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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

The MiFOOD Network hosted its first-ever Research and Writing Workshop from August 5–8, 2025, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. Designed as a creative and immersive capacity-building event, it brought together MiFOOD researchers from Canada, Namibia, Mozambique, Jamaica, Ecuador, Mexico, and South Africa to sharpen research and writing skills, learn new

On July 31, 2025, the MiFOOD Network hosted a half-day workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, bringing together researchers from Canada, South Africa, and China to share recent findings on the intersection of migration, food security, and resilience in the face of global disruptions. Cohosted by the MiFOOD Network, the

From July 28 to 30, MiFOOD team members participated in the 6th International Conference on Canadian, Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization (ICCCASU) in Ottawa. Under the theme “Humanizing Urbanization: Housing, Livelihoods, and Resilient Cities in a Changing World,” the conference brought together global voices to explore inclusive, people-centered approaches to urban development. The MiFOOD Network

MiFOOD partner and IIMAD Director Prof. S. Irudaya Rajan edits the newly released Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities (Edward Elgar, 2024). This Handbook which includes 37 chapters explores the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant populations such as international students, refugees, undocumented migrants and informal urban workers. It examines how migration and urbanization have

MiFOOD partner Cecilia Tacoli is the lead editor of the newly published Handbook on Rural-Urban Linkages in the Global South (Edward Elgar, 2025). The book offers a comprehensive review of how, in rapidly urbanizing low- and middle-income countries, the links between rural and urban areas, people and enterprises are becoming increasingly intense and complex. With a focus

A highlight of the 4th Annual MiFOOD Conference in Mexico City was the launch of the new open access volume New Directions in South-South Migration, edited by Jonathan Crush, Sujata Ramachandran, and Abel Chikanda. The book offers a timely and critical contribution to the growing body of work on migration within the Global South, with

The MiFOOD Network has just published Research Briefs No. 14, 15, and 16 in its ongoing Research Brief series, which is designed to make research findings from the network accessible quickly. Research Brief No. 14 explores how Somali migrants in Nairobi’s Eastleigh neighborhood, often called “Little Mogadishu”, rely on community support and informal trade to