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Nicole Paganini

Programme Lead - Urban Food Futures

Nicole leads TMG's Urban Food Futures programme aiming at rethinking the urban-food nexus for more inclusive and resilient urban futures building on knowledge and visions co-created by communities in the respective research sites. Nicole's thematic interests include the right to food, co-creation of knowledge and feminist research approaches. Nicole obtained a PhD from Hohenheim University for her work on a food justice perspective on urban agriculture.

Nicole Paganini
Urban Food Futures
Urban Food Futures
Strengthening Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture
Strengthening Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture
Food system transformation requires a compass: Ours is the progressive realization of the right to food in low-income urban settings
Blog Post

Food system transformation requires a compass: Ours is the progressive realization of the right to food in low-income urban settings

TMG’s Urban Food Futures programme publishes its scoping report
Kitchens, gender and unlearning feminism
Blog Post

Kitchens, gender and unlearning feminism

Urban Food Futures research results presented at CSW67
Could “Urban Nutrition Hubs” offer a systemic response to entrenched hunger and inequality?
Blog Post

Could “Urban Nutrition Hubs” offer a systemic response to entrenched hunger and inequality?

Take aways from a policy engagement event in Cape Town
With pots and pens to parliament – Understanding and responding to crises through a critical feminist lens
Blog Post

With pots and pens to parliament – Understanding and responding to crises through a critical feminist lens

A blog commemorating Women’s Day in South Africa, 9 August
Empowered women: Re-imagining food and community in Cape Town
Blog Post

Empowered women: Re-imagining food and community in Cape Town

Project partners meet some women using community kitchens to drive social transformation in Cape Town's informal settlements.
Beyond Food Aid: A “Kitchen Retreat” reimagines community in the Cape Flats
Blog Post

Beyond Food Aid: A “Kitchen Retreat” reimagines community in the Cape Flats

A space to exhale, listen and learn
A Human Rights-Based Approach to Food Security in Kenya and South Africa

Report

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Food Security in Kenya and South Africa

Elizabeth Kimani-Murage, Maureen Gitagia, David Osogo, Antonina Mutoro, Nicole Paganini

Exploring rights-based approaches to food security in low-income urban settings

Cape Town’s Food and Nutrition Crisis: Crafting systemic responses to systemic challenges

Report

Cape Town’s Food and Nutrition Crisis: Crafting systemic responses to systemic challenges

Luke Metelerkamp, Lena Bassermann, Nicole Paganini

Highlights of policy event held from 18-19 November 2022 in Cape Town.

What's cooking? Adding critical feminist research to the pot

Working Paper

What's cooking? Adding critical feminist research to the pot

J. Battersby, K. Ben-Zeev, N. Buthelezi, I. Fabricci, M. Fakazi, S. Kiragu-Wissler, Y. Magazi, P. Njoroge, H. Nyaba, S. Nyaba, M. Nyambura, A. Owade, N. Paganini, C. Peters, W. Peukers, P. Silwana, E. Sango, J. Weru

How community kitchens, school feeding programmes and informal savings schemes support communities in time of crises and food insecurity

Food Flows: Community kitchens and gardens in Gugulethu, Cape Town

Info Brief

Food Flows: Community kitchens and gardens in Gugulethu, Cape Town

Deon Lottering, Kathrin Krause, Nomonde Buthelezi, Busi Selena, Pamela Silwana, Nicole Paganini, Jane Battersby, Gareth Haysom

Mapping existing community kitchens and gardens in the informal settlement Gugulethu in Cape Town

Urban Commons: Community kitchens, saving schemes, and school feeding programmes

Info Brief

Urban Commons: Community kitchens, saving schemes, and school feeding programmes

Jane Battersby, Keren Ben-Zeev, Nomonde Buthelezi, Matilda Fazaki, Serah Kiragu-Wissler, Patrick Njoroge, Sanelisiwe Nayaba, Atula Owade, Nicole Paganini, Caroline Peters, Wendy Peuker, Pamela Silwana, Edouard Sango, Mary Wambui, Samuel Wairimu,Jane Weru

Exploring the potential urban commons hold as spaces for social cohesion and nutrition justice

Dialing up Critical Feminist Research as Lockdown Dialed us Down: How a Pandemic Sparked Community Food Dialogs in Cape Town, South Africa

Article

Dialing up Critical Feminist Research as Lockdown Dialed us Down: How a Pandemic Sparked Community Food Dialogs in Cape Town, South Africa

Nicole Paganini, Keren Ben-Zeev, Khutala Bokolo, Nomonde Buthelezi, Sanelisiwe Nyaba, Haidee Swanby

A co-authored paper reporting on household food security during the pandemic in four neighborhoods of the Cape Flats

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