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Team members of the Women Feeding Cities project attend the Mid-term Forum of NFRF-2022

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 […]

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MiFOOD researchers publish new paper on migrant remittances during the COVID-19 pandemic

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

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MiFOOD researcher Zack Ahmed addresses global audience at HLPF side event on the food security and nutrition in the world

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,

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MiFOOD partner in India reveals findings of migration trends in Kerala Migration Survey

Prof. S. Irudaya Rajan, the lead of the MiFOOD team in India, has unveiled findings from the Kerala Migration Survey 2023, conducted by the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation with support from MiFOOD partner, the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD). The survey was conducted with 20,000 households across Kerala. The Kerala Migration

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New Project on Migration and Climate Adaptation

The MiFOOD Network and the Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) are delighted to announce the award of a new three-year project grant by the Government of Canada through the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)’s 2023 International Joint Initiative for Research in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Competition. This $2.4 million grant entitled “Remitting for Resilience

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MiFOOD researchers in Singapore publish new paper on migrant domestic workers and transnational foodcare chains

MiFOOD researchers in Singapore publish a new paper titled “Migrant domestic workers and transnational foodcare chains in pandemic times” in the journal Geographical Research. Drawing on migrant women’s experiences during the pandemic, as they sought to secure access to food for themselves and for left-behind children and family members in Indonesia and the Philippines, the

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MiFOOD researchers contribute to newly published “Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19”

MiFOOD researchers contribute to the newly published book “Research Handbook on Migration, Gender and COVID-19” that investigates the immediate and longer-term implications of the pandemic on gender dynamics and roles in international migration. The book edited by Marie McAuliffe and Céline Bauloz is part of the “Elgar Handbooks in Migration” series. Chapters contributed by MiFOOD

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MiFOOD team in Ecuador organized the workshop and photo exhibit “Migration and Food (In)Security: Resilient Narratives and Post-pandemic Memory”

The MiFOOD team in Ecuador organized the workshop and photo exhibit “Migration and Food (In)Security: Resilient Narratives and Post-pandemic Memory”. The project team presented the results from the first year of the MiFOOD Quito project and inauguration of the photo exhibition “Migration and Food Insecurity: Resilient Narratives and Post-Pandemic Memory” in the Centre for Contemporary

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