Migration, Food Security and Nutrition in the Kyrgyz Republic, December 2021 [EN/RU] – Kyrgyzstan

This transient goals as an example the linkages between migration, meals safety and diet by highlighting the significance of remittances in relieving poverty and meals insecurity and the affect on diet.

The Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked nation in Central Asia, with an economic system closely reliant on labour migration and remittances, which in flip affect the poverty and meals safety state of affairs within the nation by means of a number of channels. Moreover remittances, migration contributes to communities’ resilience and improvement, and can also be an necessary technique utilized by households to deal with revenue uncertainty and meals insecurity dangers.

A analysis on the socioeconomic results of COVID-19 on returnees in The Kyrgyz Republic discovered that the COVID-19 pandemic has had unfavorable impacts on migrants and their households with border closures and non permanent enterprise shutdowns, lowering their choices for income-generation actions and subsequently leaving them extra meals insecure. Returned migrants are liable to turning into meals insecure as they haven’t solely decreased their meals consumption, but in addition compromised on meals high quality. Trying on the adoption of unfavorable coping methods associated to meals and belongings, specific consideration ought to be dedicated to the meals safety of households with members presently in migration and with returned migrants. The COVID-19 disaster additionally highlighted the hole in social safety protection of migrants and their households, as many casual migrant employees didn’t have entry to social safety schemes upon job or revenue loss.

In response, IOM and WFP see alternatives for catalytic cooperation to enhance meals safety of migrants and their households and raise them out of poverty. By means of higher employment alternatives, expertise coaching, and monetary inclusion of migrants and their households and thru common analysis and monitoring on migration, meals safety and diet, IOM and WFP collectively envision socioeconomic stability and prosperity within the Kyrgyz Republic.