by Katharine Vincent | Nov 16, 2011 | Projects, Publications, Training
The Climate Risk and Vulnerability Handbook for Southern Africa is now available for download. Hard copy versions will be available for purchase from www.kalahari.com. The handbook, produced by CSIR, Kulima and the Climate Systems Analysis Group as part of the...
by Katharine Vincent | Nov 9, 2011 | Projects, Publications
Kulima and Oxfam have today released “Overcoming the barriers: How to ensure future food production under climate change in southern Africa”. The report is based on interviews with farmers in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, whose...
by Katharine Vincent | Apr 7, 2011 | Publications
Katharine Vincent and Tracy Cull wrote a review of the book “Portfolios of the Poor: How the world’s poor live on $2 a day”, which has been published in the latest issue of the journal Progress in Development Studies (volume 11, number 2, April...
by Katharine Vincent | Mar 31, 2011 | Publications, Short-term assignments
The Institute for Environmental Security and The Centre, Brussels, will host a presentation of the recent publication “Climate Change and Security in Africa: Vulnerability Report” on 8th April in Brussels. The document contains the results of research...
by Katharine Vincent | Feb 24, 2011 | Publications
Dr Alec Joubert has recently been cited in an article in South Africa’s Financial Mail. In “The Heat is On”, by Stafford Thomas, Alec talks of the projected nature of climate change in South Africa. Climate change is an inconvenient truth, as former US vice-president...
by Katharine Vincent | Jan 11, 2011 | Publications
The paper “Cell phones, electronic delivery systems and social cash transfers: Recent evidence and experiences from Africa” by Dr Katharine Vincent and Ms Tracy Cull has just been published in the journal International Social Security Review. The paper is based on...