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Hungry Cities Partnership holds the Inception Workshop online on Precarity, Exclusion and Migrant Food Insecurity in Cities of the Global South on April 20 and 21, 2022. The workshop features presentations of research projects in partner countries that address the theme of WorkStream 1 of the MiFOOD project. The workshop allows the HCP community to…

HCP Partner Marie Ruel from IFPRI Speaks at the MiFOOD Webinar Series on Measuring Food Security in the Time of COVID-19 on April 14, 2022. The presentation provides a brief overview of available indicators to measure different dimensions of food security and for different purposes, focusing on population level measurement. The webinar could be watched…

HCP’s Cameron McCordic and Bruce Frayne co-author a paper with Siera Vercillo entitled “Considering gender differences in measuring household food insecurity in northern Ghana“. The paper published in the journal Development in Practice compares estimates of household food insecurity between men and women living within the same household to assess whether there is a gender…

MiFOOD Inception Workshop on Precarity, Exclusion and Migrant Food Insecurity in Cities of the Global South is Open for Registration. MiFOOD partners from multiple cities in 13 countries will present their research projects on migration and food security in cities in the Global South. The two-day workshop aims to facilitate dialogues and community building among…

Dr. Marie Ruel from IFPRI will speak at the MiFOOD Webinar Series No. 3 about “Measuring Food Security in the Time of COVID-19“. The webinar will provide a brief overview of available indicators to measure different dimensions of food security and for different purposes, focusing on population level measurement.

HCP’s Zack Ahmed is featured in CityNews Kitchener and CBC Radio about community vaccine clinic project. The project managed by Zack Ahmed was to provide accurate information about vaccination to community members so they could make an informed choice. Through the project, six information sessions and two vaccine clinics were offered in a space that…

On March 31 2022, HCP partner Godfrey Tawodzera speaks at the MiFOOD Webinar Series on poverty and food security among Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa in the age of COVID-19. Building on recent surveys, the talk examined the food security of Zimbabwean migrants in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Study findings show that, though most migrated…

HCP’s Gareth Haysom participates in webinar on The Role of the Informal Trader in Food Safety, Sustainabilityand Security in South Africa organized by the South African Informal Traders Association (SAITA). Recording of the webinar could be watched here.

MiFOOD Partner in Singapore, Brenda Yeoh, publishes Handbook on Transnationalism. Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the…

On December 13th 2021, researchers and representatives of international organizations joined the MiFOOD team from 14 cities around the world in an online event to officially launch the MiFOOD Partnership Grant Project. The PI of MiFOOD Prof. Jonathan Crush and project manager Dr. Zhenzhong Si provided an overview of the project.  Dr. Marie Ruel, Director of the…