2017 PRESENTATIONS
Structural Equation Modelling of Water and Food Security: Implications Under Climate Change and Rapid Urbanization
Presenter: Lawrence Kazembe. December 10-15, 2017. 9th Conference of Ecosystems Services Partnership, Shenzen, China.
How do We Remake the Divided City?
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. November 28, 2017. Science & Cocktails Public Lecture, Johannesburg.
Moving Beyond the Divided City
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. November 23, 2017. Jobs Fund Learning Conference, Johannesburg.
Grounding Agenda 2063 in Local Practice: Implications for Interdisciplinary Practice
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. November 13-14, 2017. Mistra Urban Futures International Conference, Kisumu.
Breaking the Walls Towards Liveable Cities
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. November 9, 2017. Falling Walls Conference, Berlin.
Challenges Facing South African Cities
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. October 8, 2017. Green Building Council Convention.
Planning for Less Planning: Supporting Informal Food Systems in Nairobi
Presenter: Andrea Brown. September, 2017. African Urban Planning Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
Food, Space and Gender in Urban Malawi
Presenters: Liam Riley, Belinda Dodson. September, 2017. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Royal Geographical Society, London.
Transition Models with Spatial Random Effects
Presenter: Lawrence Kazembe. August 24-28, 2017. 1st TWAS Young Affiliates Conference. Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
Strengthening Alliances for Diversified Agroecological Systems in China
Presenter: Steffanie Scott. August 15-16, 2017. Building Community-University Partnerships for Sustainable Food Systems workshop, Renmin University, Beijing.
The Lock-in Factors of Industrial Agriculture in China: An Overview of the IPES-Food Report
Presenter: Zhenzhong Si. August 15-16, 2017. Workshop on Community-Academics Partnership for Sustainable Food System in China. Beijing, China.
The Outcomes and Lock-in Factors of Industrial Agriculture in China
Presenter: Zhenzhong Si. August 10-13, 2017. The 18th Conference of Chinese Agroecology and Ecological Agriculture. Yan’an, China.
Meeting the Challenges of Food Security and Food Safety in China
Presenter: Zhenzhong Si. August 7-9, 2017. Cross-sector Collaboration Workshop. Beijing, China.
The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. July 1, 2017. Keynote address at 7th European Conference on African Studies 2017.
The Politics and Spatialities of Land Use Regulation in Mexico City
Presenter: Jill Wigle. June 1, 2017. The Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), Toronto.
Perspectives on the Resilience of High-tech Urban Agriculture in Canadian Cities
Presenters: Alesandros Glaros, Steffanie Scott. May 28-30, 2017. The Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Toronto.
Accessible and Affordable Cities
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. May 22, 2017. Uber Inclusive Mobility Summit, Cape Town.
Prioritising Experimentation for Sustainable African Urban Futures
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. May 12, 2017. Keynote at: Africa’s urban future Research and policy dialogue, Nordic Africa Institute, Helsinki.
Adaptive Urbanism
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. April 28, 2017. Intersections-Understanding Urbanism in the Global Age, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University.
Urbanization and Food Security in Nairobi, Kenya
Presenter: Samuel Owuor. April 19, 2017. ESDA-SUD Workshop Series, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Curriculum Questions for Inhabiting Surreal Urbanism
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. March 9-11, 2017. Art Search Symposium @ the Wits School of Art, Johannesburg.
Thinking through Scarcity of Resources
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. March 9, 2017. Independent Philanthropy Association of South Africa, Ford Foundation, Johannesburg.
The Role of Zimbabwean Diaspora Organizations in South Africa as Agents of Change in Zimbabwe
Presenter: Godfrey Tawodzera. March 7-10, 2017. Conference on Diaspora Organizations as Transnational Agencies of Socio-Political Change, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands.
Urbanization Trends in Africa
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. February 6-7, 2017. Talk at: Urban Health in Africa: advancing multidisciplinary approaches conference, Cape Town.
Planning a City to Enable the Health of its People
Presenter: Godfrey Tawodzera. February 5-7, 2017. Conference on Urban Health in Africa: Advancing Multi-Disciplinary Approaches, Workshop Funded by the Novartis Foundation, NH Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West, Cape Town.
Food and the SGDs in Everyday Life: SGDs 2 and 11
Presenters: Bruce Frayne, Jennifer Lynes, Prateep Nayak, Larry Swatuk. February 2-3, 2017. Panel Session, Ontario Council for International Cooperation’s Global Citizen’s Forum.
The Double Crisis: Migration from Zimbabwe & Xenophobia in South Africa
Presenters: Godfrey Tawodzera, Jonathan Crush, Abel Chikanda, Tevera, D. January 23-24, 2017. Migrants in Crisis Workshop, A workshop on Emerging Findings from the MICIC Research (South Africa, Ghana, Chad, Niger, Egypt, Tunisia), University of Ghana, Centre for Migration, Accra.
Urban Household Food Security and Food Safety Perceptions in Nanjing, China: Hungry Cities Partnership Survey Results
Presenter: Zhenzhong Si. Janurary 12, 2017. Hungry Cities Partnership Workshop in Nanjing: Wet Market and Urban Food System. Nanjing, China.
International Migration and Food Security
Presenter: Jonathan Crush. 2017. Plenary Address to UN Hearings on Global Compact for Migration, New York.
Divorcing Food and Agriculture: Towards a Research Agenda for Urban Food Security
Presenter: Jonathan Crush. 2017. Workshop on Harnessing Urban Food Systems for Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being, Bellagio.
Revisiting the Supermarket Revolution
Presenter: Jonathan Crush. 2017. Workshop on Africa’s Supermarket Revolution, Windhoek, Namibia.
The Malawian City in Urban Poverty: Exploring Urban Informality Through Blantyre’s Foodscape
Presenter: Liam Riley. 2017. Joint Session of the Canadian Association of African Studies & Canadian Association for the Study of International Development Conferences. Toronto.
Food, Space and Gender in Urban Malawi
Presenter: Liam Riley. 2017. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. London, UK (with B. Dodson).
Feeding Cities of the Global South: The State of Food Insecurity in Harare, Zimbabwe
Presenter: Abel Chikanda. 2017. Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA.