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There are hundreds of variations on the basic ‘flavour’ of bird migration.
Plants, in their fossil forms, can reveal a great deal about past environments and climates.
Numerous traditional African medicines are undeniably beneficial in treating disease or maintaining good health.
The tobacco industry claims that tobacco- growing is essential to the livelihoods of millions of small-scale rural farmers in Malawi, Zambia and Kenya. Research shows that’s untrue.
A precursor to the Square Kilometre Array- the MeerKAT telescope - is being built right now and remarkable progress has been made in the last 12 months.
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.
If Europe is going to reap the benefits of conservation measures at home, its experts need an understanding of where “their” birds migrate to when they head off to Africa.
Faced with a massive food production shortfall, Africa can look towards India’s Green Revolution to jump start its agricultural output.
Zambia has gone from a country where people engaged freely in open political debate to one where most people now look over their shoulders to see who’s listening.
Zambia’s president is securing powers to consolidate his political control while generating ‘plausible deniability’ to whether or not he has fatally undermined democracy.
Information to weather changes is often unavailable to Africa’s farmers and even if it does exist, the quality is poor or inaccessible to those who need it most.
The IMF’s decision to go ahead with a bailout package for Zambia, despite the government’s democratic failings, could embolden the president to pursue an authoritarian strategy.
The state of democracy isn’t looking good in southern Africa – but these countries’ Western ‘partners’ don’t really seem to care.
Dams are once again being recognised as important key contributors to a prosperous and sustainable future.
Cheetah’s rarity and elusiveness poses a problem for conservationists who need to know where they still persist, and whether their numbers are increasing or decreasing.
The world’s media, which has in the past found Zambia uninteresting, are suddenly paying more attention to the impoverished nation, for all the wrong reasons.
Three democracies once considered beacons of hope are in varying states of disarray.
The harassment of informal food vendors by national and municipal governments remains a major impediment to improving the resilience of the urban poor in African cities.
Climate change, deforestation, overfishing and hydrocarbon exploitation threatens one of Africa’s oldest lake’s, Lake Tanganyika.
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Economics, Centre for Competition, Regulation & Economic Development, UJ, and at SOAS University of London; advisor Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, University of Johannesburg
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Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Associate professor, University of Gothenburg
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Researcher at Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science- PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Residence of Global Health, Marquette University
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Economist at Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg
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MSU Foundation Professor, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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PhD Research Fellow – Finance, University of Greater Manchester