Zhenzhong Si

HCP’s Cameron McCordic and Bruce Frayne co-author a paper with Siera Vercillo entitled “Considering gender differences in measuring household food insecurity in northern Ghana“. The paper published in the journal Development in Practice compares estimates of household food insecurity between men and women living within the same household to assess whether there is a gender […]

Dr. Marie Ruel from IFPRI will speak at the MiFOOD Webinar Series No. 3 about “Measuring Food Security in the Time of COVID-19“. The webinar will provide a brief overview of available indicators to measure different dimensions of food security and for different purposes, focusing on population level measurement.

HCP’s Zack Ahmed is featured in CityNews Kitchener and CBC Radio about community vaccine clinic project. The project managed by Zack Ahmed was to provide accurate information about vaccination to community members so they could make an informed choice. Through the project, six information sessions and two vaccine clinics were offered in a space that

On March 31 2022, HCP partner Godfrey Tawodzera speaks at the MiFOOD Webinar Series on poverty and food security among Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa in the age of COVID-19. Building on recent surveys, the talk examined the food security of Zimbabwean migrants in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Study findings show that, though most migrated

HCP’s Gareth Haysom participates in webinar on The Role of the Informal Trader in Food Safety, Sustainabilityand Security in South Africa organized by the South African Informal Traders Association (SAITA). Recording of the webinar could be watched here

MiFOOD Partner in Singapore, Brenda Yeoh, publishes Handbook on Transnationalism. Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the

On December 13th 2021, researchers and representatives of international organizations joined the MiFOOD team from 14 cities around the world in an online event to officially launch the MiFOOD Partnership Grant Project. The PI of MiFOOD Prof. Jonathan Crush and project manager Dr. Zhenzhong Si provided an overview of the project.  Dr. Marie Ruel, Director of the

QES-AS Scholar Percy Toriro publishes book Environmental Resilience: Food and the City- Zimbabwe. This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a ‘determinant of success’

Jonathan Crush and Zhenzhong Si co-edited the book “Urban Food Deserts: Perspectives from the Global South” based on the Special Issue on the journal Sustainability. The book, which is now published by MDPI online, comprises 9 papers that address questions and hypotheses about the spatial dimensions of food retailing, food accessibility, food consumption and food