There is no single pathway from small-scale farming to improved livelihoods.
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Thousands of hectares of communal land set aside for smallholder farmers’ use in South Africa are lying fallow because of collapsed government irrigation systems.
Mopane worms are an important source of food security and cash income for some rural households.
Policies should protect arable land from urban encroachment and make peri-urban households less vulnerable.
Understanding rural household aspirations and taking them seriously in development planning could offer great potential in shaping the future of rural spaces.
A peace deal with the Taliban has been signed. But rebuilding Afghanistan after three decades of conflict will take much more than an accord, says a scholar of peacebuilding.
Building a lasting peace in Afghanistan will take much more than an accord with the Taliban. In post-conflict nations, economic development and job creation are critical to national security.
South Africa has some of the highest mobile voice and data costs in the world. A project to deliver affordable services and keep money in communities with high unemployment rates could be the answer.
The African court has demonstrated its autonomy in a continent where judicial independence remains shaky in many states.
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Faculty Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
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Researcher/Advocate on Customary Land Rights, Fellow at Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, Leiden University
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Senior Lecturer, Geography and Rural Development, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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Senior Economist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography and Rural Development, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
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CGIAR
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Honorary Lecturer, Bangor University
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Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow and Ad Hoc Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer, University of the Free State