The ability of farmers to operate redistributed farms in a profitable and sustainable manner
is crucial for both successful integration into agricultural value chains and sustainable production
systems. The performance ...
Achieving food and nutrition security and ending hunger is a complex and multi-faceted global challenge, which requires urgent attention, particularly in Africa. To eliminate hunger, the continent needs to transition to ...
May, Julian; Mentz-Coetzee, Melody(MDPI, 2021-09-28)
The COVID-19 pandemic heightened awareness that serious illness and injury are common
and important shocks that result in food insecurity, the loss of livelihoods, and unsustainable coping
strategies. These have significant ...
The COVID-19 pandemic provides both a warning
about agri-food systems’ (AFS) functioning and an
accelerator for AFS innovation. It revealed both the
increasing frequency of extreme events and structural
shortcomings ...
Mkandawire, Elizabeth; Mentz-Coetzee, Melody; Mangheni, Margaret Najjingo; Barusi, Eleonora(MDPI, 2021-07-31)
Globally, gender inequalities constrain food security, with women often disproportionately
affected. Women play a fundamental role in household food and nutrition security. The multiple roles
women play in various areas ...
Green bonds have recently emerged as a financing instrument with significant potential for funding green projects. However, Kenyan issuers have been slow in issuing green bonds despite there being multiplicity of bankable ...
Okunade, Samuel Kehinde; Faluyi, Olumuyiwa Temitope; Matambo, Emmanuel(Routledge, 2021)
Insurgency has gained prominence in Africa. It is usually associated with marginalisation, poverty, and inequality and often has religious links and bases. Insurgency frequently originates in communities situated along the ...
Phadi, Moses; Vale, Peter Christopher Julius(Transformation, 2020)
The rise of African liberation parties to power in the 1960s brought to the fore ‘questions about the role and position of the African state’ (Doornbos 1990:179, also see Mamdani 1996, Amin 1972). Leaders of newly independent ...
Amidst renewed interest in the psychiatric writings of Frantz Fanon, this article reads his work against the background of contemporary mental health advocacy and scholarship. Epitomized in the emergent field of Mad Studies, ...
Vale, Peter Christopher Julius; Mare, Gerhard(Public Affairs Research Institute, 2020-12)
Some years ago, one of us raised an abstract point with one of the denizens
of South Africa’s policy community. The aim was not to expose the issue at
hand to the rich array of thinking theoretically that has flourished ...
Okunade, Samuel Kehinde; Ogunnubi, Olusola(Wiley, 2022-08)
Since 2009, the North-Eastern part of Nigeria has been engulfed with the scourge of Boko Haram attacks leading to a severe humanitarian crisis and food insecurity within the region. Studies have shown that in the various ...
This article explores how mission, forgiveness, and reconciliation have shaped the ministry and work of Desmond Tutu. As much as space permits, it tries to glean the ways in which Tutu has lived out his understanding of ...
Discussions around the militarisation of conservation have largely focused on violence meted out against subsistence and commercial poachers in, and around, protected areas. Overlooked is violence experienced by perpetrators ...
The militarisation of conservation is intensifying with increasing need to protect wildlife from poaching. Conservation violence is concomitantly escalating, so is the impetus to understand it. This article engages with ...
Coupling technological advances with sociocultural and policy changes can transform agri-food systems to address
pressing climate, economic, environmental, health and social challenges. An international expert panel reports ...
This article argues that in Africa, the nature and advent of racism has to be traced back to the earliest encounters between Africans and Europeans, including the first seven centuries but especially during the slavery and ...
This article analyses the circulation of Timaya’s 2019 music video I Can’t Kill Myself as a means of contemplating contemporary media consumption in Nigeria. Beginning with the premise that media forms are best understood ...
This essay profiles the strategies and (theological) tactics used by Desmond Tutu in
the management of painful memory in his own personal life, in his various leadership roles in church and society as well as in his role ...