On 5 March 2025, Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation GDHP team and the Irish Embassy in South Africa convened a policy roundtable to discuss how policy implementation can be strengthened to bring gender, food security, and GBV into the center of agricultural policy reform. The roundtable brought together key stakeholders, including the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, the Irish Ambassador to South Africa, government representatives, media, civil society organizations, the Embassy of Italy, and academic researchers. Discussions examined the inadequacies of South Africa’s legislative framework, the exploitative nature of commercial agriculture, and the urgent need for gender-responsive policies, derived from the project's recent study: A Promise not Fulfilled: GBV in South Africa’s Agricultural System. Read more...

The Gender Dimensions of Hunger in Peacebuilding (GDHP) research team convened in Dublin, Ireland in June 2024 to share the results from the ongoing project. The team met with policy and civil society stakeholders to disseminate findings from the recent working paper and policy brief on the integration of food security in the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. Drawing on a mixed-methods review of existing WPS policy documents, the study found that food security is relatively neglected in the agenda, even when compared to other domains of human security, and in contexts that have experienced severe food crises. Read more...

Summary of Conflict and Hunger workshop in Dublin

Call for papers, 15 May 2024

Seminar with Naledi Joyi at UCD, 30 November 2023

Seminar with Liezelle Kumalo at UCD, 29 November 2023