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A decade of fisheries co-management in Africa: Going back to the roots? Empowering fishing communities? Or just an illusion?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
This paper provides an overview of co-management in Africa and the historical, political and paradigmatic reasons for the shift. The historical context is important when analysing the performance of the regime. The main ...
The New Alliance on food security and nutrition: What are the implications for Africa’s youth?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition’ (hereafter the ‘New Alliance’) is a partnership which was established between selected African countries, G8 members, and the private sector to ‘work together to accelerate ...
Inclusive business models in agriculture? Learning from smallholder cane growers in Mozambique
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
Amidst the increasing corporate investment in African farmland the term ‘inclusive business model’ has become a catchphrase touted as an opportunity for incorporating smallholder farmers alongside large-scale commercial ...
A human rights response to cervical cancer in Africa
(International Journal of Human Rights, 2011-03)
This article examines the prevalence and impacts of human papilomavirus (HPV) transmission among women in Africa. It then examines the relevance of a rights-based approach to health-related challenges such as cervical ...
Compulsory licensing and access to medicines in post Doha era: What hope for Africa?
(Netherlands International Law Review, 2008)
The Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement of 1994, an outcome of the Uruguay Round negotiations, radically altered the role of international trade law in promoting and enforcing intellectual ...
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Routledge, 2017)
This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized
at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point
was the observation of a massive ...
The physician-scientists: rare species in Africa
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2018)
There is paucity of physician-scientists in Africa, resulting in overt dependence of clinical practice on research findings from advanced "first world"
countries. Physician-scientists include individuals with a medical ...
A path to realising economic, social and cultural rights in Africa? A critique of the New Partnership for Africa's Development
(African Human Rights Law Journal, 2004)
he article first sets out the legal framework for the protection of socio-economic and cultural rights in Africa. Some of the reasons that have been advanced for the non-realisation of socio-economic rights as compared to ...
Survey of detention visiting mechanisms in Africa
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Mechanisms of detention oversight may refer to any number of activities or approaches which would result in the institution of detention
being held accountable to the overseeing body. Such actions may include public ...
Provision of inpatient rehabilitation and challenges experienced with participation post discharge: quantitative and qualitative inquiry of African stroke patients
(BioMed Central, 2015)
BACKGROUND: The provision of rehabilitation differs between developed and developing countries, this could
impact on the outcomes of post stroke rehabilitation. The aim of this paper is to present provision of in-patient
stroke ...