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Item Open Access Teaching Global Development: Practical Approaches for Inclusive, Critical, and Decolonized Pedagogy.(Bloomsbury Publishing., 2026-05-25) Elisheva Cohen; John-Michael Davis; Ruth Murumba; Мary Jane Parmntier; Marylynn SteckleyThe first volume of its kind, Teaching Global Development offers a unique open access collection of current approaches to teaching development in ways that foreground core ethical issues. Hailing from a range of disciplines and from across the world, the contributors gathered here describe what global development means in their context, offer strategies for more ethical syllabi, describe innovative ways to explore equity and diversity through readings and activities, and provide detailed case studies of GDS-related programs. Throughout, these chapters showcase new and innovative approaches to service learning, lesson plans, and activities that demonstrate what critical, decolonized, DEI-sensitive knowledge actually looks like. For its topical breadth, theoretical sophistication, and uniquely concrete examples and suggestions, this book is a must-read for scholars, instructors, and students interested in the ethics not only of global development, but also of curriculum-setting and pedagogy more broadly. The ebook editions of this book are available open accessunder a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on Bloomsbury collections. com. Open access was funded by Indiana University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.Item Open Access Food Security and Safety: The Role of Knowledge Coproduction and Sustainable Food Production in Africa. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change.(Palgrave Macmillan, 2026-05-25) Olugbenga Samuel Falase; Alexis Beyuo; Ruth N. MurumbaFood insecurity remains a scar on the conscience of humanity given that approximately one billion people on earth suffer from malnutrition and hunger with Africa bearing this brunt. The myriad challenges associated with attaining food security have been the impetus for formulating Goal 2 of the UN SDGs. In keeping with the desired goal of zero hunger by 2030, the need to both support and enlist the expertise of small-scale farmers in knowledge coproduction is paramount. This chapter examines avenues for knowledge coproduction between small-scale food crop growers and agro-technocrats for sustainable food production in Africa by curating and synthesizing relevant tertiary literature from online repositories. Findings show that food security is hindered by government policy support for cash crop production to the neglect of perishable food crops. Other challenges identified were prevalence of pests, postharvest losses and lack of access to land given that landless farmers had to give two-thirds of their harvest to landlords. The chapter therefore recommends instilling knowledge coproduction among agro-technocrats and recalibrating land laws in favor of the food-poor in the study areas.Item Open Access Overview of human trafficking and its implication on Africa’s development.(CEDRED, 2019) Kinuthia, Cyndi; Komen, L; Mbogoh, BItem Open Access How do we tell them? Ensuring reproductive health among adolescents in Kenya and beyond(Twaweza Communications Limited, 2015-01-01) Njoroge, Martin C.; Gakenia, GladysThis paper focuses on the sexual and reproductive health of the adolescents. It specifically addresses the issues on whom should tell the adolescents and when they need to be told about sexual and reproductive health related issues. The focus on adolescent sexuality is in line with the Millennium development goals which recognizes the fact that the rights, safety, health and well being of children and young people are imperative to a nations developmentItem Open Access A New kind of Development in Africa(CEDRED, 2019-01-01) Chiroma, Jane AdhiamboItem Open Access Discourses on Sustainable Development in Africa(CEDRED, 2020-01) Chiroma, Jane AdhiamboItem Open Access Agricultural Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa Capacity, Enabling Environment and Applications in Crops, Livestock, Forestry and Aquaculture(Springer, 2022) Rege, John Edward Otieno and Sones, KeithSub-Saharan African countries were categorized with regard to their capacity for agricultural biotechnology research and application, including human capacities, institutions and facilities, operational budgets and existence of facilitating networks. For the crop and livestock sectors combined, no countries were categorized as having ‘very high’ capacity; only South Africa was categorized as ‘high’; and three countries, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria, were categorized as ‘medium’. All other SSA countries were categorized as having ‘low’ or ‘very low’ capacity. Capacity was generally higher for crops than for livestock. For the crop sector, South Africa was categorized as ‘very high’; Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe as ‘high’; and Botswana, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Eswatini and Zambia as ‘medium’ capacity. For livestock, South Africa was ‘high’ and Kenya and Nigeria ‘medium’. Strong links to international partners, such as hosting a CGIAR centre, tended to be associated with higher capacity.