National food security in countries of sub-Saharan Africa requires an abundant supply of
cheap and nutritious food for the burgeoning population. At the same time agriculture is a …

Urban centers have inner and outer landscapes whose physical remains can be read as the
materialization of social, political, economic, and ritual interactions. Inner landscapes are …

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process–an"
anticipatory politics"–that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and …

Technological interventions to address the problem of poor productivity of smallholder
agricultural systems must be designed to target socially diverse and spatially heterogeneous …

Aiming to translate resilience thinking theory into farming systems design practice, this paper
examines fundamental properties of complex systems dynamics and their relation with the …

Through examinations of inner-city street economies in Johannesburg and mechanisms of
emigration and political resistance in the Bapenda Omnisport and Mouchouchou quarters of …

Many development countries are currently undergoing major demographic shifts as the
percentage of young people of the total population rapidly increases. This shift is associated …

The world's population is predicted to hit 9 billion by 2050, up from today's total of nearly 7.4
billion, and with it food demand is predicted to increase substantially. There are many factors …

Institutions across many cities in Africa lack sufficient authority to instil any overarching
matrix of definitions and spatial framework capable of holding residents in stable …

Much development research is not explicit about its methodology or philosophical
foundations. Based on the extended case method of Burawoy and the philosophy of critical …