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- Moberg, Christina, et al.
(författare)
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De unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
- 2022
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Ingår i: Aftonbladet. - 1103-9000.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- 1 620 forskare och lärare i forskarvärlden: Vi ställer oss bakom Auroras klimatkrav
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- Abera, Asmamaw, et al.
(författare)
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Air Quality in Africa : Public Health Implications
- 2021
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Ingår i: Annual review of public health. - : Annual Reviews. - 0163-7525 .- 1545-2093. ; 42, s. 193-210
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This review highlights the importance of air quality in the African urban development process. We address connections between air pollution and (a) rapid urbanization, (b) social problems, (c) health impacts, (d) climate change, (e) policies, and ( f ) new innovations. We acknowledge that air pollution levels in Africa can be extremely high and a serious health threat. The toxic content of the pollution could relate to region-specific sources such as low standards for vehicles and fuels, cooking with solid fuels, and burning household waste. We implore the pursuit of interdisciplinary research to create new approaches with relevant stakeholders. Moreover, successful air pollution research must regard conflicts, tensions, and synergies inherent to development processes in African municipalities, regions, and countries. This includes global relationships regarding climate change, trade, urban planning, and transportation. Incorporating aspects of local political situations (e.g., democracy) can also enhance greater political accountability and awareness about air pollution. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health, Volume 42 is April 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Djurfeldt, Göran, et al.
(författare)
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Afrint database
- 2011
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Sjöström, Cheryl
(författare)
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Food for Naught : The politics of food in agricultural modernization for African smallholder food security
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Why is there hunger in sub-Saharan Africa? What forces drive the global food system? What is the global food system? To approach these questions, this study investigates power and politics in food, in its production and in its organization. Proceeding from a critical realist approach, focus of this study is on the challenge of African smallholder food insecurity and how it is presented as part of a dominant discourse of agricultural modernization. This study identifies a framing of agricultural modernization being used and promoted by influential actors of international development that respectively represent the inspiration, the science and the mobilization of resources for contemporary African agricultural development efforts. A text from each of the actors has been identified and analyzed to draw out common principles of how African smallholder food insecurity is framed and what solutions are subsequently promoted. Based on a food regimes framework of analysis, the tenets of agricultural modernization adhere to a reigning corporate-environmental food regime where the logic of the wider capitalist system guides development objectives and means to achieve those objectives. Several contradictions of this framing are identified in this study regarding how it serves to depoliticize food insecurity. This includes the way it presents specific images of and oversimplified relationships between the environment, the people, the livelihoods, the institutions and the ideologies that are involved in smallholder food production. This framing of agricultural modernization has since 2005 been applied in the form of an on-the-ground development intervention in sub-Saharan Africa through the Millennium Villages Project (MVP). As part of this critical discourse analysis, fieldwork was conducted at the MVP project site in southern Malawi. Findings from fieldwork indicate ways in which the MVP, either advertently or inadvertently, contributes to the marginalization of smallholders through impacts on power at different levels. This includes the reinforcement of debilitating structures and ideologies in the recipient community whereby certain resources such as technical know-how and political positioning in society become privileged at the cost of other resources such as local knowledges and autonomy becoming devalued. In conclusion, this study builds the argument that the inclusion of power when addressing smallholder food insecurity is not only helpful but necessary in order to address this persistent and urgent challenge, due to the multiple and various functions food plays in society.
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- Sjöström, Cheryl
(författare)
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Investigating the Communicating of Science
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study investigates the challenges and potential pathways for improved science communication, particularly in regards to research on the topic of smallholder food security and for science being generated by universities in sub-Saharan Africa. Questions asked in this study include those that aim to identify the academic substrate from which a university based in Africa must navigate. It also identifies limitations and opportunities for those institutions and for researchers who actively seek to have an impact on smallholder food security. Finally, it seeks to identify where improvements can be made in order to enhance science-based decision-making in this field.Based on this study, we can see that there are a number of focal actors and agendas to which universities in sub-Saharan Africa must work in concert with, and that there are a number of umbrella organizations in Africa with the intention of creating synergies and networks for knowledge exchange. RUFORUM is identified as an umbrella organization that is particularly wellsituated to be of good support for universities and researchers engaged in questions of foodsecurity. Using webometrics I identified top-performing universities in sub-Saharan Africa, which I then overlapped with the member universities of RUFORUM to identify candidates for closer investigation. Communication channels from universities vary greatly, as one would expect, and strategies range from the creation of a separate campus with the mandate of linking science with local society, to embracing the role of social media in targeting a wider audience, to engaging with existent international research systems such as that of the CGIAR where appropriate.There is a range of challenges to science communication. Some are generalizable to academia at large, such as skewed merit-based systems favoring academic journal publications, limited funding, and the tricky business of reaching out from academia or one’s own discipline while still maintaining credibility. Specific to academia in Africa is the historical pendulum swing of the role and priority given to higher education as well as limiting infrastructure and inadequate national commitment to research. We can see that different strategies for overcoming challenges can work and there is no one ‘right’ way. The agendas of international bodies such as the World Bank and other funding agencies do affect the trajectories and priorities of universities, thus creating both a challenge but also a point of entry for the promotion and resource support for articulate scientific communication for multiple audiences, as part of the academic curriculum and measurements of success as an academician. With such a transformation, the communication of science can become not only the means to a goal (that is, to help attain sustainable smallholder food security) but as a goal in itself, giving university researchers the capacities and opportunities to find meaning and satisfaction in their work by contributing to the wider society.
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