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From Food Desert to Food Apartheid: A Capabilities Approach to Navajo Food Insecurity

In our new 2022/2023 masters students' blog series, Amelia J Van Komen disputes the current terminology we use around food insecurity...
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Star Wars: With Coruscant back on the screen maybe now is a good time to talk about urbanization here on planet Earth

Earth will never be an ecumenopolis like Coruscant but our cities are devouring the world...
Masters student blog series #1

How the Sustainable Livelihood Framework can increase WaSH access for marginalised groups

In our new 2022/2023 masters students' blog series, Kabir Dave discusses how our approach to providing acceptable levels of water, sanitation and hygiene access must be re-examined.

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