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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…

QES-AS Scholar Percy Toriro publishes book Environmental Resilience: Food and the City- Zimbabwe. This book discusses the production, distribution, regulatory and management frameworks that affect food in urban settings. It plugs a gap in knowledge especially in the sub-Saharan Africa region where food, despite its critical importance, has been ignored as a ‘determinant of success’…

Jonathan Crush and Zhenzhong Si co-edited the book “Urban Food Deserts: Perspectives from the Global South” based on the Special Issue on the journal Sustainability. The book, which is now published by MDPI online, comprises 9 papers that address questions and hypotheses about the spatial dimensions of food retailing, food accessibility, food consumption and food…

QES Advanced Scholar Yuan Yuan, the HCP team at Nanjing University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs publish article on China’s supermarket revolution in the journal World Development. The paper revisits China’s “supermarket revolution” process and challenges the prediction of supermarket domination. It reveals that Nanjing’s food retailing system has been shaped by the…

Canadian Government announces results of 2021 SSHRC Partnership Grant competition and awards $2.5 million to new HCP Project on South-South Migration and Migrant Food Security in the Global South: Interactions, Impacts and Remedies (MiFood Project).  The Project expands the HCP network to an additional five countries (Ecuador, Ghana, Namibia,Qatar and Singapore) and has new institutional…

HCP QES Post-Doctoral Fellow, Percy Toriro, publishes new article on the impact of COVID-19 on the informal sector in Harare, Zimbabwe. The article examines the changing typology of informal trade under the lockdown conditions. A key finding of the study is that under a restricted trading environment, the means for carrying bulky stock and a…

Dr. Jonathan Crush, Gareth Haysom and Bruce Frayne published an article on The Conversation that calls for more studies on urban food security in the Global South.  The new HCP Handbook on Urban Food Security seeks to initiate a much needed conversation about the intersection between changes in food systems and the rapid urbanisation in…