Economic justice

Tshikululu Social Investments has prepared a short context document that looks at South Africa's political, socio-economic and company legislative environment (with an emphasis on matters affecting social investors). The report entitled ‘South Africa’s social investment context in 2010’ serves as a short introduction to the year ahead

In this article, Archbishop Njongo Ndungane reflects on the promise made by Malawi president, HE Bingu wa Mutharika to not go around begging for food and how that he has restored faith in Africa by demonstrating that the continent need not become the world’s basket case. He has done so by implementing effective ways to improve agriculture and combat food insecurity, but also shared these methods for the rest of the continent to benefit

Twenty of the world strongest trade countries came together to discuss global matters of trade and finance at the recent G20 meeting. Despite the broad and essential character of these economic matters, women’s ability to contribute to the world economy barely featured in the discussions and decision-making at the summit. Only two out of the 20 leaders who attended were women.

In Seasons of Hunger: Fighting Cycles of Quiet Starvation Among the World’s Rural Poor, published by Action Against Hunger, authors Stephen Devereux, Bapu Vaitla and Samuel Hauenstein Swan offer a timely reminder of a frequently overlooked aspect of hunger in the developing world: seasonality. Tracy Cull and Katharine Vincent explore the book and the possibility of setting up an international judicial mechanism which would compel states to comply with the right to food.