The Partnership
The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) is an international network of partner organizations which focuses on the relationships between rapid urbanization, urban food systems and migration in the Global South.
The HCP conducts collaborative research, training and advocacy with the objective of providing innovative solutions to the challenge of building sustainable cities and policies and programs that promote food security in migrant origin and destination communities and corridors.
Between 2014 and 2020, HCP operated in China, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique and South Africa and was funded by the International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies (IPaSS) program of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). In 2021, HCP was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Grant for a new seven-year project entitled South-South Migration and Migrant Food Security in the Global South (the MiFOOD Project). New HCP partner countries include Ecuador, Ghana, Namibia, Qatar and Singapore. New international partners include the FAO, IFPRI, ILO, IOM, MIDEQ and SDSN.
News
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MiFOOD’s Ndeyapo Nickanor of the University of Namibia is featured in the BBC Program, The Food Chain: How to Feed a City
Street vendors selling spinach and other fresh produce at Havana informal market in Windhoek, Namibia, talk to Dr Nickanor in this BBC episode. She also explains the challenges faced by street vendors and market traders…
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MiFOOD Workshop “Migration, Food Security and Crisis Management in the Gulf”
The MiFOOD workshop Migration, Food Security and Crisis Management in the Gulf, held in partnership with Hamid Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, featured lead researchers in the field of migration and food security. This was…
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HCP director Jonathan Crush and partner Godfrey Tawodzera publish SAMP Migration Policy Series Report on pandemic remittance shocks and resilience
HCP director Jonathan Crush and partner Godfrey Tawodzera publish SAMP Migration Policy Series No. 86 on “Pandemic Remittance Shocks and Resilience in the South Africa–Zimbabwe Migration Corridor”. Building on survey data, the report tests the…
MiFOOD Papers
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MiFOOD Paper No. 13: Supermarkets in Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan Area: Logics of Territorial Insertion and Socio-Spatial Inequalities
The paper analyzes the logics of expansion and spatial distribution of supermarkets at three scales: global,…
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MiFOOD Paper No. 12: Rural-Urban Transition and Food Security in India
As a growing proportion of world’s population lives in cities and towns, food security is increasingly…
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MiFOOD Paper No. 11: An Exploratory Study of the Food Security of Displaced Venezuelans in Ecuadorian Cities During COVID-19
The displacement of over 7 million Venezuelans is reconfiguring urban contexts in Latin America. Ecuador is…
Hungry Cities Papers
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HCP Discussion Paper No. 58: Wild Foods, the Nutrition Transition and Urban Food Security in Northern Namibia
Rapid urbanization and food system transformation in Africa have been accompanied by growing food insecurity, reduced…
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HCP Discussion Paper No. 57: Pandemic Precarity and Food Insecurity in Urban Ghana During COVID-19
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban households in the Global South has not yet…
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HCP Discussion Paper No. 56: Towards a New Food Security Index for Urban Household Food Security
The multidimensionality of food security can confound both statistical modelling and clear policy narratives. That complexity…
