Impact Initiative - Urban/Rural: Recent submissions
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The Characteristics of the Urban Food System in Kitwe, Zambia: A Focus on the Retail Sector
(Routledge, 2018)The chapter describes Kitwe’s food system from the perspective of food retail. Food retail is an integral part of the city’s economic space and activities with the majority of retailers engaging in retail as a permanent ... -
Characteristics of the Urban Food System in Kisumu, Kenya
(University of Cape Town, 2018)Kisumu is the third-largest city in Kenya and its status as a transport and trade hub makes it an interesting city in the context of research on secondary cities in Africa. The city’s strategic location exposes it to both ... -
Consuming Urban Poverty Field Report No.3 Food Systems Description - Epworth
(University of Cape Town, 2018)This report is based on the fieldwork undertaken in Epworth in September 2016. The report will feed into the overall study that aims at exploring food systems in secondary cities and determine how these food systems function. ... -
Policy Revisions to Engage Urban Food System Reality in Epworth, Zimbabwe
(African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 2018)This policy brief is informed by the findings of the ESRC-DFID-funded Consuming Urban Poverty Project (CUP) (formally called “Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities in Africa”) on work conducted ... -
The Importance of the Informal Food Sector in the Kisumu Food System
(African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 2018)This policy brief is informed by the findings of the ESRC-DFID-funded Consuming Urban Poverty Project (CUP) (formally called “Governing Food Systems to Alleviate Poverty in Secondary Cities in Africa”). Work in Kisumuwas ... -
Cleaner Production Audit at Kagem Mining Canteens, Lufwanyama District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
(African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 2018)Cleaner production in the view of assessing the utilisation efficiency of raw materials, water and energy consumption as well as waste generation and management at Kagem Mine Canteens is a systematic approach aimed at ... -
Tomatoes and Taxi Ranks: Running Our Cities to Fill the Food Gap
(African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 2018)Despite their apparent abundance of resources, our cities often leave the urban poor hungry, heavy, and sick. This book isn’t really about the food that most people eat in Africa’s cities, though. Rather, it’s about the ... -
African Dreams: Locating Urban Infrastructure in the 2030 Sustainable Developmental Agenda
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)This paper examines African urban infrastructure and service delivery as an entry point for connecting African aspirations with the harsh developmental imperatives of urban management, creating a dialogue between scholarly ... -
Food Poverty in Kisumu, Kenya
(Routledge, 2018)This chapter investigates the extent of food insecurity in Kisumu and examines the sources of food of the city’s residents. Seventy-one percent of sampled households in Kisumu were found to be moderately or severely food ... -
Consuming Urban Poverty Field Report No.2 Food systems description - Kitwe
(University of Cape Town, 2018)This report is based on the fieldwork conducted in Kitwe analyzing the flow of food within the markets. The information presented in this report is based on published literature, filed observations and ... -
Changing Women's Lives and Livelihoods: Motorcycle Taxis in Rural Liberia and Sierra Leone
(Institution of Civil Engineers, 2020)In rural Liberia and Sierra Leone about half of motorcycle taxi passengers are female, with this proportion increasingon market days. However, all motorcycle taxi operators in rural areas are male. This study assessed if ... -
Norms, Mobilization and Conflict: The Merowe Dam as a Case Study
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)This article investigates dynamics of mobilization over environmental and human rights norms in the context of undemocratic governments. We test the suggestion in norm diffusion theories that the success of domestic struggles ... -
Exploring Policy Perceptions and Responsibility of Devolved Decision-making for Water Service Delivery in Kenya's 47 County Governments
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)Improving water services is a well-rehearsed political instrument to win public support against a backdrop of a wide range of hydro-political realities in Africa. This paper examines whether devolution to Kenya’s 47 counties ... -
A Cultural Theory of Drinking Water Risks, Values and Institutional Change
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)Global progress towards the goal of universal, safely managed drinking water services will be shaped by the dynamic relationship between water risks, values and institutions. We apply Mary Douglas’ cultural theory to rural ... -
Barriers to Equity in REDD+: Deficiencies in National Interpretation Processes Constrain Adaptation to Context
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)A national interpretation process involving diverse actors and interests is required to transform global environmental initiatives into policies appropriate to the national or subnational context. These processes of ... -
Brokering Justice: Global Indigenous Rights and Struggles over Hydropower in Nepal
(Routledge, 2018)This article explores the dynamics of brokerage at the intersection between the justice conceptions enshrined in global norms and the notions of justice asserted in specific socio-environmental struggles. Using the case ... -
Representation and Participation in Formulating Nepal's REDD+ Approach
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)REDD+ is an international policy aimed at incentivizing forest conservation and management and improving forest governance. In this article, we interrogate how newly articulated REDD+ governance processes established to ... -
Linking Notions of Justice and Project Outcomes in Carbon Offset Forestry Projects: Insights from a Comparative Study in Uganda
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)Over the last 20 years, Uganda has emerged as a testing ground for the various modes of carbon forestry used inAfrica. Carbon forestry initiatives in Uganda raise questions of justice, given that people with comparatively ... -
Agricultural Policy Making in Kenya: Why Must Smallholders' Agency be Made Central?
(ESRC STEPS, 2019)Smallholder farming in Kenya is key to the country’s food security and economy. Small farms account for 75% of the total agricultural output. Yet smallholder farmers’ agency has been largely neglected in the five decades ... -
Relational Approaches to Poverty in Rural India: Social, Ecological and Technical Dynamics
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2020)Poverty is now widely recognised as multidimensional, with indicators including healthcare, housing and sanitation. Yet, relational approaches that foreground political-cultural processes remain marginalised in policy ...