African Farmer Game
African Farmer is a free, open source game that simulates the complex decisions and uncertainties faced by small-scale farmers living in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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African Farmer is a free, open source game that simulates the complex decisions and uncertainties faced by small-scale farmers living in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Examining relationships between farm and non-farm activities in rural economies in three Southern African countries.
The Unequal Voices project - Vozes Desiguais in Portuguese - examines the politics of accountability in health systems in Brazil and Mozambique, exploring how accountability can be used to deliver better health services for citizens everywhere.
Running innovation prizes that will improve poor people's resilience to climate change.
Over three years, this project examined how conflict, local governance and peace-building arrangements in the rural margins of Kenya and Ivory Coast are affected by new, large-scale investments in resource exploitation.
The objective of this research is to improve the prospects for accountability for food security at a time of volatility. This will be achieved through an exploration of the proposition that recent popular mobilisation around food has activated public accountability for hunger.
This project is a response to the initial DFID-ESRC 'Resource scarcity, growth, and poverty reduction' call and it is titled "Tangled in their (own) safety-nets?: Resilience, adaptability, and transformability of fishing communities in the face of the World fisheries crisis.
Improved agricultural productivity in Africa is seen as a major priority for achieving poverty reduction, food security and inclusive economic growth. The role of new technology - and in particular seed technology and systems - is seen as an important potential contributor.
This 3-year project looks at what the commercialisation of land and agriculture might mean for growth and poverty reduction in Africa.
Project led by Sussex University to research migration as an adaptive response to climate change and the role of cash transfers.