2025

Barriers and Facilitators to Engagement in Collective Gardening Among Black African Immigrants in Alberta, Canada

Community gardens are increasingly popular in Canadian cities, serving as transformative spaces where immigrants can develop self-reliant strategies for accessing culturally familiar and healthy nutritious foods. However, numerous facilitators and barriers exist that limit the engagement of racialized groups such as Black-identifying immigrants. Using a socio-ecological framework, this research explores barriers and facilitators of engagement

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Exploring Neighborhood Transformations and Community Gardens to Meet the Cultural Food Needs of Immigrants and Refugees: A Scoping Review

International migration is contributing to changes in the sociocultural and the economic landscapes of many cities in the world. As part of the changes in cities, we are witnessing an increased use of community gardens as spaces for wellbeing restoration, for social connection, and for addressing the challenge of food insecurity, particularly cultural food insecurity.

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Climate Change and Migration: A Call for a Continental-Level Research Agenda

Climate change is manifested through increased rates of droughts, heat waves, and storms that raise global temperatures and eventually affect populations. These are accompanied by increased migration, reduced productivity in agriculture, water shortages, and losses in fishing yield that spur people to look for better economic opportunities. The present study discusses some identified trends in

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Cross-Border Solidarity: Migrant-Led Associations as Spaces of Epistemic Resistance and Food Security Innovation in South Africa

In the midst of closure and securitization of border regimes, climate-change displacement, and entrenched inequalities, migrant communities are not just surviving but creating new sites of resistance, creativity, and adaptation to their worlds in crisis. This paper explores how migrant-solidarity organizations function as epistemic spaces of invention and resistance in South Africa among Zimbabwean, Pakistani,

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Sustainable Development Goals and Policy Frameworks for Development in Africa

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action adopted by all UN member states in 2015, aiming to end poverty,  protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all by 2030. The SDGs promote inclusive development through sustainable  economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection. Using secondary data analysis, this paper investigates the

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Sustainable Development in the Digital Age: Harnessing Technology for Global Climate Partnership in Africa

Although technology-driven interventions are central to global climate partnerships, Africa’s dual challenge renders implementation difficult. The continent is highly vulnerable to climate change and faces a significant digital divide, as over half the population lacks digital literacy and access. This results in underutilisation of technology for climate adaptation and resilience. While much research focuses on

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