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Monitoring and benchmarking government policies and actions to improve the healthiness of food environment Policy Index
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
Government action is essential to increase the healthiness of food environments
and reduce obesity, diet-related non-communicable diseases
(NCDs), and their related inequalities. This paper proposes a monitoring
framework ...
Monitoring the impacts of trade agreements on food environments
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
The liberalization of international trade and foreign direct investment through
multilateral, regional and bilateral agreements has had profound implications
for the structure and nature of food systems, and therefore, ...
Monitoring the levels of important nutrients in the food supply
(John Wiley & Sons, 2013)
A food supply that delivers energy-dense products with high levels of
salt, saturated fats and trans fats, in large portion sizes, is a major
cause of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The highly processed
foods produced ...
Workshop report: Farmworkers’ living and working conditions
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) has, with the support of the Atlantic Philanthropies through its Rural Research and Information Networking Project, engaged in supporting identified information ...
Herschel PEP/HerMES: the redshift evolution of dust attenuation and of the total (UV+IR) star formation rate density
(EDP Sciences, 2013)
Using new homogeneous luminosity functions (LFs) in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) from VVDS and in the far-infrared (FIR) from Herschel/PEP and Herschel/HerMES, we studied the evolution of the dust attenuation with redshift. ...
Towards a new classification system for legumes: Progress report from the 6th International Legume Conference
(Elsevier, 2013)
Legume systematists have been making great progress in understanding evolutionary relationships within the Leguminosae (Fabaceae), the third largest family of flowering plants. As the phylogenetic picture has become clearer, ...
Smallholders and agro-food value chains in South Africa: Emerging practices, emerging challenges
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
A key emerging strand in the development of smallholder
agriculture in South Africa is the effort to integrate smallholders
into corporate food retail value chains. In this, the
private sector and government have a ...
Synthesis report: Land divided: Land and South African Society in 2013, in comparative perspective
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
Three institutions, the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town, the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch and the Institute for Policy, Land and Agrarian Studies ...
Proceedings of the second innovation lab: Supporting smallholders into commercial agriculture: a social dialogue and learning project
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
The Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) and the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS) are engaged in a project called Supporting Smallholders into Commercial Agriculture: ...
Restitution of land rights amendment bill 2013
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
1.1. This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...