AGRUMIG: Migration governance and agricultural & rural change in ‘home’ communities

AGRUMIG: Migration governance and agricultural & rural change in ‘home’ communities

AGRUMIG: Migration governance and agricultural & rural change in ‘home’ communities

Governance

Funding

Horizon Europe

Geographic focus

China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Thailand

Dates

02 January 2019 –

30 January 2023

About

Migration governance solutions to stimulate sustainable and gender equitable growth in agriculture.

Key Findings

  •  Insights on economic, institutional, cultural and agro-ecological factors that mediate the outflow of labour from rural areas.
  • Identification of strategies that promote safer and more regular migration by supporting agro-livelihood systems in sending countries.
  • Analysis of governance regimes, including labour treaties and/or EU partnership agreements, national migration and/or agrarian policies, overseas aid policies, and grassroot initiatives by diasporas and/or returnees. 

Highlighted Publications and Tools

Country Policy Briefs – agricultural labour migration in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand

Coordinator

  • Alan Nicol, Principal Researcher, International Water Management Institute
  • Fraser Sugden, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Birmingham, 

Partners

  • SOAS University of London, UK
  • University of Birmingham, UK
  • International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka
  • Universitaet Wien, Vienna
  • University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
  • Institutul National de Cercetari Economice al Academiei de Stinte a Moldovei, Moldova
  • Univesita di Bologna, Italy
  • Université Mohammed V De Rabat, Morocco
  • Social Science Baha, Nepal
  • Raks Thai Foundation, Thailand
  • OSCE Academy In Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
  • Arba Minch University, Ethiopia
  • Mekelle University, Ethiopia
  • Public Union Center Polis Asia, Kyrgyzstan
 

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