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Transforming Africa’s food systems: a smallholder farmers’ perspective 非洲粮食系统转型:小农视角

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-06 DOI: 10.1332/lpzj2396

Vine Mutyasira

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引用次数: 0

Third place social infrastructure, after and in crisis: insights from a local case study 第三名:危机后和危机中的社会基础设施:来自当地案例研究的见解

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-06 DOI: 10.1332/dgkx7851

Kelly Bogue, Sinead Ouillon

引用次数: 0

Doing harm: the impact of UK’s GCRF cuts on research ethics, partnerships and governance 伤害:英国削减GCRF对研究伦理、伙伴关系和治理的影响

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-06 DOI: 10.1332/gjsz3052

Zibah Nwako, Tigist Grieve, R. Mitchell, J. Paulson, Tania Saeed, Kelsey Shanks, Rachel Wilder

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引用次数: 4

Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals as a boundary object in the City of Bristol 利用可持续发展目标作为布里斯托尔市的边界对象

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-13 DOI: 10.1332/bbzq5931

K. Burger, Martin Parker

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引用次数: 0

More than a metaphor: ‘climate colonialism’ in perspective 不仅仅是一个比喻:“气候殖民主义”的观点

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-13 DOI: 10.1332/eiem6688

Gurminder K. Bhambra, P. Newell

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引用次数: 8

Reflections on food systems transformation: an African perspective 对粮食系统转型的思考:非洲视角

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1332/oyyl3696

Agnes Kalibata

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引用次数: 2

Equity in Global North–South research partnerships: interrogating UK funding models 全球南北研究伙伴关系中的公平:对英国资助模式的质疑

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1332/vqil8302

Adrian Flint, G. Howard, M. Baidya, T. Wondim, Moti Poudel, A. Nijhawan, Yohannes Mulugeta, Subodh Sharma

引用次数: 5

The pandemic and the contradictions of contemporaneity 流行病与当代性的矛盾

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1332/nmeo9015

B. Santos

引用次数: 1

For a reparatory social science 作为一门补偿性的社会科学

Global Social Challenges Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1332/hieo9991

Gurminder K. Bhambra