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Issues specific to urban and rural contexts, including migration, environment, economics, food systems, and property rights.

Resilience in West African Frontier communities

Principal Investigator: Marie Rodet. Lead Organisation: School of Oriental & African Studies

Co-investigators: Friederike Luepke; Bakary Camara; Elara Bertho

Energy on the Move: longitudinal perspectives on energy transitions among marginal populations (a comparative study)

Examining the energy practices of very poor women, men and young people living in informal settlements in peri-urban situations in Nigeria, South Sudan, Nepal and Bangladesh and how these are changing, drawing comparative lessons.

How the Urban Poor Define and Measure Food Insecurity and Nutrition

Principal Investigator: Cecilia Tacoli. Lead Organisation: International Institute for Env and Dev

Co-investigators: Somsook Boonyabancha; Anna Maria Walnycki; Alice Marin Sverdlik; David Satterthwaite

Urbanisation in low-income nations presents both opportunities and immense challenges.

Shifting In/equality Dynamics in Ethiopia: from Research to Application (SIDERA)

Principal Investigator: Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta. Lead Organisation: Institute for Peace and Security Studies

Co-investigators: Kidane Kiros Bitsue; Jennifer Elizabeth Hodbod; Edward Geoffrey Jedediah Stevenson; Fana Gebresenbet Erda; Emma Jayne Tebbs

Safe and sustainable cities: human security, migration, and well-being

This project seeks to incorporate migrant perspectives and sources of innovation into urban planning to build safer and more sustainable cities, addressing environmental sustainability, poverty, and conflict and security.

Group photograph of displaced people affected by flooding in Beletweyne, Somalia.

Security on the move: everyday security of IDPs in rapidly growing Somali cities

Principal Investigator: Jutta Bakonyi. Lead Organisation: Durham University

Co-investigators: Ali Ali; Peter Chonka; Nimo Ali; Kirsti Stuvoey

Pathways out of poverty for Burkina Faso's reservoir-dependent communities

Principal Investigator: Marlene Elias. Lead Organisation: Bioversity International

Co-investigators: Idrissa Ouedraogo; Mansour Boundaogo; Sarah Jones; Traore Aurokiatou Tiegoue; Mark Mulligan; Natalia Estrada Carmona; Fabrice DeClerck

Assessing the impact of the food system on poverty, nutrition and health, and environmental sustainability in urban Ethiopia

Principal Investigator: Wafaie Fawzi. Lead Organistion: Harvard University

Unrest in Nigeria. Charred vehicle remains after a bomb blast at Terminus market in Jos.

Development frontiers in crime, livelihoods and urban poverty in Nigeria (FCLP)

This mixed-methods research aims to bring together key development concerns related to sustainable livelihoods, social vulnerability, and poverty to build an alternative account of 'insecurity and crime' in African cities.

Pastoralists in the Afar Region, Ethiopia

Water-security in Ethiopia and the emotional response of pastoralists (WEEP)

Principal Investigator: Paul Hutchings. Lead Organisation: Cranfield University.

Co-Investigators: Barbara C. Van Koppen (International Water Management Institute IWMI); Alison Parker (Cranfield University); Bethel Gebremedhin (International Rescue Committee, IRC)

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