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The Urban Land Nexus–Challenges and Opportunities of Regularising Informal Settlements: The Case Studies of Dar es Salaam and Mwanza in Tanzania
(University of Cape Town, 2020-05-19)Informal settlements in Tanzania accommodate more than 70% of the urban population. Owing to this, the Tanzanian government has undertaken several initiatives to address the growing size and number of informal settlements. ... -
Divergent Understandings of Agroecology in the Era of the African Green Revolution
(Sage Journals, 2020-06-12)Agroecology is increasingly recognized within mainstream development. Yet, this is controversial, due to disagreement over what it does and should mean. This article takes a ‘knowledge politics’ approach to show how different ... -
Food Politics and Development
(Elsevier, 2020-06-17)Food has become both a pivotal topic in development and a lens through which to integrate and address a range of contemporary global challenges. This review article addresses in particular the interrelationship between ... -
A Common Sense Approach to the Right to Food
(Oxford University Press, 2019-01-09)Despite growing activism around the right to food in the past decade, there has been little exploration of how people understand the right and its implications. This article analyses original research that explored how ... -
Process Tracing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’
(Springer Nature, 2019-11-14)In recent years, a range of new indices, benchmarking and scorecard tools—also known as ‘indicators’—have been developed to influence public policy and to pro- mote accountability. While subjected to important technical ... -
Tanzania's Story of Change in Nutrition: Political Commitment, Innovation and Shrinking Political Space
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-01-09)In the past 15 years, Tanzania has made considerable progress in the fight against child undernutrition. This paper analyses in what respects an enabling environment for nutrition action in Tanzania has emerged. It critically ... -
States of Power: Energy Imaginaries and Transnational Assemblages in Norway, Nepal and Tanzania
(Elsevier, 2020-09)Support to energy, particularly hydropower, has formed an important element of many donor programmes. How have such interventions shaped the emergence of particular energy imaginaries in the countries engaged with? ‘Energy ... -
Modelling the Global Economic Consequences of a Major African Swine Fever Outbreak in China
(Springer Nature, 2020-04-17)African swine fever is a deadly porcine disease that has spread into East Asia where it is having a detrimental effect on pork production. However, the implications of African swine fever on the global pork market are ... -
Power, Participation and their Problems: a Consideration of Power Dynamics in the Use of Participatory Epidemiology for One Health and Zoonoses Research
(Elsevier, 2020-02-27)The use of Participatory Epidemiology in veterinary research intends to include livestock keepers and other local stakeholders in research processes and the development of solutions to animal health problems, including ... -
Transformations to Sustainability: Combining Structural, Systemic and Enabling Approaches
(Elsevier, 2020-01-22)The imperatives of environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation and social justice (partially codified in the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs) call for ambitious societal transformations. As such, few aspects ... -
Farming Within a Dual Legal Land System: An Argument for Emancipatory Food Systems Planning in Accra, Ghana
(Elsevier, 2020-03)Contestation over land is a central element of urban food systems. This paper examines how Ghana’s dual legal land system affects urban farmers. Situated within the “emancipatory planning” discourse, the paper investigates ... -
Introduction: the Accountability Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities. Learning from Brazil and Mozambique
(CEBRAP, 2019-05-01)Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy challenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‑demo‑ cratic settings alike. At the ... -
Understanding the Impacts of Outdoor Air Pollution on Social Inequality: Advancing a Just Transition Framework
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-11-14)Outdoor air pollution is a major environmental risk that caused over 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide in 2016. In this article, we investigate how groups with lower social-economic status are disproportionally affected ... -
Receiving Social Assistance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Negating Shame or Producing Stigma?
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-11-04)Despite the centrality of shame and stigma within research on welfare in high-income countries, these issues only exist within the periphery of rapidly expanding practice in and research on social assistance in low- and ... -
Means, Motives and Opportunity: Determinants of Community Health Worker Performance
(BMJ, 2019-10-23)The performance of community health workers (CHWs) typically depends on the interaction between their motivation (their intent to achieve personal and organisational goals) and the constraints that they face in doing so. ... -
Aligning Evidence Generation and Use Across Health, Development and Environment
(Elsevier, 2019-08-01)Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed ... -
Mapping Differential Vulnerabilities and Rights: ‘Opening’ Access to Social Protection for Forcibly Displaced Populations
(SpringerOpen, 2019)In recent years, forcibly displaced populations have attracted enormous media attention as an increasing number of disasters and political conflicts push more and more people to move away from their homes and seek refuge ... -
Agricultural Investments and Hunger in Africa Modelling Potential Contributions to SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
(Elsevier Ltd., 2019-04)We use IFPRI’s IMPACT framework of linked biophysical and structural economic models to examine developments in global agricultural production systems, climate change, and food security. Building on related work on how ... -
Socioecological Systems and Forest Landscape Restoration
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-09)Social and ecological systems are in constant interaction. Focusing on both systems and their interactions provides a more balanced way of addressing forest landscape restoration (FLR). In this chapter, a range of forest ... -
Young People and Land in Zimbabwe: Livelihood Challenges After Land Reform
(Routledge, 2019-08-08)This article explores the livelihood challenges and opportunities of young people following Zimbabwe’s land reform in 2000. The article explores the life courses of a cohort of men and women, all children of land reform ...
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