Urban Food Security Series No 5: The HIV and Urban Food Security Nexus
Considerable attention has been devoted to the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on small farmers and the food security of the rural poor.
Urban Food Security Series No 6: Urban Food Insecrutiy and the Advent of Food Banking in Southern Africa
In most African cities, there is sufficient food to feed everyone and considerable wastage of fresh and processed foodstuffs. Poor households are food insecure because they cannot afford to purchase enough quality food and are unable to access the surplus food that exists.
Learning to Swim: Strengthening Flooding Governance in the City of Cape Town
Vulnerability to flooding is a growing concern in cities of the South, where resources are concentrated and poor people often settle in flood prone areas.
Socio-Technical Regimes and SustainabilityTransitions: Insights From Political Ecology. Progress in Human Geography 36 (3): 354 – 378
Sustainability is increasingly becoming a core focus of geography, linking subfields such as urban, economic, and political ecology, yet strategies for achieving this goal remain illusive.
Beyond the Food Desert: Finding Ways to Speak About Urban Food Security in South Africa
Urban food security is a significant development challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the field is current- ly under-researched and under-theorized.
Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: A Global Assessment of the Links Between Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem
CBO – Action and Policy provides the summary of a global assessment of the links between urbanization, biodi- versity, and ecosystem services.
Flows, Friction, and the Sociomaterial Metabolization of Alcohol
Political ecologists have considered the sociomateriality of diverse hybrids and the metabolism and circulation of urban flows such as water, food and waste. Adding alcohol to this list enhances our understanding of the geography of alcohol as well as the theory of sociomateriality.
Brokering Communities of Knowledge & Practice: Reflections on The African Centre for Cities’ Citylab
Calls for greater engagement between academia and society to address mounting societal problems per- sist. The African Centre for Cities, a University of Cape Town research entity, set up the CityLab pro- gramme to broker interdisciplinary engagement, both across academic disciplines and between academia and broader society, to engage with the issues pertinent to sustainable urban development in Cape Town.
Space, Affect, Security: Reflections on ‘Outcharming’ Crime in the City
In my reflections on space, affect and security I seek to capture the aesthetic and affective dimensions of everyday city-making in a South African metropolis.
[Re]Writing Type : Architecture in an age of [radical] transformation
Prof. iain Low shares his life-long concern with the overlap between teaching, research and service, and his support of the speculative testing of theory through practice that takes action out of the university and into the ‘city’.
Comments on a Global World and Fragmented Localities
Pep Subiros on globalisation and the continent of Africa. What happens in African cities mirrors what is happening with cities everywhere, just under more extreme conditions, he argues.
Bad Buildings
So called bad buildings in the Inner City of Johannesburg reflect the complex processes of city formation in Africa.
On the Geography and Architecture of Prisons and the South African Condition
Kelly Gillespie briefly speaks about her current work and research interests.