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Exploring the nexus between food security and migration, focusing on the Hungry Cities Partnership https://t.co/7IJAgyOe0X; SAMP https://t.co/JnR3h0rLoG; AFSUN
Joined November 2012
The latest #MiFOOD Paper investigates how the intersectionality of immobility, gender and #foodinsecurity shaped the lives of Syrian, Somali and Afghanistan refugees in the Waterloo Region, Canada, during #COVID-19 @BalsillieSIA @LaurierResearch.
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The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated the vulnerabilities of migrants and refugees in secondary cities in Canada, where the restrictive food environment and limited resources heightened...
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#MiFOOD Policy Audit No. 3 explores the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security in Canada, with a focus on immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized communities, particularly in Ontario and the Waterloo Region @BalsillieSIA @LaurierResearch
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This policy audit explores the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security in Canada, with a focus on immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized communities, particularly in Ontario and the...
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New #MiFOOD paper – Pandemic Shocks and the Food Security of Somali Migrants and Refugees in Nairobi, Kenya @BalsillieSIA @LaurierResearch .
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The COVID-19 pandemic triggered severe shocks to food security for marginalized populations in urban areas. Somali migrants and refugees in Nairobi’s Eastleigh neighbourhood faced disproportionate...
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RT @WIEGOGLOBAL: #UrbanOctober 🌆 What does an inclusive city mean for workers in informal employment dealing with the effects of the #Clima….
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RT @SERI_RightsSA: 1/ Today is #WorldFoodDay2024! We asked some of SERI's clients representing residents, informal traders, farm workers, d….
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The Wisdom and Flavours that Migrate project aims to showcase intercultural perspectives and diverse culinary experiences of international and local migrants in relation to the culinary landscape of Ecuador.
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MiFOOD team in Ecuador launches work for its Recipe and Oral History project “Sabores y Saberes que Migran” (Wisdom and flavours that migrate). This project is one of the outputs of the research and...
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RT @CChoithani: New Mi-Food working paper where I look at how the dynamics of male circular mobility play out to influence household food s….
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New MiFOOD paper – Translocal Households, Rural-Urban Links and Migrant Food Security in South Africa –draws on a survey of over 800 Eastern Cape migrants in Cape Town, conducted in 2022 @BalsillieSIA @LaurierResearch
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This paper revisits the issue of rural-urban links in post-apartheid South Africa, challenging the assumption that the end of apartheid would lead to rapid urbanization and the dissolution of...
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The MiFOOD project's latest paper is ready for download @LaurierResearch @BalsillieSIA.
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This paper examines the ways in which male circular migration as a household livelihood strategy affects food access among rural households in India. Circular male labor migration is the dominant...
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#MiFOOD Policy Audit No. 2: Impacts of COVID-19 Policy Measures on Migration and Food Security in Ecuador, by Mercedes Eguiguren and Cheryl Martens @LaurierResearch.
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First in #MiFOOD's Policy Audit Series. South Africa at War: Food Insecurity, Migrant Exclusion and COVID-19 Policies, by Jonathan Crush and Sean Sithole.@BalsillieSIA @LaurierResearch.
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The policy audit critically examines the South African government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly focusing on the militaristic enforcement of lockdowns and the resulting food...
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New #MiFOOD Paper on the impacts of COVID-19 on women in the informal food sector within the Global South. This paper, by Laeba Khan, is an output of the IDRC-NFRF-funded Women Feeding Cities Project. @BalsillieSIA @LaurierResearch
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This paper examines the abrupt and far-reaching consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on women engaged in the informal food sector within the Global South. It highlights the deepening effects of the...
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Tomorrow 10:30am-11:30am is the next webinar in the #MiFOOD series! Register here. @BalsillieSIA @LaurierResearch.
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Featuring S. Irudaya Rajan
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#MiFOOD Paper No. 25 – Responses to COVID-19 by Internal Migrants in South African Cities – explores the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on internal migrants in Cape Town and Johannesburg
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This paper explores the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on internal migrants in the urban centres of Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. Focusing on the socio-economic and livelihood...
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Zack Ahmed, a PhD candidate in Global Governance and a researcher on migration and food security with #MiFOOD Network, represented @BalsillieSIA and the World Food Forum at a side event during the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development .
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Zack Ahmed, a PhD candidate in Global Governance and a researcher on migration and food security with MiFOOD Network, recently represented BSIA and the World Food Forum (WFF) at a high-profile side...
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RT @FoodSecurity_za: Food Indaba (previously Food Dialogues) is fast approaching. From 22 July to 4 August, the CoE-FS co-sponsored program….
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Good or bad, delicious or bitter, the kitchen table is where food, economics and politics often meet – and for the past ten years, Food Dialogues has been exploring this in our complex food system in...
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New #MiFOOD Paper. Enforcement and Exclusion: #COVID19 Policies, Urban Migrants, and Food Insecurity in Pandemic South Africa, by Jonathan Crush and Sean Sithole @BalsillieSIA @LaurierResearch
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On March 5th, 2020, South Africa recorded its first official case of COVID-19 when a South African tourist returning from a holiday in northern Italy tested positive. The number of excess deaths is...
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RT @TianaBHayden: Salió mi artículo en @Journal_GFS sobre los retos que enfrentan las personas migrantes para la seguridad alimentaria en C….
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