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    Workshop series shares experience and practical skills with emerging scholars

    “There was a cartoon I used to watch called Toby Blue and it talked about climate in a language digestible to a child’s mind, which I never forgot. In contrast, I have heard so much from academics on this subject and I don’t even remember their names”  This personal reflection, by researcher Edgar Lushaju, one […]

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    Urban Stories: Documenting Everyday Life in Tanzania

    URBAN STORIES (English) – Documenting everyday life in Tanzania – Water and Sanitation from Eric Schaechter on Vimeo. To ignore informal service provision in Tanzanian cities is to miss an opportunity. Informal water and sanitation providers, featured in this film by an ARDHI University research team, have devised innovative ways to overcome service delivery backlogs. […]

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    New book explores issues of land and urban governance in Africa

    As part of the eight partners’ meeting of the Global Land Tool Network held from 1 to 4 December, Springer launched a new book Land Issues and Urban Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa edited by Robert Home. Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial […]

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    This lecture was delivered by Professor Manuel Castells during his visit to Cape Town in 2009.

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    A presentation by Caroline Skinner for a policy conference convened by the Employment, Income Distribution and Inclusive Growth project in Pretoria on the 28 and 29th of November, 2016.    

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    The Informal Sectors Role in Food Security: The Missing Link in South African Policy Debates?

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    Working Paper: Understanding the Linkages Between Urban Food Systems and Non-Communicable Diseases in Namibia

    Understanding the Linkages Between Urban Food Systems and Non-Communicable Diseases in Namiba by researchers Ndeyapo Nickanor, Tobias Shinyemba and Lawrence Kazembe, is the fourth in a series of Nourishing Spaces working papers edited by Jane Battersby. (more…)

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    Working Paper: Food Systems and Diet-related Non-Communicable Diseases in Kisumu, Kenya

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    Working Paper: Household Consumption Patterns and NCDs in Kisumu, Kenya

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