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Explore our work

Several of our team members have been involved in longstanding work on questions of food security, health and migration in Zimbabwe and among the Zimbabwean diaspora. This work has been shaped by years of research made possible through the generous support of numerous funders, including UKRI's AHRC, BBSRC, and NIHR. We have linked some of the publications resulting from this work below.

If you have any thoughts or reflections on the work, please do reach out. We would love to hear from you.

This includes some of our recent publications from our long-standing research focusing on Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwean diaspora:

  • Datta, K.; Brown, T.; Mutambasera (2024) ‘Road runners’ and Fanta: Intersectional cultural food in/security among Zimbabwean migrants living in UK cities - ScienceDirect;  Global Food Security. 43, 100805, 1-6.
  • Brown, T., Datta, K. et al, (2024) ‘Caring for children with SAM: Intersectional stories of shame, blame and stigmatisation in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya, Global Public Health; DOI: Full article: Caring for children with SAM: Intersectional stories of shame, blame and stigmatisation in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya
  • Brown, T.; Datta, K. et al (2024) Convalescing from SAM: The pitfalls and possibilities of caring for vulnerable children in Harare’s high-density neighbourhoods, Social Science and Medicine, 359, 1-9.
  • Datta, K.; Brown, T. and Mutambasere, T. (2024) Migration, food (in)security and the Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from the Global South and North, in in N. Piper and K. Datta (Eds) Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Chagwena DT, Fernando S, Tavengwa NV, Sithole S, Nyachowe C, Njovo H, Datta K, Brown T et al. (2023) Formulation and acceptability of local nutrient‐dense foods for young children: A formative study for the Child Health, Agriculture and Integrated Nutrition (CHAIN) Trial in rural Zimbabwe. Maternal and Child Nutrition; 10.1111/mcn.13605
  • Smith LE, Chagwena DT, Bourke C, Robertson R, Fernando S, Tavengwa NV, Cairns J, Ndhlela T et al. (2022) Child Health, Agriculture and Integrated Nutrition (CHAIN): protocol for a randomised controlled trial of improved infant and young child feeding in rural Zimbabwe. BMJ Open vol. 12, (12) 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056435.
  • Brown, T.; Datta, K. and Fernando, S. (2022) Gender, caring work, and the embodiment of kufungisisa: promoting mental health in rural Zimbabwe, Health and Place, 78: DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102935.

Jacqueline Kabongo, Tim Brown, Kavita Datta, Mutsa BwakuraDangarembizi (2023). Co-SAM Home Environment working paper. Report 1: Rapid appraisal of the home environment during convalescence for children with severe acute malnutrition: Key findings from Harare, Zimbabwe.

Related policy publications from the wider MiFood team.

You may also be interested in these short podcasts from the MiFood team which explain some of the core concepts and challenges we are looking at in the R2 project.

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