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Culture and Safety in Africa: Developing a Methodology Guide
Jun 15, 2012The workshop Culture and Safety in Africa: Developing a Methodology Guide, which was held in Switzerland between the 10th and 14th March 2012, focused on the creation of a research methodology for Mob ...
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The Colony and Urban Reform
The Colony and Urban Reform
May 2, 2012 — Cape Town
Margo Huxley will lead a discussion on her paper which examines debates from the early part of the 19th century, in which the problem of 'superfluous labouring population' and its remedies w ...
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Open Book Festival - CityScapes Magazine Launch
Open Book Festival - CityScapes Magazine Launch
Sep 24, 2011 — Cape Town
A short conversation on this initiative of the African Centre for Cities with the editors Tau Tavengwa, Sean O'Toole and Edgar Pieterse. CityScapes, a biannual magazine style publication, seeks t ...
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Open Book Festival: Ricky Burdett - Living in the Endless City Book Launch
Open Book Festival: Ricky Burdett - Living in the Endless City Book Launch
Sep 21, 2011 — Cape Town
Ricky Burdett, director of LSE Cities and co-editor of the volume Living in the endless City, will speak about the book, Urban Age and the work of LSE Cities. The book is an investigation into the phy ...
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Southern Theory Revisited: Raewyn Connell
Southern Theory Revisited: Raewyn Connell
Professor Raewyn Connell gave this seminar on her 21 July 2011 visit to Cape Town as part of the ACC's Seminar Series.
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Iolanda Pensa Reviews the African Cities Reader II for Domus
Aug 30, 2011The "saboteur" approach adopted as a strategy by Edgar Pieterse and Ntone Edjabe in curating the African Cities Reader II: Mobilities & Fixtures and the mixture of different narrative genres has ...
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Kenya leads the way
Jul 18, 2011On 15th July 2011, the kenyan government launched a key website (opendata.go.ke) making Kenya the first country in sub sahara Africa to offer loads of government data to its citizens. The website pack ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...