African Studies Center

at Michigan State University

Projects located in South Africa:

Projects taking place in South Africa
African Activist Archive
This project aims at preserving a record of the activities of organizations and individuals in the U.S. who supported the struggles for freedom and democracy in Africa from 1960-1994 with special attention given to the anti-apartheid movement. Among other things, the project has collected materials produced by these organizations and preserved them in archives at depository institutions.
Afrobarometer
The Afrobarometer conducts a comparative series of national public attitude surveys to measure the social, political and economic atmosphere in Africa. Results are shared with decision makers, policy advocates, civic educators, journalists, researchers, donors and investors, as well as average Africans who wish to become more informed and active citizens. The third round of surveys has been expanded to include 18 countries.
Agriculture Biotechnology Support Program at the Institute of International Agriculture (IIA)
A multi-regional, multi-partner program that has researched various agricultural crops in Egypt and South Africa, as well as training and policy-related projects in East Africa, Southern Africa, Egypt, Kenya and Uganda.
EQUATE
Begun in 2003, EQUATE is a USAID initiative working to provide technical assistance to USAID missions and strengthen their work to promote gender equality in basic education. Current activities include strengthening activities related to gender in basic education in Zambia and South Africa.
In Pursuit of Access and Equity: Race, Gender and Institutional Change in South Africa
Reitumetse Mabokela has designed this project in order to understand the experiences of marginalized populations of Blacks and women in South Africa. Her project investigates how race and gender informs people's professional lives and leadership identities. This project also aims to influence policies to increase access and equality for these groups.
Internet Access for Disadvantaged South African Communities: A Partnership between Tertiary Institutions and Disadvantaged Communities in Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa) for Capacity Building and Using Internet Technology
This project aims to build and promote the use of the internet for community based organizations in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. The project is a collaborative venture between esATI, MSU and community based organizations.
Language Research Training Project with North-West University
This project works to train faculty in the English Department at North-West University to develop skills for conducting theoretical and applied research in language studies. The goals of the project are to provide NW University English faculty with the tools necessary to conduct research, to contribute to the research literature, and to successfully participate in grant competitions.
Negotiating Environment and Development in South Durban: Communities, Industries, and the State
This project focuses on the way in which black and white Durban communities mobilized to mitigate pollution in the industrial zone following apartheid, as well as investigating sustainable waste management programs.
Partnership for Food Industry Development—Fruits and Vegetables (PFID-F&V)
PFID - F&V project collaborates with public and private partners to increase the competitiveness of small and medium scale producers in local, regional and international markets.
Rural and Agricultural Incomes with a Sustainable Environment (RAISE)
MSU and RAISE work in collaboration to assist public and private policymakers and aid agencies on measures to ensure food safety and promote other environmentally-sound strategies for economic growth in Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia.
South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
This project is creating educational materials and designing curricula about the end of apartheid and beginnings of democracy in South Africa. It will be available on the Internet.
South African Film and Video Project (SAFVP)
This project is designed to provide access for American and African scholars to Southern African films and videos. The project is creating an on-line database to provide access to film and video records held by many different media archives in Southern Africa.
South African Higher Education Resources
This directory includes contact information on all South African universities, technikons, higher education consortia, and associations, background documents on South African higher education, as well as numerous policy documents and speeches from the South African Department of Education. The project began in 1998 as part of the MSU support for the Higher Education Forum of the U.S-South African Bi-National Commission.
South African National Cultural Heritage Training and Technology Program
South African National Cultural Heritage Training and Technology Program. This collaborative project aims at identifying and training people in a variety of different professional positions to use new media and best professional practices when working in South Africa on cultural heritage projects.
South African Traditional Arts Exhibition
This project aims to create a traveling exhibition on different aspects of South African cultural heritage to museums within South Africa and the U.S. and a series of smaller regional exhibitions at cultural resource centers throughout South Africa.
Southern African Maize Marketing and Trade Project, with the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
Michigan State University and regional partners are collaborating on analysis and outreach dedicated to promote food security in Southern Africa through improved regional maize marketing and trade networks. The countries involved in the project include Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia.
The Center for Global Change and Earth Observations
The mission of CGCEO is: To specifically address the international aspects of the coupled social, land and climate systems in global environmental change studies using advanced geospatial tools, models, and observations. The overarching goal of CGCEO is to contribute to the understanding of the interrelations among human, land, and climate systems in an international context, as reflected in MSU’s Boldness by Design. Building on existing strength in interdisciplinary approaches to understand the social processes, land use and land cover patterns and processes, and environmental impacts and responses at regional to global scales, the Center addresses the following key science questions: How are social processes altering and impacting global environmental dynamics? How do these changes, in turn, respond to and affect land and human systems? The research activities at the Center attempt to identify, understand and model land surface processes, determine and quantify socioeconomic root causes of and responses to global change, and assess human/animal health and ecosystem services.
Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
TIMSS is an international study designed to compare the achievements of students, national systems, and instructional resources available in science and math for approximately 50 countries, including in South Africa and Tunisia.
Projects taking place in the region of Southern Africa
African Activist Archive
This project aims at preserving a record of the activities of organizations and individuals in the U.S. who supported the struggles for freedom and democracy in Africa from 1960-1994 with special attention given to the anti-apartheid movement. Among other things, the project has collected materials produced by these organizations and preserved them in archives at depository institutions.
Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP)
The Bean / Cowpea CRSP has worked in collaboration with dozens of institutions in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa to generate knowledge and technical outputs that contribute to increased bean/cowpea production, utilization, and consumption. The project has implemented measures to become self-sustaining.
Epilepsy in Southern Africa
This research project aims to understand the high incidence of epilepsy in Southern Africa and the social and economic consequences of the stigmatizing of adults with epilepsy. The project’s aim is to design community-based interventions to improve the lives of people with epilepsy.
Partnership for Food Industry Development—Fruits and Vegetables (PFID-F&V)
PFID - F&V project collaborates with public and private partners to increase the competitiveness of small and medium scale producers in local, regional and international markets.
Study of Insecticide Treated Bed Nets
The purpose of this project is to understand how insecticide treated bed net function behaviorally, ecologically, and epidemiologically in sub Saharan Africa.