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Precision approaches to food insecurity: A spatial analysis of urbanhunger and its contextual correlates in an African city
(Elsevier, 2022)
Although progress has been made in addressing hunger and poor diets in African cities, many urban res-idents still suffer from food insecurity, and there is large heterogeneity within cities. We examine spatialvariations ...
Fisheries crime, human rights and small-scalefisheries in South Africa: Acase of biggerfish to fry
(Elsevier, 2019)
Marinefisheries plays an important role in ensuring food security and providing livelihoods in South Africa, as inmany other developing coastal States. Transnationalfisheries crime seriously undermines these goals. Drawingon ...
“Reproducing the social”: Contradictory interconnections between land, cattle production and household relations in the Besters Land Reform Project, South Africa
(Routledge, 2019)
Land redistribution policy in South Africa emphasises commercial farming as the legitimate
use of land. This production-oriented framework fails to take into account the intertwined but
unstable relationship between the ...
Egotism and female managerial performance in South Africa: Evidence from SMEs in the agricultural sector
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)
This study sets out to address the perceived pitfalls of egotism among
female entrepreneurs in South Africa. This study further ascertains a unique strategy and group of accustomed performance factors that are believed ...
Sophia’s choice: Debt, social welfare, and racial finance capitalism
(SAGE, 2021)
In this article, I examine normative assumptions about cash transfers as public goods and the lived
experience of cash transfers as private debts. Policy makers and social scientists often assume
cash transfers are ...
Alternative definitions of informal sector employment in South Africa
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)
Before the introduction of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) in 2008, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has been using the same methodology to derive the informal sector employment throughout the years, focusing ...
Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
Communities of Practice are sites of social learning for the co-production of knowledge. Building
on recent literature on Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice, this article reflects on the experiences of an emergent ...
Exploring adaptation and agency of mothers caring for disabled children inan urban settlement in South Africa: A qualitative study
(Elsevier, 2019)
Mothers of disabled children who are living in poverty face multiple interlinked disadvantages in relation togender, care, disability, and poverty. Yet, their experiences have been largely neglected in academic literature.This ...
Challenging the odds of vulnerability and resilience in lone migration: Coping strategies of Zimbabwean unaccompanied minors in South Africa
(Routledge, 2019)
Childhood vulnerability attracts more societal and scholarly attention than
child resilience. This article presents experiences of some Zimbabwean
Unaccompanied Minors (ZUMs) in South Africa as an example of
children ...
Impact of culture on the adoption of diabetes self-management applications: Cape flats, South Africa
(ifip, 2021)
Diabetes is a global health problem with a high mortality rate. The research indicates low
levels of technology use amongst diabetic patients in low socioeconomic environments
and minority groups. We posit that the culture ...