HCP partner Taiyang Zhong from Nanjing University (China) coauthors a paper with Qi Shen in the journal Foods. The paper entitled “Did Household Income Loss Have an Immediate Impact on Animal-Source Foods Consumption during the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Pandemic?” conducts an empirical study on the linkage between income loss and animal-source foods consumption […]
Yi-Shin Chang coauthors paper entitled “Governing for food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan and Nanjing, China” with HCP partners Zhenzhong Si, Jonathan Crush, Steffanie Scott and Taiyang Zhong. The paper is published in the journal Urban Governance. It draws on survey findings from the HCP project “Assessing and Mitigating the Food Security Consequences
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HCP partners Elizabeth Onyango, Jonathan Crush and Samuel Owuor publish a paper titled “Food Insecurity and Dietary Deprivation: Migrant Households in Nairobi, Kenya” in the journal Nutrients. The paper examined whether migrant households are more likely to experience inferior diets, low dietary diversity, and increased dietary deprivation than their local counterparts. Second, it assesses whether
HCP Partner Ndeyapo Nickanor, Godfrey Tawodzera and Lawrence Kazembe coauthor a paper titled “The Threat of COVID-19 on Food Security: A Modelling Perspective of Scenarios in the Informal Settlements in Windhoek“. The paper published on the journal Land quantitatively assessed the effects of the Namibia government’s lockdown control measures on food insecurity in urban informal
HCP partner Taiyang Zhong from Nanjing University coauthors a paper with Yajia Liang about community-level grassroots organizations on household food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. The paper published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction examined the relationship between community-level grassroots organizations and household food insecurity based on an online survey of
MiFOOD Paper No. 6 “Incomplete Documentation, Isolation and Food Security among Central American Migrants in Mexico City” authored by MiFOOD collaborator Tiana Bakić Hayden is now published online. The paper examines some of the factors that contribute to food insecurity among the growing populations of Central American migrants who reside in Mexico City. It contributes
MiFOOD publishes Paper No. 5: Migrant Women’s Food Insecurity Experiences in the Breadbasket of Ghana. It is coauthored by Jemima Nomunume Baada, Moses Kansanga, Joseph Kangmennaang and MiFOOD collaborator Isaac Luginaah. The paper employs generalized linear latent and mixed models (gllamm) to examine the key determinants of the food insecurity experiences of migrant women in
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MiFOOD Collaborator Chetan Choithani publishes new book “Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India“. The book published by Cambridge University Press examines the role of migration as a livelihood strategy in influencing food access among rural households. Migration forms a key component of livelihoods for an increasing number of rural households in many
HCP’s Cameron McCordic and Bruce Frayne coauthor new paper with Naomi Sunu and Clare Williamson which is entitled “The Household Food Security Implications of Disrupted Access to Basic Services in Five Cities in the Global South”. The paper is published on the journal Land. It proposes a method for building a multidimensional index of urban
HCP’s Liam Riley and Jonathan Crush (editors) publish the book “Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa“. This open-access book is a product of the Food, Urbanization, Environment and Livelihoods (FUEL) Project of the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN) funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
