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MiFOOD Network scholar Dr. Sean T. Sithole has published a new Balsillie Paper, Fintech, Financial Inclusion and Digital Remittances in Southern Africa. The paper examines how financial technology is transforming cross-border remittance systems in Southern Africa, with particular attention to the South Africa–Zimbabwe corridor. Sithole explores the growing role of mobile money, e-wallets, digital platforms […]

MiFOOD scholar Dr. Sean Sithole from University of the Western Cape in South Africa was recently featured in an episode of the Displacements: An IMRC Podcast Series, where he shared insights on the evolving role of financial technology (fintech) in shaping remittance systems and migrant livelihoods. In the episode titled “Conversation with Sean Sithole: Fintech

Researchers from the MiFOOD Network at the Institute for Social Development (ISD) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa, organised a momentous policy forum on March 26, 2026. The event brought together community leaders, researchers, service providers, individuals with policy backgrounds, and people with lived experience to translate emerging evidence

The MiFOOD Network, in partnership with the University of Nairobi (UON), convened leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in Nairobi for a two-day conference titled “Gendered Entrepreneurship & the Urban Informal Food Ecosystem: Findings from the MiFOOD Women Feeding Cities Project.” The conference that took place on February 9-11 brought together researchers from Africa, Latin America

The MiFOOD Network is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the African Journal of Governance and Development (AJGD) titled Climate Change, Mobility, and Food Systems in Africa: Intersections, Vulnerabilities, and Pathways to Resilience. The special issue brings together a collection of empirical, conceptual, and review-based papers examining how climate change is

The Women Feeding Cities (WFC) Mexico research team, based at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), convened a Policy Engagement Workshop on 11 December 2025 (10:00–13:00) in the city of Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. The workshop brought together 14 participants (12 women and 2 men), including women involved in informal food vending and a cross-section of local

The MiFOOD Network and the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) co-hosted a landmark policy forum on December 4, 2025, convening policymakers, service providers, community leaders, researchers, and people with lived experience to translate new evidence on migrant food insecurity into practical, locally relevant action. With the financial support of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research

The Women Feeding Cities (WFC) team at the University of Namibia successfully convened a Policy Engagement Workshop on 6th November 2025 at the Jose Eduardo Dos Santos UNAM Campus. The workshop brought together women informal food vendors from Oshakati, Ongwediva, and Ondangwa, along with local town council officials and academic researchers, to validate research findings

The R2 Project convened a virtual Knowledge Co-Production Workshop with leaders of Ghanaian associations from London, Toronto, and Kitchener–Waterloo on October 31, 2025. Representatives from the Ghana Association of London and Middlesex, Ghana-Canada Association of Ontario and the Ghanaian Canadian Association, Waterloo Region attended the workshop. The R2 project research team, including the project manager

On 29 September 2025, the Kingston Team of the MiFOOD network held an online workshop entitled ‘Measuring Food Security in Caribbean SIDS’. The half-day workshop was organized to reflect on measures of food security at different scales – the household, city, nation, and region, within a Caribbean context. The motivation behind the workshop arose from