Published May 13, 2024, by CoE-FS
Date: Thursday, 23 May 2024
Time: 16h00 – 18h00 (SAST)
Chaired by Professor Stephen Devereux (CoE-FS Principal Investigator)
Session description: Analysing the role of social safety nets in building resilient communities and ensuring food security for all.
Presentations:
- Overview of the research themes of the SARChI: Social Protection
- Research findings: Social grants, public works, homelessness, and food security indicators
- The “normalisation of hunger” in South Africa
- SARChI partnership: Women on Farms Project
- SARChI partnership: Food Equity Centre.
Speakers bios
Professor Stephen Devereux
Professor Stephen Devereux is a Research Fellow and founding Director of the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. His research focuses on social protection for food security, famine, rural livelihoods and poverty reduction.
