Jesuit Justice Ecology Network Africa (JENA) in collaboration with Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), and Global Justice Program, Yale University organized a webinar themed, “Transforming Africa’s Food System towards Poverty Eradication”, drawing insights from a rich pool of experts across the globe.
The webinar was held on December 7, 2022, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm East African Time. The webinar drew from the urgent need to reform the current food system to adhere to the present realities as the world works towards transitioning into sustainable food systems. The themes of the webinar and points of discussion captured the reality in most parts of the African continent and other parts of the globe coming to times with social and economic challenges.
The goal of the webinar and theme was to collate and share insights believed integral in driving the food security agenda in the face of growing development challenges likely to stem past successes and progress towards creating sustainable food systems that meets the needs of the region. The full report can be obtained by clicking here
Starting this year, Journal ASAP will confer three annual awards for poverty-focused academic work – all with nomination deadlines of 31 July 2023.
An ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.
An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject, published in 2022 and written by a single author or group of authors.
An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best collection of poverty-related essays by different authors published in 2022.
Eligible work may contribute to the definition, description, explanation, assessment or eradication of poverty and attend to any of the special challenges poor people face in regard to nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.
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Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.
Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain:
one page of biodata of the nominee, including educational background, positions held, affiations, honors and awards
two pages on the nominee’s contributions to the understanding and eradication of poverty
names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees.
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Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject written by a single author or group of authors and published in 2022.
Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain:
a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is beginning to have an influence
a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only);
names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.
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Book of the Year Award for the best collection of essays by different authors on a poverty-related subject and published in 2022.
Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain:
a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is begining to have an influence
a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only);
names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.
Award winner will be announced at the next Yale Global Justice Program Annual Conference, autumn 2023. Winning books will be reviewed by Journal ASAP and promoted through ASAP Social Media and the ASAP Newsletter.
Partnering in sponsoring this competition, Springer Nature will award its winners books of their choice from Springer’s Sustainable Development Goals Series.
To send a nomination or for any questions or comments, contact Michal Apollo at editor@journalasap.org.
In 2022, Academics Stand Against Poverty inaugurated the Ambedkar Grants for Advancing Poverty Eradication (AGAPE), providing competitive funding and mentoring for innovative pilot projects in severe poverty eradication with strong prospects of cost-effective scale-up. The first four grants have been made, and a new round of AGAPE grant funding for 2023 was announced.
ASAP continues to work closely with Yale’s Global Justice Program on various fronts. One key idea is to incentivize the development and deployment of innovations through publicly funded impact rewards rather than patent-based monopoly rents. This option is needed especially in the domains of green and health technologies. Impact rewards would take account of the third-party effects of innovations, make beneficial innovations much more affordable, and draw R&D efforts to the specific needs of the poor. In partnership with JENA and AHETI in Africa, and RIS in India, we have been pushing this idea at the T7 and T20 as well as at COP27.
Another joint effort is focused on the 42% of humanity who cannot afford a healthy diet – a horrendous silent catastrophe that is widely ignored, with a large percentage of global food production wasted or converted to biofuels.
2022 saw the retirement of Helen Lang as ASAP’s Global Coordinator and Helen Yanacopulos as Secretary of the ASAP Board with our gratitude for their great contributions over many years. We welcome Zeke Ngcobo as our new Global Coordinator and plan to add one or two Board Members soon.
Academics Stand Against Poverty is still more wish than reality. But if even just one in a thousand scholars and educators were actively to join us, we would stand a real chance to achieve at least that small shift in the global distribution needed to end the more severe forms of poverty.
Starting this year, Journal ASAP will confer three annual awards for poverty-focused academic work – all with nomination deadlines of 16 October 2022.
An ASAP Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.
An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject, published in 2021 and written by a single author or group of authors.
An ASAP Book of the Year Award for the best collection of poverty-related essays by different authors published in 2021.
Book of 2021 Award
Eligible work may contribute to the definition, description, explanation, assessment or eradication of poverty and attend to any of the special challenges poor people face in regard to nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications.
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Lifetime Achievement Award for constructive work related to poverty.
Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain: 1) one page of biodata of the nominee, including educational background, positions held, affiations, honors and awards; 2) two pages on the nominee’s contributions to the understanding and eradication of poverty; and 3) names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees.
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Book of the Year Award for the best book on a poverty-related subject written by a single author or group of authors and published in 2021.
Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain: 1) a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is begining to have an influence; 2) a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only); and 3) names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.
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Book of the Year Award for the best collection of essays by different authors on a poverty-related subject and published in 2021.
Nominations may come from any individual or organization and should contain: 1) a detailed assessment of the book, discussing its relevance to poverty, how it has broken new ground and how it is begining to have an influence; 2) a PDF copy of the book (for internal use only); and 3) names, affiliations and addresses of two suitable referees willing (probably) to contribute a review of the nominated book.
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Award winner will be announced at the next Yale Global Justice Program Annual Conference, 10-13 November 2022. Winning books will be reviewed by Journal ASAP and promoted through ASAP Social Media and the ASAP Newsletter.
To send a nomination or for any questions or comments, contact Michal Apollo at SIeditor@journalasap.org.
As the COVID-19 pandemic and global health exigencies show, many important vaccines, treatments, diagnostics, and other health technologies remain unaffordable or inaccessible to millions of people, many of whom suffer or die as a result.
We invite activists, academics, policymakers, industry representatives, and health professionals to contribute to an edited open-access volume advancing a human-centered approach to health innovations.
Contributors will be invited to present their draft essays at a hybrid workshop in New Haven, October 28-30, 2022.
AGAPE is an initiative by Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) to fund promising projects that will pilot innovative approaches to poverty eradication.
An exciting yet insightful and informative conference, in collaboration with ASAP, Yale University, the Global Justice Program, and Quinnipiac University took place over a span of three days. Many of the panel sessions centered around themes associated with technology, justice, and the use of artificial intelligence were discussed.
Our very own ASAP session hosted a number of ASAP members as speakers. We look forward to our next annual conference where we welcome and encourage all our members to share their projects and published papers.
To critically assess local, regional and/or global law and policy that have to do with sustainability and its crossover with a specific thematic area.
To explore different stakeholder views on a range of sustainability-related topics.
To seek international perspectives and exchanges about a range of sustainability-related topics and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.
Final Target:
National and international legal and political orders around the world.
Lead by:
Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School
Dr Rita G. Klapper, Manchester Business School
Thematic areas:
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (practice and education): led by Dr Rita G. Klapper (UK and international).
Gender: Led by Dr Kay Lalor (UK) and Dr Natalina Stamile (Italy)
Access to rights: Lea by Dr Jorge E. Núñez (UK and Latin America)
Poverty, Sovereignty and Economic Rights: Led by Dr Clarice Seixas Duarte (Brazil)
Climate change: Led by Dr Danielle Denny (Brazil)
Roundtable 1, Wednesday 27th April 2022 at 4pm BST
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Seb Carney, Head of Environment, Social, Governance, and Sustainability, Daisy Group
Thierry Roussin, CEO, AguiaLabs
Juris North Discussion Group Open to all platform
About this event
Juris North ASAP Roundtables 2022
“Global Response to crisis: sustainability, SDGs and climate change”
Aims:
. To critically assess local, regional and/or global law and policy that have to do with sustainability and its crossover with a specific thematic area.
. To explore different stakeholder views on a range of sustainability-related topics.
. To seek international perspectives and exchanges about a range of sustainability-related topics and explore possibilities for collaboration in terms of research, practice and education.
Final Target:
National and international legal and political orders around the world.
Lead by:
Dr Jorge E. Núñez, Manchester Law School
Dr Rita G. Klapper, Manchester Business School
Thematic areas:
• Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (practice and education): lead by Dr Rita G. Klapper (UK and international).
. Gender: Lead by Dr Kay Lalor (UK) and Dr Natalina Stamile (Italy)
• Access to rights: Lead by Dr Jorge E. Núñez (UK and Latin America)
• Poverty, Sovereignty and Economic Rights: Lead by Dr Clarice Seixas Duarte (Brazil)
• Climate change: Lead by Dr Danielle Denny (Brazil)
Hosts
Dr Rita Klapper, Reader in Enterprise and Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez, PhD in Law (University of Manchester, UK)
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Making Tourism a Force for Peace – A Call From Tourism and Hospitality Academicians and Students On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine and so began the largest assault on a European state since 1945.
• voice support for the call from Colombia, Guatemala, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, and Ukraine requesting the suspension of the membership of the Russian Federation from the UNWTO in accordance with Article 34 of the Statutes for conducting a policy, contrary to the fundamental aim of the Organization as enshrined in Article 3 of the Statutes of the UNWTO [12].
• call on the members of the World Travel and Tourism Council to suspend any business operations they have in the Russian Federation and to make the extent of their business operations in the country transparent to the travelling public.
• call on tourism-related academic departments and institutions to suspend all institutional relations with departments and institutions in the Russian Federation.
In order to fulfill the values of tourism as a force for peace, and to reinforce sanctions regimes we further encourage:
• all travel and tourism businesses to suspend their activities that enable tourist traffic to and from the Russian Federation.
• ask all tourists to not travel to the Russian Federation until such time as Russia has withdrawn from Ukraine and ceased its armed aggression in compliance with UN General Assembly Resolutions.
In conclusion, we invite representatives of the tourism and hospitality academy and students of tourism and related fields of study to sign this petition against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you support this initiative, please support our action by signing and by sharing:
Let us make a #TourismForceForPeace until justice has been served.
Authors:
Michal Apollo, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland; Global Justice Program, Yale University, USA; Academics Stand Against Poverty, USA
C. Michael Hall, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Oulu University, Finland; Linnaeus University, Sweden; Lund University, Sweden; Taylor\’s University, Malaysia; Co-editor, Current Issues in Tourism
This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism. It brings together interdisciplinary insights from leading academics, activists and researchers to envision progressive, anti-capitalist changes for the future of cities.
