Prof. Anwar Fazal, 1982 Right Livelihood Award Laureate and Director of the RLC, has published a new book: “Our Cities, Our Homes: People, Places and Passions” (Think City). The book carries some of Anwar’s most important thoughts and ideas, with a focus on urbanisation and sustainability, and captures some of …
Community members of Sanjay Nagar, one of Mumbai’s largest informal areas (slums), hosted RLC Bonn researchers Prof. Eva Youkhana and Amit Kumar in February 2018. Amit currently conducts fieldwork on individuals and collective struggles of people-without-paper staying in unrecognised slums of Mumbai, in cooperation with RLA Laureate Medha Patkar’s …
RLC PhD student Juliet Wanjiku Kamau attended BIOFACH 2018, a world organic trade fair which brings together stakeholders in the organic food sector, and participated in discussions on challenges currents trends in the organic food sector. This year’s trade fair was held in Nuremberg, Germany. Juliet was in accompanied by …
Picture by: Nayla Azzinnari The German public TV station WDR produced a critical documentary on the negative impacts of the fusion of the major chemical companies Bayer and Monsanto on agricultural practices, the environment and the livelihoods of farmers. All the field work of the German TV in Córdoba was organized …
On the international day of women and girls in science, RLC Alumni Judith Akello shares her research with us on: Unlocking the Socio- Economic Development Potentials: Women’s Experiences of Functional Adult Literacy (FAL) in Northern Uganda Education is a human right that must be accessed throughout life. All ages, adults …
