Transforming Southern Africa
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Author | : Richard A. Sikora |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2019-11-27 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0429686633 |
This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing numerous challenges from diverse issues such as agricultural transformations, growing populations, urbanization and climate change. These challenges place great pressure on food security, agriculture, water availability and other natural resources, as well as impacting biodiversity. Drawing on case studies from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the chapters in this book consider these challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering key areas in constraints to production, the most important building blocks of good farming practices, and established and emerging technologies. This book will be a valuable support for informing new policies and processes aimed at improving food production and security and developing sustainable agriculture in Southern Africa. This informative volume will be key reading for those interested in agricultural science, African studies, rural studies, development studies and sustainability. It will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and agricultural practitioners. This title has been made available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CCBY-NC-ND) license and can be accessed here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429401701
Author | : DIVISION ON GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT. UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE. STRATEGIES |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-01-07 |
Genre | : Economic development |
ISBN | : 9789211130072 |
This volume investigates the status of regional integration in Southern Africa. It discusses the critical challenges to be overcome and surveys the most interesting opportunities for achieving deeper regional integration.
Author | : de Wet Chris de Wet |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 1474400442 |
This volume examines the ways in which changing political and economic processes impact upon patterns of population movement and settlement. It focuses on the southern African region as it has moved from the experiments of the early independence era, through civil war and refugee flight, into the current era characterised by globalization and the demise of apartheid. Focused case studies from across the region deal with specific aspects of these transformations and their policy implications.
Author | : Dr Laurie Nathan |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1409476677 |
Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Nathan examines a number of vital and troubling questions: ∗ why has SADC struggled to establish a viable security regime? ∗ why has it been unable to engage in successful peacemaking?, and ∗ why has it defied the optimistic prognosis in the early 1990s that it would build a security community in Southern Africa? He argues that the answers to these questions lie in the absence of common values among member states, the weakness of these states and their unwillingness to surrender sovereignty to the regional organization. Paradoxically, the challenge of building a co-operative security regime lies more at the national level than at the regional level. The author's perspective is based on a unique mix of insider access, analytical rigour and accessible theory.
Author | : Warren R. Perry |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1999-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306459558 |
In 1984, Perry went to Swaziland, in southern Africa, to do archaeological fieldwork on the emergence of the Swazi state. He concentrated on the unsanctioned realms of the recent history, the Mfecane/Difaqane period, and soon discovered that no archaeology had been undertaken and that the official r.
Author | : Jimnah Mbaru |
Publisher | : East African Publishers |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The work is organised into sections on: global perspectives on capital markets; stock exchanges and capital markets within the African continent; regional perspectives within the continent; the Nairobi Stock Exchange; the role of the Nairobi Stock Exchange in economic development; education for capital markets; exchange controls and foreign investors; privatisation; financial sector reforms; and the roles of education, women and children, art and culture in development.
Author | : L. Wallace |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1928502075 |
Modern-day science is under great pressure. A potent mix of increasing expectations, limited resources, tensions between competition and cooperation, and the need for evidence-based funding is creating major change in how science is conducted and perceived. Amidst this perfect storm is the allure of research excellence, a concept that drives decisions made by universities and funders, and defines scientists research strategies and career trajectories. But what is excellent science? And how to recognise it? After decades of inquiry and debate there is still no satisfactory answer. Are we asking the wrong question? Is reality more complex, and excellence in science more elusive, than many are willing to admit? And how should excellence be defined in different parts of the world, particularly in lower-income countries of the Global South where science is expected to contribute to pressing development issues, despite often scarce resources? Many wonder whether the Global South is importing, with or without consenting, the flawed tools for research evaluation from North America and Europe that are not fit for purpose. This book takes a critical view of these issues, touching on conceptual issues and practical problems that inevitably emerge when excellence is at the center of science systems. Emerging from the capacity-building work of the Science Granting Councils Initiative in sub-Saharan Africa, it speaks to scholars, as well as to managers and funders of research around the world. Confronting sticky problems and uncomfortable truths, the chapters contain insights and recommendations that point towards new solutions both for the Global South and the Global North.
Author | : Lungisile Ntsebeza |
Publisher | : HSRC Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780796921635 |
Author | : Oluwaseun Tella |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9781431429554 |
Author | : Christopher Changwe Nshimbi |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2020-11-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000203395 |
This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa, covering encounters between people, ideas and matter, and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical, social, economic and cultural contexts. Situated within debates on borders, borderlands, sub- and regional integration, this volume examines local, grassroots and non-state actors and their cross-border economic and sociocultural encounters and contestations. Particular attention is also paid on the role they play in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and its integration project in its multiplicity. The interdisciplinary chapters address the diverse human activities relating to cross-border economic and sociocultural encounters and contestations that are manifested through multiform and -scalar interactions between or among grassroots actors, involving engagements between grassroots actors and the state or its agencies, and/or to the broader arrangements that bear consequences of the first two upon regional integration. By bringing these different, at times contrasting, forms of interaction under a holistic analysis, this volume devises novel ways to understand the persistence and role of borders and their relation to new transnational and transcultural integrative phenomena at various levels, extending from the (nation-)state and the political to the cultural and social at the everyday level of border practices. Scholars and students of African studies, geography, economics, politics, sociology and border studies will find this book useful.