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Highlights: Seasonal migration has been associated with food insecurity. Climate change, rainfall variability, and drought are the key reasons for migration. Food insecurity crises...

Highlights: We examine the continuing effects of COVID-19 and extreme weather on food security, diets, and migration attitudes in rural Guatemala. The analysis relies on a three-year...

We aimed to examine the association between women's empowerment and childhood nutritional status while accounting for the mediating role of household headship structure. Cross-country, cross-sectional quantitative...

People may avoid migrating if they cannot insure themselves against the risk of a bad outcome. Governments can reduce the consumption risk faced by migrants...

The COVID-19 pandemic has issued significant challenges to food systems and the food security of migrants in cities. In China, there have been no studies to date focusing...

Connections between labour migration and food security of left-behind households are still poorly understood. Using data from two waves of a longitudinal survey conducted among...

Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding labour division in farm households and involvement in Water Users Associations...

In this policy piece, we investigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)–food-insecurity migration channel and develop a policy agenda. The interaction between COVID-19 and the drop in economic activity will...

The first case of COVID-19 in Nepal was reported on January 23, 2020. A strict lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020, to control the spread of the disease. During...

The Government of Nigeria declared a partial lockdown in late March 2020 in the states of FCT, Lagos and Abuja, with the lockdown expanding to other states shortly afterwards. Since early June...