November 2012

Framework for sustainable development education and lessons learned

  Today, educators face a compelling responsibility to serve society by fostering the transformations needed to set the path to sustainable development. The time has come to ensure that the concepts of education for sustainability - in the broadest sense - are discussed and woven into a framework upon which current and future educational policy is based. Understanding the principles of sustainability...

Author(s): Santosh Kumar Mishra

November 2012

Household food security in a coastal rural community of South Africa: Status, causes and coping strategies

  Food insecurity is a challenge in rural South Africa. This paper employed descriptive statistics, household food accessibility index, and ordinal regression analysis on a sample of 159 randomly selected households to model the risk of inadequate access to food among households in a coastal-rural community of Hamburg, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Data was collected using household...

Author(s): S. Ndhleve, L. Musemwa and L. Zhou