The MiFOOD Network is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the African Journal of Governance and Development (AJGD) titled Climate Change, Mobility, and Food Systems in Africa: Intersections, Vulnerabilities, and Pathways to Resilience. The special issue brings together a collection of empirical, conceptual, and review-based papers examining how climate change is reshaping food systems, human mobility, and household food security across Africa.
Edited by the director of MiFOOD, Professor Jonathan Crush and Professor Mulugeta F. Dinbabo from University of the Western Cape, the special issue includes case studies and analyses from Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Nigeria, alongside continent-wide perspectives. Key themes include climate-induced internal migration and displacement, urban food system transformations, diaspora finance and remittances as emerging sources of resilience, gendered vulnerabilities and agency, and the governance gaps shaping food insecurity outcomes. Several contributions demonstrate how reactive disaster management, weak institutional coordination, and the neglect of informal systems can exacerbate vulnerability rather than support resilience.
The papers call for moving beyond siloed policy approaches to climate change, migration, and food security. Drawing on diverse methods and lived experiences, the authors argue for governance frameworks that recognise mobility as a central dimension of food security, integrate gender and social inequalities into adaptation planning, and bridge formal and informal systems of finance, food provision, and social protection.
The papers were first presented at a conference organised by the Remitting for Resilience (R2) Project of the MiFOOD Network at the University of the Western Cape. The R2 Project and the special issue were funded by Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
The special issue is published as Volume 14, Issue 1.2 (December 2025) and is available open access via the African Journal of Governance and Development.