IPORA

Research axes

Epistemic communities & African agentivity: Environment, health ecology & environmental safety

Epistemic communities & African agentivity: Environment, health ecology & environmental safety

Research in general, and in particular research on human societies that have developed their own cultures and their own referential mixes in the course of coloniality and globalisation, cannot do...

Agrifood systems

Agrifood systems

In 2023, the prevalence of moderate and severe food-insecurity in Africa was the highest in the world and yet still increasing (FAO, 2023). Recent estimates from the Food Price for Nutrition...

Domestic pollution

Domestic pollution

Air pollution is a growing environmental concern, and a major global health threat.  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), exposure to ambient (outdoor) and household (indoor) air...

Global Health inequities

Global Health inequities

Health inequities (presence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences in achieving optimal health and well-being among people) are persistent and urgent challenges globally and locally...

Social equity in the context of informality

Social equity in the context of informality

This research axis was born in WP7, in which researchers from the disciplines of economics, political science and law jointly questioned the relationship between informality and social equity....