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Dr Vongai Murugani
Researcher
Dr Vongai Murugani
Dr Vongai Murugani was a Researcher in the Food, Peace and Security Programme at SIPRI.
Vongai has worked as an Associate Consultant in an Agribusiness and Climate Change unit, where she worked on climate change and food security in Southern Africa. Prior to this she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher on food security focusing on smallholder farming schemes, climate smart agriculture and market access in rural South Africa. She enjoys the complexity of transdisciplinary research and working in partnership with communities to make a difference.
Subject expertise
Food security, gender and women’s empowerment, nutrition sensitive agriculture
Regional expertise
Southern Africa, especially South Africa and Zimbabwe
Languages
English, Shona
Education
PhD Food Security, University of KwaZulu-Natal; M.Sc. Food Security, University of KwaZulu-Natal; B.Sc. Food Science and Technology, University of Zimbabwe
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Gender equality for resilience and peacebuilding (Blog, )
- Feeding peace (Blog, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Financing Food Security: Promises and Pitfalls of the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in South Sudan (SIPRI, Stockholm : January 2023)
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Sri Lanka (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2023)
- The World Food Programme’s Contribution to Improving the Prospects for Peace in Ethiopia (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2022)
- Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Case Studies of Venezuela and Yemen (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Pathways and Interconnections (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2021)
External publications
- Murugani, V. G. and Chitja, J. M., How does Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Affect Household Food Security & Dietary Diversity? The Case of Rural Irrigation Schemes in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Agrekon.58 (3): 308 - 323 (2019)
- Mabhaudhi, T., Murugani, V. G., et al, Mainstreaming underutilised indigenous and traditional crops into food systems: A South African perspective – a review, Sustainability, 2019, 11, 172 (2019)
- Murugani, V. G. and Chitja, J. M., Livelihoods Assets and Institutions for Smallholder Irrigation Farmer Market Access in Limpopo South Africa, International Journal of Water Resources Development. 32 (4): 259-277 (2018)
- Chitja, J. M., Murugani, V. G., et al, Empowerment of women through water use security, land use security and knowledge generation for improved household food security and sustainable rural livelihoods in selected areas in Limpopo, Water Research Commission (WRC) Report 2082/1/15, (2015)
- Murugani, V. G., Thamaga-Chitja, J. M. and Kolanisi, U., Rural women’s land rights: towards a gender sensitive property rights framework, J Hum Ecol, 46(2): 205-221 (2014)
- Thamaga-Chitja, J. M., Kolanisi, U. and Murugani, V. G., Is the South African land reform programme gender sensitive to women’s food security and livelihood efforts?, Agenda 24(86): 121- 134 (2010)