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Infographics
Key Considerations: Alleviating Chronic Food Insecurity in South Sudan
This infographic summarises key considerations from a SSHAP brief on responding to food insecurity in South Sudan authored by Tong Anei and Leben Moro. The infographic highlights the importance of investing in agriculture and livelihoods, enhancing market access and infrastructure, and…
Briefing
Key Considerations: Alleviating Chronic Food Insecurity in South Sudan arfr
The Republic of South Sudan has experienced chronic food insecurity for decades and particularly in the last five years. This chronic food insecurity is a result of a combination of factors, including protracted conflicts, socio-economic fragility, lack of infrastructure, climate…
Journal Article
The symbolic violence of ‘outbreak’: A mixed methods, quasi-experimental impact evaluation of social protection on Ebola survivor wellbeing
Despite over 28,000 reported cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the 2013-16 outbreak in West Africa, we are only beginning to trace the complex biosocial processes that have promoted its spread. Important questions remain, including the effects on survivors…
Journal Article
‘The Suffering is Too Great’: Urban Internally Displaced Persons in the Casamance Conflict, Senegal
The paper addresses the dearth of studies of displaced people living in urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa through a survey of a particular group of internally displaced persons (IDPs) created by Senegal’s Casamance conflict. Analysis of survey data shows how…
Journal Article
Reaching the end goal: Do interventions to improve climate information services lead to greater food security?
Through household surveys, focus group activities, and participant observation, this research investigates linkages between CIS, uptake of CSA practices, and household food security through investigation of four research sites, two in Senegal and two in Kenya. Through household surveys, focus…
Problems endure despite policies: Urban livelihoods after forced displacement
This chapter considers issues related to urban development-caused forced displacement and resettlement and the legal and policy approaches developed to address them to assess what difference national and international policies and guidelines have made to the outcomes of urban forced…
‘Latent’ surplus populations and colonial histories of drought, groundnuts, and finance in Senegal
This article draws on Marx’s concept of ‘latent’ surplus populations to trace out and explain parallels between IBAI and colonial interventions in Senegal’s groundnut basin. Approaching the question in this way, the article highlights the long-run historical co-production and interdependence…
It’s Only a Matter of Hope: Rethinking Migration Decision-Making in Contemporary Senegal; Among Lived Immobilities, Development Interventions, and Social Inequalities
This article stems from ethnographic research conducted in three Senegalese contexts: Louga, Diaobé, and the Saloum Islands. The underemployment of young people, deagrarianization, and other phenomena are intertwined with a growing criminalization of displacement and an irregularization of international migration.
How do places of origin influence access to mobility in the global age? An analysis of the influence of vulnerability and structural constraints on Senegalese translocal livelihood strategies
This paper investigates how place-related vulnerability and structural constraints influence the way Senegalese households construct translocal spaces and livelihood strategies in the global age.
Flexibility in return, reconstruction and livelihoods in displaced villages in Casamance, Senegal
The paper argues that livelihoods research in situations of violent conflict and its aftermath can contribute to geographical understandings of flexibility. Such settings paradoxically demand greater flexibility from economic actors while imposing new and sometimes severe constraints on them to…
Journal Article
Understanding malnutrition management through a socioecological lens: Evaluation of a community-based child malnutrition program in rural Uganda
The objective of this evaluation was to understand the factors influencing malnutrition management in a CMAM program in rural Uganda, using the socioecological model to assess the multilevel determinants of outpatient malnutrition management. This evaluation used qualitative methods to identify…
Journal Article
Similar, yet different! Comparing Ugandan secondary cities’ food system and nutritional transformations to findings from African primary cities.
This research focuses on the food, farming and health experiences of two secondary cities of Uganda (Mbale and Mbarara), comparing findings with studies of primary African cities.
