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Rink, B. (2023). Public space on the move: Mediating mobility, stillness and encounter
on a Cape Town bus. Urban Studies, 60(15), 3027-3044.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221088123

Rink, B. (2023) Emplacing students through everyday mobilities: From practice to
theory, Transfers, 13(1/2): 55–67.
https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2023.13010205

Morgan, N. and Rink, B. (2023). The Past in Present African Urban Mobility Systems:
Towards a Mobilities Longue Durée. Urban Forum, 34(4): 413–418.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-023-09501-2

Morgan, N. and Rink, B. (Eds) (2023). The Past in Present African Urban Mobility
Systems, Special Issue of Urban Forum, Vol. 34(4).

M Vawda, R Lottering, O Mutanga, K Peerbhay, M Sibanda (2024) Comparing the utility
of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) on
Sentinel-2 MSI to estimate dry season aboveground grass biomass. Sustainability 16
(3), 1501.

Sibanda, M., Ndlovu, H.S., Brewer, K., Buthelezi, S., Matongera, T.N., Mutanga, O.,
Odidndi, J., Clulow, A.D., Chimonyo, V.G. and Mabhaudhi, T., 2023. Remote sensing
hail damage on maize crops in smallholder farms using data acquired by remotely
piloted aircraft system. Smart Agricultural Technology, 6, p.100325.

Maake, R., Mutanga, O., Chirima, G., & Sibanda, M. (2023). Quantifying Aboveground
Grass Biomass Using Space-Borne Sensors: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.
Geomatics, 3(4), 478-500.

Mpakairi, K. S., Dube, T., Sibanda, M., & Mutanga, O. (2023). Fine-scale
characterization of irrigated and rainfed croplands at national scale using multi-source
data, random forest, and deep learning algorithms. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing, 204, 117-130.

Abrahams, M., Sibanda, M., Dube, T., Chimonyo, V.G. and Mabhaudhi, T., 2023. A
systematic review of UAV applications for mapping neglected and underutilised crop
species’ spatial distribution and health. Remote Sensing, 15(19), p.4672.

Bangira T, Mutanga O, Sibanda M, Dube T, Mabhaudhi T. Remote Sensing Grassland
Productivity Attributes: A Systematic Review. Remote Sensing. 2023 Apr 12;15(8):
2043.

Mutanga, O., Masenyama, A. and Sibanda, M., 2023. Spectral saturation in the remote
sensing of high-density vegetation traits: A systematic review of progress, challenges,
and prospects. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 198, pp.297-
309.

Buthelezi, S., Mutanga, O., Sibanda, M., Odindi, J., Clulow, A.D., Chimonyo, V.G. and
Mabhaudhi, T., 2023. Assessing the prospects of remote sensing maize leaf area index
using UAV-derived multi-spectral data in smallholder farms across the growing season.
Remote Sensing, 15(6), p.1597.

Masenyama, A., Mutanga, O., Dube, T., Sibanda, M., Odebiri, O. and Mabhaudhi, T.,
2023. Inter-Seasonal Estimation of Grass Water Content Indicators Using Multisource
Remotely Sensed Data Metrics and the Cloud-Computing Google Earth Engine
Platform. Applied Sciences, 13(5), p.3117.

Gokool, S., Mahomed, M., Kunz, R., Clulow, A., Sibanda, M., Naiken, V., Chetty, K. and
Mabhaudhi, T., 2023. Crop monitoring in smallholder farms using unmanned aerial
vehicles to facilitate precision agriculture practices: a scoping review and bibliometric
analysis. Sustainability, 15(4), p.3557.

Crush, J. (Ed). (2023). Transforming Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa
(London: Palgrave Macmillan).

Crush, J. (2023). “Food Security, Equitable Development and South–South Migration:
Towards a Research Agenda” International Migration, 61: 341–344. 

Crush, J. (2023). “Governing for Food Security During the COVID-19 Pandemic in
Wuhan and Nanjing, China.” Urban Governance 3(2): 106-115.

Crush, J. (2023). “The Nanjing Model: Comprehensive Food System Governance,
Localization and Urban Food Security in China” Global Food Security 38: 100709.

Crush, J. (2023). “Pathways to Food Insecurity: Migration, Hukou and COVID-19 in
Nanjing, China. Population, Space and Place 29(1): 1-15.

Crush, J. (2023).’A Foreigner is Not a Person in This Country’: Xenophobia and the
Informal Sector in South Africa’s Secondary Cities” Urban Transformations 5: 2.

Crush, J. (2023). “Opportunity and Survival in the Urban Informal Food Sector of
Namibia.” Businesses 3(1): 129-149.

Crush, J. (2023). “COVID-19 and Urban Food Security in Ghana During the Third
Wave.” Land 12(2): 504.

Crush, J. (2023). “Food Insecurity and Dietary Deprivation: Migrant Households in
Nairobi, Kenya.” Nutrients 15(5): 1215.

Crush, J. (2023). “Urban Food Insecurity and the Impact of China's Affordable Food
Shop (AFS) Program: A Case Study of Nanjing City.” Applied Geography 154: 102924.

Crush, J. (2023). “Food Insecurity, Food Sourcing and Food Coping Strategies in the
OOO Urban Corridor, Namibia” In L. Riley and J. Crush (eds.), Transforming Food
Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa (London: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 169-190.

Crush, J. (2023). “African Secondary Food Systems in Context” In L. Riley and J. Crush
(eds.), Transforming Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa (London: Palgrave
Macmillan), pp. 1-24.

Kanosvamhira TP. (2024). Urban Agriculture and the Sustainability Nexus in South
Africa: Past, Current, and Future Trends. Urban Forum 35, 83–100.

Kanosvamhira. T.P. (2023). The institutionalisation of urban community gardens in
Cape Town, South Africa. AREA. DOI: 10.1111/AREA.12911

Kanosvamhira. T.P. Follmann, A. & Tevera. D. (2023).Experimental urban commons?:
Re-examining urban community food gardens in Cape Town, South Africa. The
Geographical Journal. DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12553

Kanosvamhira TP. (2023). How do we get the community gardening?: grassroots
perspectives from urban gardeners in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Cultural
Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/08873631.2023.2187509

Kanosvamhira. T.P. Follmann, A. & Tevera. D. (2023).Experimental urban commons?:
Re-examining urban community food gardens in Cape Town, South Africa. The
Geographical Journal. DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12553

Tevera, D. (2023). Secondary Cities and Urban Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, In:
Riley, L., and Crush, J. (Eds). Book: Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary
Cities in Africa, (London: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 133-147.

Popular and non-accredited publications:

Erin Torkelson, Melisew Djenne Lemma, Nathanael Ojong and Ebenezer Owusu-Addo.
“The Urgent Need for Expanded Cash Transfers in Africa.” UN Office of the Special
Advisor for Africa. New York: United Nations.

Patrick Bond, Milford Bateman, Lena Lavinas and Erin Torkelson. “Grant Distribution
Failures Foil Financial Inclusion.” Independent Online. 23 September 2023.

Erin Torkelson, Abby May and Michael Marchant. “Net1 and CPS: Welfare Profiteers.”
Daily Maverick. 25 May.

Patrick Bond, Milford Bateman, Lena Lavinas and Erin Torkelson. “Appointment of
World Bank President Ajay Banga Threatens More Prolific Bank Poverty Creation.”
Counterpunch. 14 April.

Patrick Bond, Milford Bateman, Lena Lavinas and Erin Torkelson. “New World Bank
President Ajay Banga’s Predatory Finance Background." ZNet. 13 April.

Patrick Bond, Milford Bateman, Lena Lavinas and Erin Torkelson. “Incoming World
Bank President Ajay Banga’s Promotes Predatory Financial Inclusion. Committee for
the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt. 12 April.

Olsen, Jared, “Can the World Bank’s New CEO Change Their Toxic Lending
Practices?” Truth Dig. 6 September 2023.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram, “Debt-Pushing as Financial Inclusion,” Interpress Service. 4
October 2023.

Kanosvamhira, T. P. (2024). Healthy food is hard to come by in Cape Town’s poorer
areas: how community gardens can fix that. The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/healthy-food-is-hard-to-come-by-in-cape-towns-poorer-
areas-how-community-gardens-can-fix-that-215742

Kanosvamhira, T., Follmann, A., and Tevera, D. (2023) Cultivating hope: urban
community gardens as beacons of resilience in the neoliberal city – a case study in
Cape Town, South Africa. Geography Directions. https://doi.org/10.55203/MTCY3667

Sithole, S., Tevera, D., & Dinbabo, M. F. (2023). Emerging Digital Technologies and
Cross-Border Food Remittances of Zimbabwean Migrants in Cape Town, South Africa,
During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic. MiFood Paper No. 9, Waterloo.
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