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By Alice McClure, University of Cape Town and Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town It’s difficult as an individual, a group or a nation to know how to act when faced with climate change problems. As with other global environmental…

By Anna Taylor, University of Cape Town Cape Town’s “Day Zero” experience – the prospect of dam levels dropping dangerously low, taps running dry and water rations being distributed from public collection points – speaks powerfully to the urgency and…

Tackling climate change in cities involves a wide array of coordinated and sustained actions across a range of sectors and scales, requiring collaboration and shared knowledge. Embedded research is one approach to address this complexity – it involves co-producing robust…

Thanks to Anna Taylor, embedded researchers coordinator, and to the embedded researchers who contributed to this article: Brenda Mwalukanga (Lusaka), Hécralito Mucavele (Maputo), Kornelia Iipinge (Windhoek), Lulu van Rooyen (Durban), Rudo Mamombe (Harare) and Sandra Zenda (Harare). Back to the…

Like many other cities in southern Africa, Harare, the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe, is experiencing changes in temperatures and rainfall patterns that could threaten the long-term availability of water and energy. Despite the criticality of these issues,…

We are delighted to welcome Mzime Ndebele-Murisa as Program Specialist managing START’s involvement with the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) program. Before joining START, Mzime worked as a regional climate change expert and Deputy Dean at Chinhoyi…

START is managing three grants aimed at developing a city-region knowledge base and a practitioner network to support co-production of climate risk narratives in Africa. The Chinhoyi University of Technology (Zimbabwe), the  Polytechnic, University of Malawi and the University of…

March has been a busy month for the FRACTAL project, with a week-long training for the embedded researchers in Cape Town, and the first city learning labs for Maputo and Windhoek taking place. START traveled to Windhoek for the city…