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MiFOOD researchers contribute to newly published “Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19”

MiFOOD researchers contribute to the newly published book "Research Handbook on Migration, Gender and COVID-19" that investigates the immediate and longer-term implications of the pandemic ...
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MiFOOD team in Ecuador organized the workshop and photo exhibit “Migration and Food (In)Security: Resilient Narratives and Post-pandemic Memory”

The MiFOOD team in Ecuador organized the workshop and photo exhibit "Migration and Food (In)Security: Resilient Narratives and Post-pandemic Memory". The project team presented the ...
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The MiFOOD website is officially launched

On Feb 21, 2024, the MiFOOD network launched its new website mifood.org. The Director of MiFOOD, Prof. Jonathan Crush and research manager Zhenzhong Si gave ...
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MiFOOD researchers contribute to newly published “Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19”

MiFOOD researchers contribute to the newly published book "Research Handbook on Migration, Gender and COVID-19" that investigates the immediate and longer-term implications of the pandemic ...
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MiFOOD team in Ecuador organized the workshop and photo exhibit “Migration and Food (In)Security: Resilient Narratives and Post-pandemic Memory”

The MiFOOD team in Ecuador organized the workshop and photo exhibit "Migration and Food (In)Security: Resilient Narratives and Post-pandemic Memory". The project team presented the ...

LATEST MiFOOD PAPERS

South-South Migration, Pandemic Precarity, and the Informal Food Sector in South Africa

Jonathan Crush and Godfrey Tawodzera

The analysis of COVID-19 pandemic precarity in Africa should focus on the ways in which pre-pandemic migrant vulnerabilities were reconfigured in ways that weakened economic resiliency and reinforced disadvantage. This is the first paper to apply the concept of pandemic precarity to the impact of COVID-19 on migrants working in the informal food sector of African cities. The paper develops…

Evolving Food Security Challenges Facing Internal Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Cities

Zhenzhong Si and Taiyang Zhong

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly exacerbated the economic, social and political vulnerabilities of internal and international migrants and increased their food insecurity in several cities of the Global South. So far, very little attention has been paid to the dynamics of internal migrants’ food security in urban China since the emergence of the pandemic. Based on the results of an…

International Migration and Food Insecurity in Urban Namibia

Lawrence Kazembe, Godfrey Tawodzera and Ndeyapo Nickanor

Food security and migration have emerged as key development challenges in Namibia. Internal migration, where people move from rural areas to urban centres such as the capital, Windhoek, has been given a great deal of research and policy attention. However, there is a dearth of research on the relationship between international migration and food security in the country. This paper…

LATEST MiFOOD PAPERS

South-South Migration, Pandemic Precarity, and the Informal Food Sector in South Africa

Jonathan Crush and Godfrey Tawodzera

The analysis of COVID-19 pandemic precarity in Africa should focus on the ways in which pre-pandemic migrant vulnerabilities were reconfigured in ways that weakened economic resiliency and reinforced disadvantage. This is the first paper to apply the concept of pandemic precarity to the impact of COVID-19 on migrants working in the informal food sector of African cities. The paper develops…

Evolving Food Security Challenges Facing Internal Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chinese Cities

Zhenzhong Si and Taiyang Zhong

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly exacerbated the economic, social and political vulnerabilities of internal and international migrants and increased their food insecurity in several cities of the Global South. So far, very little attention has been paid to the dynamics of internal migrants’ food security in urban China since the emergence of the pandemic. Based on the results of an…

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