

The MiFOOD team in Mozambique organized two Policy Engagement Workshops—one in Xai-Xai on August 26, 2024, and another in Maputo on October 30, 2024—as part of the Women Feeding Cities Project. This project aims to understand the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on women in the informal food sector, providing informed policy recommendations to support post-pandemic

MiFOOD and IIMAD organized a webinar on migration and food security on October 18, 2024 to celebrate the World Food Day. The webinar, chaired by Prof. S. Irudaya Rajan of IIMAD, featured MiFOOD Director Jonathan Crush, who provided an overview of the MiFOOD network, its core objectives, and key outputs. The event also showcased recent

On October 8, 2024, several members of the MiFOOD Network participated in the Migration and Technology: Governance Innovation, Challenges and Future Directions that Leave No One Behind workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. The International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), the MiFOOD Network, and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) organized this workshop,

MiFOOD team in Ecuador initiates its “Manos Al Huerto” (Gardening Together) project by installing an irrigation system together with migrants from Venezuela and Colombia at the Foundation Nuestros Jovenes in Quito on September 22nd, 2024. The project is part of the MiFOOD SSHRC Project and involves the collaboration between ConQuito, FNJ, Agrupar and has been

MiFOOD team in Ecuador launches work for its Recipe and Oral History project “Sabores y Saberes que Migran”  (Wisdom and flavours that migrate). This project is one of the outputs of the research and community extension project of MiFOOD in Ecuador. It involves the collaboration of migrants, researchers, international and local organizations, including the World

More than 10 members of the Women Feeding Cities (WFC) project attended the Mid-term Forum of NFRF-2022 on September 12-13, 2024. Dr. Sujata Ramachandran presented, on behalf of the project, the project objectives, introduced the team members and highlighted the important outcomes of the project, including graduate students mentorship and training and policy audit reports

The MiFOOD Network launches its new AI-assisted podcast series exploring the latest global research on migration and food security. Tune in to MiFOOD Conversations: Global Perspectives on Migration and Food Security to find out more from your co-hosts Maria Salamone and Jonathan Crush as they explore the impact of COVID-19 on global migration, the importance

MiFOOD director Jonathan Crush coauthored a paper with team member Godfrey Tawodzera from the University of the Western Cape about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant remittances. The paper titled “Digital Disruptions in the South Africa–Zimbabwe Remittance Corridor During COVID-19” is now published in the journal Migration and Development. The paper aims to

Zack Ahmed, a PhD candidate in Global Governance and a researcher on migration and food security with MiFOOD Network, recently represented BSIA and the World Food Forum (WFF) at a high-profile side event during the United Nations (UN) High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York. The event, held on July 15, 2024, at the UN Headquarters,