by Global Development Institute | Feb 26, 2018 | Comment
Suzette van der Walt A diverse group of students, community leaders and NGO representatives and academics recently came together at the University of Johannesburg to develop the ‘codes of engagement’; a short practical guide on participatory urban planning The main...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 23, 2018 | Comment
Dr Judith Krauss, Lecturer in Environment and Climate Change Can I ask you a question? Do you like chocolate? If your answer is ‘yes’, as for 100% of my focus-group and public-engagement participants, you may be interested to know that the people manufacturing your...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 22, 2018 | News, Research Findings
A new book fills a research gap on migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements. The book ‘Forging African Communities: Mobility, Integration and Belonging’ sheds new light on how human mobility redefines the meaning of...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 21, 2018 | Comment, Uncategorized
Gabriele Restelli, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute Monday, June 27th. Beirut, 5.00 AM and the electricity is gone. It is a sweltering 35 degrees even at dawn. Right when I’m thinking to just get up, the phone starts ringing. It is Juliana, our Security...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 20, 2018 | Comment
In the last year, Professor Bina Agarwal has won three major international prizes for her work on gender, agriculture and development: the Agropolis Fondation Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize, the French Ordre du Mérite Agricole, and finally the Balzan...