Using household data from the 2009 General Household Survey, this paper examines the role of natural resource scarcity in rural development in South Africa, with a particular focus on water scarcity. It seeks to examine whether there is a direct link between household water and economic poverty...

This paper uses the sustainable livelihoods framework to explore the contribution of smallholder production to food security in some sub-Saharan African countries and relates it to the South African case. Noting that many of the world’s hungry are smallholder farmers, it is clear that...

In April-May of this year, the AERC and UNU-WIDER offered an online course on climate change. The course — Climate Change Science and Modelling Biophysical Impacts — is a three-week online course covering the current science on climate change and its biophysical implications. It is designed...