Abstract Food security remains a major sustainability challenge in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. has numerous determinants that are complex and interlinked, with one them being social capital. Social capital reflects an individual’s, household’s, or community’s networks, interactions, support systems can be mobilized times need to maintain, among others, livelihoods food security. This stud...

We examine the relation between venture capital (VC) investments and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity around the world. We find evidence of a strong positive association between VC investments and lagged M&A activity, consistent with the hypothesis that an active M&A market provides viable exit opportunities for VC companies and therefore incentivizes them to engage in more deals. We als...

Communications services that facilitate or encourage the forming and bridging of social groups serve an important human need. Such services, therefore, should offer high value. The problem for service planners, however, is to predict the value of these services before they are offered, and to ensure pricing that will actually achieve the desired group forming. In this paper we derive a new form...

Asset developer decision-making is often neglected in energy systems models. We describe a new reverse-engineering method to bridge this gap, informing key policy and investment interventions needed achieve ambitious net-zero targets.

Given that the communities which are most vulnerable to HIV often have little control over their own lives and their health-related behaviour, HIV prevention policies increasingly recommend that HIV prevention projects work to build relationships with powerful external groups (i.e., build "bridging social capital"). To aid conceptualisation of how community organisations may build such social c...