The Dual Impact of Immigration and Refugee Movements on Food Security: Challenges, Contributions, and Sustainable Strategies

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The Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration can significantly impact human mobility. Food security is a priority for migrants in transit, and humanitarian aid recognizes food access as lacking in displacement situations. Migrants face difficulties during mobility periods, increasing their health risks. Food security affects health and well-being and is essential to the human right to adequate living standards. Climate change and food system neo-liberalization have increased food insecurity and hunger, creating more nutritionally vulnerable displaced people. Refugee inflows affect food security and resilience of host communities in developing countries. Allowing refugees formal work leads to self-reliance, improved living standards, better labor outcomes for natives, higher tax revenues, and economic productivity. Global refugee numbers have increased, with Sub-Saharan Africa hosting one-third. Strategies for food security include increasing production, reducing waste, addressing changing diets, and improving consumer behavior through education and healthier processed foods. Balancing growing food demand with limited production capacity is crucial for food security. Keyword: Food security, Refugee migration, Sustainable Strategies.