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Academic Research, Food Security
Urban Food Security Series No. 6: Urban Food Insecurity and the Advent of Food Banking in Southern Africa
In most African cities, there is sufficient food to feed everyone and considerable wastage of fresh and processed foodstuffs. Poor households are food insecure because they cannot afford to purchase e ...
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Academic Research, Food Security
Urban Food Security Series No. 5: The HIV and Urban Food Security Nexus
Considerable attention has been devoted to the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on small farmers and the food security of the rural poor. Despite the rapid progression of the epidemic in rural area ...
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Academic Research, Food Security
Urban Food Security Series No. 4: Urban Food Production and Household Food Security in Southern African Cities
Optimism about the role of household food production (urban agriculture) in improving the food security of the urban poor has given way to pessimism and even scepticism. This paper critically examines ...
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Academic Research, Food Security
Urban Food Security Series No. 3: Pathways to Insecurity: Food Supply and Access in Southern African Cities
As in many parts of the world, supermarket expansion and control of food supply chains is having a major impact on the quality, quantity and price of food available to urban residents. Growing numbers ...
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Academic Research, Food Security
Urban Food Security Series No. 2 : The State of Urban Food Insecurity in Southern Africa s
The number of people living in urban areas is rising rapidly in Southern Africa. By mid-century, the region is expected to be 60% urban. Rapid urbanization is leading to growing food insecurity in the ...
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Academic Research, Food Security
Urban Food Security Series No. 1: The Invisible Crisis: Urban Food Security in Southern Africa
Over 1 billion people in the world are now undernourished. The current international food security agenda focuses almost exclusively on the food insecurity of rural populations and ways to increase sm ...
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Applied Urban Research, Academic Research
Urban transitions: on urban resilience
Urban transitions: on urban resilience and human-dominated ecosystems. Ambio 39(8):531-545 Urbanization is a global multidimensional process paired with increasing uncertainty due to climate change, m ...
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Applied Urban Research, Academic Research
Network analysis in conservation biogeography: challenges and opportunities. Diversity and Distributions
2010. Network analysis in conservation biogeography: challenges and opportunities. Diversity and Distributions 16:414-425. Aims: To highlight the potential value of network analysis for conservation b ...
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Applied Urban Research, Academic Research
Weaving protective stories
Ernstson, H. and S. Sörlin. 2009. Weaving protective stories: connective practices to articulate holistic values in Stockholm National Urban Park. Environment and Planning A 41(6):1460–1479 ...
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Applied Urban Research, Academic Research
Social movements and ecosystem services
Ernstson, H., S. Sörlin and T. Elmqvist. 2008: The role of social network structure in protecting and managing urban green areas in Stockholm. Ecology and Society 13(2):39. Exploitation and degra ...
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Applied Urban Research, Public Discourse
Can cities afford the public transport function?
The National Land Transport Act, passed in 2009, laid the basis for city government to take responsibility for managing and regulating public transport at the local level. In this article for Mobility ...
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Applied Urban Research, Public Discourse
Assessment of financial trends for metro public transport functions
The major goal in public transport planning is to shift passengers, firstly, from private cars onto public transport and, secondly, from taxis and conventional buses to mass transit systems (rail and ...
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