2018 PRESENTATIONS
The Urban Food System of Nairobi
Presenter: Samuel Owuor. October 11-12, 2018. Workshop “Science Meets Business”, Nairobi, Kenya.
Using Agroecology to Advance Sustainable Development Goals in China
Presenters: Steffanie Scott, Zhenzhong Si. August 9-10, 2018. Presentation at Place-Based Food Systems Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Food, Social Reproduction, and Imagining the Urban in African Cities
Presenter: Belinda Dodson August 2018. Presentation for Feminist Geography conference, Montreal, Canada.
Urban Food Security Among Refugees and Other Immigrants in the Global South
Presenters: Abel Chikanda, Jonathan Crush. July 4, 2018. Conference on Urbanization, Food Systems and Sustainability in the Global South, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
The Nature and Operations of the Informal Food Sector in Cape Town’s Food System
Presenter: Godfrey Tawodzera. July 4, 2018. Conference on Urbanization, Food Systems and Sustainability in the Global South, Balsillie School of International Affairs, CIGI Campus, Waterloo, Canada.
The Creation of Sustainable Cities for African Cities
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. July 4, 2018. Keynote at the Sustainable African Cities Conference, Accra, Ghana.
Some Aspects of Informal Food Economy in Nairobi City, Kenya
Presenter: Samuel Owuor. July 3-5, 2018. International Conference, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Ontario, Canada.
A Fading Subsidy: Cheap Industrial Food and Urban Poverty
Presenters: Bruce Frayne, Tony Weis, Marylynn Steckley. July 3-4, 2018. Urbanization, Food Systems and Sustainability in the Global South. Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.
Predisposing Vulnerability: Infrastructure Accessibility and Household Food Insecurity
Presenters: Bruce Frayne, Cameron McCordic, Jamie Sgro. July 3-4, 2018. Ten Years of Urbanization, Food Systems and Sustainability in the Global South. Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.
The Inclusion of Young Entrepreneurs in the City of Maputo’s Food Markets
Presenters: Ines Raimundo, Cameron McCordi. July 3, 2018. Presentation for Conference on Urbanization, Food Systems and Sustainability in the Global South (invited), the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.
Xenophobia and Migrant Entrepreneurship in South Africa
Presenter: Godfrey Tawodzera. June 28, 2018. Presentation to Masters Class, the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.
The Supermarket Revolution Revisited: Food System Insights from Cape Town, South Africa and Nanjing, China
Presenters: Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera, Zhenzhong Si. June 19, 2018. Brown bag Presentation at IDRC, Ottawa, Canada.
Attitudes and Agriculture: Barriers to Blending Values and Practices in the Design of Novel Urban Foodscapes
Presenters: Alesandros Glaros, Steffanie Scott. June 13-16, 2018. Presentation at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Madison, WI.
Fast-track Redevelopment & Slow-track Regularization: The Uneven Geographies of Spatial Regulation in CDMX
Presenter: Jill Wigle. May 29, 2018. Annual General Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Barcelona,
After the Exodus: Food Insecurity Among Zimbabwean Migrants in South African Cities
Presenter: Godfrey Tawodzera. May 28, 2018. Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.
Towards Strong Ecological Modernization of Agriculture: the Role of Social Economy in Nanjing, China
Presenters: Danshu Qi, Steffaine Scott. May 27-29, 2018. Presentation at the Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, Regina, Canada.
African Urbanisation and Socio-Economic Challenges
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. April 19, 2018. Global Leaders for Africa’s Development Programme, Cape Town, South Africa.
Smart Cities & Smart Systems in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. March 28, 2018. Next Einstein Forum Conference, Kigali.
The Food Insecurities of Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa
Presenter: Godfrey Tawodzera. February 1-3, 2018. ACC International Urban Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Ten Years of Urban Food Security Research Findings
Presenter: Bruce Frayne. February 1-3, 2018. Presentation and panel discussion, African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Experimentation Towards Sustainable Urbanisation
Presenter: Edgar Pieterse. January 29, 2018. ISTP, ETH Zurich Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
Food and the Constitution of the Urban in Malawi: Urban Sustainability in Feminist Postcolonial Perspective
Presenter: Liam Riley. 2018. Feminist Geography IGU Pre-Conference: Feminist Geographies 2018: in/during Troubled Times: Dialogues, Interventions and Praxis. Montréal.
Town Chiefs and Block Leaders: Social Conflict in the Devolution of Democracy in Urban Malawi
Presenter: Liam Riley. 2018. Canadian Association of African Studies Conference. Kingston.
Integrating SDG 5 into Urban Food Security Discourse
Presenter: Liam Riley. 2018. Urbanization, Food Systems and Sustainability in the Global South Conference. Waterloo.
Food Security in Africa’s Secondary Cities: No. 1 Mzuzu, Malawi
Presenter: Amanda Joynt. 2018.