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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