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  • Equity and justice should underpin the discourse on tipping points 
    Gianelli, Ignacio; Achieng, Therezah; Amon, Diva; Archibald, Sally; Arif, Suchinta; Castro, Azucena; Chimbadzwa, Tapiwa Prosper; Coetzer, Kaera L.; Field, Tracy-Lynn; Selomane, Odirilwe; Slingsby, Jasper A.; Stevens, Nicola; Villasante, Sebastian; Armani, Mohammed; Kimuyu, Duncan M.; Adewumi, Ibukun J.; Lapola, David M.; Obura, David; Pinho, Patricia; Roa-Clavijo, Felipe; Rocha, Juan; Sumaila, U. Rashid (Copernicus Publications, 2024-04)
    Radical and quick transformations towards sustainability will be fundamental to achieving a more sustainable future. However, deliberate interventions to reconfigure systems will result in winners and losers, with the ...
  • Consumers' willingness-to-pay for dairy and plant-based milk alternatives towards sustainable dairy : a scoping review 
    Madududu, Pamela; Jourdain, Damien; Tran, Duc; Degieter, Margo; Karuaihe, Selma Tuemumunu; Ntuli, Herbert; De Steur, Hans (Elsevier, 2024-11)
    The dairy sector is transforming following growing concerns over sustainability, propelling innovations such as plant-based milk alternatives (PBMAs). Researchers have shown increasing interest in conducting studies on ...
  • Empirical analysis of drought-induced cattle destocking in South Africa 
    Nketiah, Prince; Ntuli, Herbert (AOSIS, 2024-03)
    Destocking as a drought mitigation strategy exposes smallholder cattle farmers to adverse effects, including the distortion of farm planning and income loss, as cattle are sold off regardless of the market price. Factors ...
  • Ten new insights in climate science 2023 
    Bustamante, Mercedes; Roy, Joyashree; Ospina, Daniel; Achakulwisut, Ploy; Aggarwal, Anubha; Bastos, Ana; Broadgate, Wendy; Canadell, Josep G.; Carr, Edward R.; Chen, Deliang; Cleugh, Helen A.; Ebi, Kristie L.; Edwards, Clea; Farbotko, Carol; Fernandez-Martinez, Marcos; Frolicher, Thomas L.; Fuss, Sabine; Geden, Oliver; Gruber, Nicolas; Harrington, Luke J.; Hauck, Judith; Hausfather, Zeke; Hebden, Sophie; Hebinck, Aniek; Huq, Saleemul; Huss, Matthias; Jamero, M. Laurice P.; Juhola, Sirkku; Kumarasinghe, Nilushi; Lwasa, Shuaib; Mallick, Bishawjit; Martin, Maria; McGreevy, Steven; Mirazo, Paula; Mukherji, Aditi; Muttitt, Greg; Nemet, Gregory F.; Obura, David; Okereke, Chukwumerije; Oliver, Tom; Orlove, Ben; Ouedraogo, Nadia S.; Patra, Prabir K.; Pelling, Mark; Pereira, Laura M.; Persson, Asa; Pongratz, Julia; Prakash, Anjal; Rammig, Anja; Raymond, Colin; Redman, Aaron; Reveco, Cristobal; Rockstrom, Johan; Regina Rodrigues; Rounce, David R.; Schipper, E. Lisa F.; Schlosser, Peter; Selomane, Odirilwe; Semieniuk, Gregor; Shin, Yunne-Jai; Siddiqui, Tasneem A.; Singh, Vartika; Sioen, Giles B.; Sokona, Youba; Stammer, Detlef; Steinert, Norman J.; Suk, Sunhee; Sutton, Rowan; Thalheimer, Lisa; Thompson, Vikki; Trencher, Gregory; Van der Geest, Kees; Werners, Saskia E.; Wubbelmann, Thea; Wunderling, Nico; Yin, Jiabo; Zickfeld, Kirsten; Zscheischler, Jakob (Cambridge University Press, 2023-12)
    NON-TECHNICHAL SUMMARY. We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability and implications of overshooting ...
  • Community perceptions on land and water acquisitions in the Okavango Delta : implications for rural livelihoods 
    Phonchi-Tshekiso, Nametso Dorothy; Slingsby, Jasper A.; Selomane, Odirilwe (Taylor and Francis, 2024)
    Large-scale land acquisitions in Africa are increasing, reported often as the transfers of land for food and biofuel crop production. Only reporting agricultural acquisitions underplays potential impacts of other forms of ...
  • Food policy analyses and prioritisation of food systems to achieve safer food for South Africa 
    Dama, Tshilidzi Isaac; Loki, Olwethu; Fitawek, Wegayehu; Mpuzu, Sikwela M. (Elsevier, 2024-12)
    Food safety has become an important international public health and economic issue since the first and only publication of global estimates on the burden of food borne diseases by the World Food Organisation in 2015. The ...
  • What does a just transition mean for urban biodiversity? Insights from three cities globally 
    Mabon, Leslie; Layard, Antonia; De Vito, Laura; Few, Roger; Hatzisavvidou, Sophia; Shackleton, Charlie; Marshall, Adam; Marciniak, Gilles; Moersberger, Hannah (Elsevier, 2024-08)
    Just transitions – responses to environmental change that minimise negative impacts on the most affected people and places, while ensuring nobody is left behind – are gaining scholarly and policy significance in areas ...
  • In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic : perceived risks, management strategies and emerging opportunities for small and medium agri-food enterprises in a developing country 
    Hatab, Assem Abu; Owusu-Sekyere, Enoch; Esmat, Abou-Rehab; Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan (Elsevier, 2023-10)
    The Covid-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to small- and medium-sized agrifood enterprises (SMAEs) in developing countries. However, research investigating what risks Covid-19 posed to these firms, how they ...
  • The effect of land tenure across food security outcomes among smallholder farmers using a flexible conditional difference-in-difference approach 
    Ibrahim, Hussain Kobe; Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Schonfeldt, H.C. (Hettie Carina) (Taylor and Francis, 2023-06-13)
    The paucity of literature on the influence of land tenure across a range of food insecurity outcomes may impede a complete analysis in developing countries. This paper examines the association between land tenure and ...
  • The true cost of food : a preliminary sssessment 
    Hendriks, Sheryl L.; De Groot Ruiz, Adrian; Herrero Acosta, Mario; Baumers, Hans; Galgani, Pietro; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Godde, Cecile; Waha, Katharina; Kanidou, Dimitra; Von Braun, Joachim; Benitez, Mauricio; Blanke, Jennifer; Caron, Patrick; Fanzo, Jessica; Greb, Friederike; Haddad, Lawrence; Herforth, Anna; Jordaan, Daniel Du Plessis Scheepers; Masters, William A.; Sadoff, Claudia; Soussana, Jean-François; Tirado, Maria Cristina; Torero, Maximo; Watkins, Matthew (Springer, 2023-01)
    Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing their environmental and health costs while making healthy and sustainable food affordable to all. One of the central problems of current food systems is that many ...
  • Policy options for food system transformation in Africa and the role of science, technology and innovation 
    Badiane, Ousmane; Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Glatzel, Katrin; Abdelradi, Fadi; Admassie, Assefa; Adjaye, John Asafu; Ayieko, Miltone; Bekele, Endashaw; Chaibi, Thameur; Hassan, Mohamed Hag Ali; Mbaye, Mame Samba; Mengoub, Fatima Ezzahra; Miano, Douglas W.; Muyonga, John H.; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; Ramadan, Racha; Sibanda, Simbarashe (Springer, 2023-01)
    As recognized by the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa – 2024 (STISA-2024), science, technology and innovation (STI) offer many opportunities for addressing the main constraints to embracing transformation ...
  • Ensuring access to safe and nutritious food for all through the transformation of food systems 
    Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Soussana, Jean-François; Cole, Martin; Kambugu, Andrew; Zilberman, David (Springer, 2023-01)
    Action Track 1 of the Food Systems Summit offers an opportunity to bring together the crucial elements of food safety, nutrition, poverty and inequalities in the framework of food systems within the context of climate and ...
  • Healthy diet : a definition for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 
    Neufeld, Lynnette M.; Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Hugas, Marta (Springer, 2023-01)
    The aim of this chapter is to propose a definition of “healthy diets” and provide related evidence, thus permitting the alignment of terminology for the Food Systems Summit and beyond. Diets are combinations of foods ...
  • The cost and affordability of preparing a basic meal around the world 
    Masters, William A.; Martinez, Elena M.; Greb, Friederike; Herforth, Anna; Hendriks, Sheryl L. (Springer, 2023-01)
    All countries have a rising burden of diet-related disease from the consumption of unhealthy foods. About three billion people around the world cannot afford the diverse foods needed for a healthy diet. This chapter aims ...
  • Knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) of smallholder farmers towards cassava production in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa 
    Ngobeni, Light (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-07)
    Cassava is a global source of carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals, and it thrives in dry and infertile soil. Its resilience makes it suitable to mitigate climate change and reduce food insecurity. The crop is primarily ...
  • Recalibration of benchmarks is necessary : even the most basic meal was not affordable for Malawi's poor between 2017 and 2021 
    Bwanaisa, Mercy; Hendriks, Sheryl L. (Frontiers Media, 2023-07-13)
    Dietary quality has significant implications for health, nutrition and life quality. Yet, most people in developing countries, such as Malawi, consume inadequate diets due to the high cost of healthy and nutritious food. ...
  • Analysing South Africa's food security environment based on the 2022 Global Food Security Index score and rank 
    Marguerite, Nel (University of Pretoria, 2024-02)
    A report issued by the FAO has warned that, on a global scale, most nations are not progressing towards the achievement of the goal to eliminate hunger before the end of the year 2030, as outlined in the Sustainable ...
  • Participatory pathways to the sustainable development goals : inviting divergent perspectives through a cross-scale systems approach 
    Collste, David; Aguiar, Ana Paula D.; Harmackova, Zuzana V.; Galafassi, Diego; Pereira, Laura M.; Selomane, Odirilwe; Van Der Leeuw, Sander (IOP Publishing, 2023-05-24)
    The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include social and ecological goals for humanity. Navigating towards reaching the goals requires the systematic inclusion of perspectives from a diversity of voices. ...
  • Sanctioned quotas versus information provisioning for community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe : a framed field experiment approach 
    Ntuli, Herbert; Crepin, Anne‑Sophie; Schill, Caroline; Muchapondwa, Edwin (Springer, 2023-03)
    We investigate the behavioural responses of natural common-pool resource users to three policy interventions—sanctioned quotas, information provisioning, and a combination of both. We focus on situations in which users ...
  • Impact of solar energy subscription on the market performance of micro, small & medium enterprises in Nigeria 
    Owusu-Sekyere, Enoch; Cissé, Fatoumata Nankoto; Achandi, Esther Leah (Elsevier, 2024-05)
    Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy is a major developmental challenge in Africa. The present study investigates the determinants and impact of adopting solar energy on Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) ...