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 (R2): Enhancing Food Security and Climate Adaptation Through Gender-Inclusive Migrant Remittances” will support our ongoing efforts to address the intersecting themes of remittances, rural-urban links, food security, and (im)mobility.
The R2 grant will enable the HCP and MiFOOD team to respond to international calls to enhance adaptive capacities and resilience-building strategies to address the risks of climate change to food security, rural and urban livelihoods, and human mobility in Africa. The objectives of the project include:
- coproducing and mobilizing knowledge about the role of migration and remittances in rural and urban resilience to climate change;
- identifying adaptation strategies for enhancing remittance infrastructure resilience and leveraging remittances for reduced food insecurity among migrants and sending communities;
- building capacity of research partners, local communities, migrant groups, and agencies in mobilizing remittances for climate adaptation.
Working with migrant associations and local communities in rural and urban study sites in partner countries, R2 employs an interdisciplinary and trans-sectoral approach to achieve these objectives. It aims to develop action-oriented climate adaptation plans for vulnerable groups through ten case studies of international and internal corridors that involve both urban migrant destinations and rural migrant-origin communities in marginal environments.
The R2 team comprises 42 researchers and collaborators from eight countries including Canada, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and the UK. The team will collaborate closely with community organizations in Africa, Canada and the UK who work with and for vulnerable groups in the migrant origin and destination sites in the project’s various migration and remittance corridors.
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