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The MiFOOD network and the Women Feeding Cities project jointly host a workshop with the University of Namibia in Windhoek on October 16, 2023. The workshop titled “After the Pandemic: Perspectives on International Migration and Food Insecurity” showcases eight presentations highlighting cutting-edge research in the dynamic interactions between migration and food insecurity during and after […]

HCP partner Abel Chikanda presents his research on urban food insecurity in southern Africa at the Larger Lecture webinar series of McMaster University. The presentation provides an overview of the extent of food insecurity in Southern African Cities and argues for the development of the social infrastructure that support the economic activities of the urban

HCP partners Vonai Charamba, Lawrence N. Kazembe and Ndeyapo Nickanor from University of Namibia publish a paper in the journal Food Security on the application of item response theory modelling to measure an aggregate food security access score. The study proposes a composite food insecurity indicator by aggregating items from Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS),

The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) and the MiFOOD Project recently participated in the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) at York University, Toronto. This event was part of the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The theme of the CAFS conference was ‘Reckonings, Reimaginings, and Reconciliations, Within and Through

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

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