Douglas Nyathi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4098331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Nyathi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyathi |
| SIGNATURE | NYATHI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1310-627X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Youth Participation in Climate Action in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study explores the intricate barriers and potential pathways to achieving meaningful youth engagement in climate action across Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim was to critically examine the socio-structural factors that either hinder or facilitate effective participation. Employing a comprehensive desktop study methodology, this research synthesizes and analyzes a broad range of existing academic literature, policy reports, and documented case st…
Reimagining North-South Research Collaborations in the Face of Global Climate Change
The escalating impacts of global climate change and variability pose unprecedented challenges, particularly for the Global South, which bears a disproportionate burden of environmental change. The objective of this study was to examine how North–South research collaborations could strengthen climate change adaptation in developing regions by leveraging information and communication technologies (ICTs), identifying key barriers and enablers, and p…
Integrating National Development Plan 2030 Objectives into South African Marketing Strategies to Foster Sustainable Development
This study explored how South African businesses can align their marketing strategies with the National Development Plan (NDP), which emphasizes sustainability, inclusivity, technological innovation, and community engagement. Using a desktop research approach, secondary data were gathered from scholarly databases and reports to identify best practices and challenges in integrating NDP goals into marketing. Findings reveal that businesses can adva…
Climate-Induced Water Stress and Gendered Vulnerabilities
Climate change-induced water scarcity in Africa is magnifying pre-existing gender inequalities, particularly in urban settings where women disproportionately shoulder the burden due to socio-cultural roles and economic marginalisation. This qualitative case study, grounded in Social-Ecological Resilience Theory, explored the gendered dimensions of water insecurity and adaptive strategies among low-income women in Makokoba, one of Bulawayo’s oldes…
Disrupting Rural Transformation
Zimbabwe’s rural transformation agenda has long centred on agriculture as the engine of development, food security, and poverty alleviation. However, systemic failures in the agricultural sector have undermined these aspirations, giving rise to an alternative survivalist mode of economic engagement, the extractive economy. This study investigated how deep-rooted structural weaknesses, including policy inconsistencies, underinvestment, land tenure…
Urban Climate Change and the Realities of the Poor
Urban areas, particularly those inhabited by marginalized populations, face many challenges in promoting sustainable livelihoods and enhancing well-being. These challenges are further exacerbated by the direct and indirect consequences of climate change, amplifying pre-existing socioeconomic vulnerability and entrenching inequalities. A comprehensive understanding of the intricate relationships between urban poverty, climate-induced vulnerabiliti…
Using Community Nutrition Gardening as Rural Re-Greening and Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
Coping with chronically variable yields of food crops is critical for the survival of farm households in marginal environments where agro-climatic conditions are challenging. As such, to alleviate the effects of climate change, rural households implement various strategies, including community nutrition gardening, to tackle livelihood-related challenges. This study examines the role of community nutrition gardening as a strategy for adapting to c…
Motives and Constraints of Rural Livelihoods Diversification in Dry-Land Agrarian Settings of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Livelihood diversification is integral in increasing household resilience against shocks in the Global South. The study examines the motives and constraints to livelihood diversification. Participants were purposively selected from Springrange, Rocksdale and Fox farms. The results show that diversification of livelihoods is used as an adaptive strategy to respond to long-term reduction in purchasing power parity resulting from climatic and non-cl…
Complexities of Conflict
The conflict between humans and wildlife can result in negative impacts on both parties and hinder conservation efforts. By predicting how conflict risks may change with a growing agricultural sector and human population under a changing climate, policymakers can effectively allocate resources for mitigating and conserving conflict-prone species and regions. This study investigated the drivers of human-elephant conflict in Lupane, Zimbabwe, empha…
An Interrogation into the Effects of International Parenting on the Social and Emotional Health of Adolescents in Three Rural Districts of Zimbabwe
The changing geopolitical environment, economic transformations and technological advancements have prompted the intensified movement of people in a great diversity of forms. Transnational parenting has emerged as a significant and intricate global occurrence within today’s migration patterns. While scholarly and policy discussions on international parenting are increasing, there is a lack of firsthand narratives specifically addressing the situa…
Diagnosis of the Livelihood Vulnerability from Selected Resettlement Farms in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Burgeoning evidence suggests that rural households face a range of stressors and shocks. Using a qualitative strand, the study examines the drivers of livelihood vulnerability in selected farms in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Results insinuate that socioeconomic and historical contingencies are the overriding determinants triggering rural livelihood vulnerabilities to poverty. Erratic rainfall, lack of financial and social capitals in particular, had …
Multiplying Faces and Amplifying Voices
Women's invisibility in political spaces is a glaring reality, particularly in patriarchal polities characterized by misogynistic attitudes towards feminine leadership. This article unpacks the socio-cultural variables that hinder women's participation in politics and other masculinized spheres of influence. The article focuses on the advocacy efforts of Women's Institute for Leadership Development in Gwanda, Zimbabwe. The article also details th…
Understanding climate smart agriculture and the resilience of smallholder farmers in Umguza district, Zimbabwe
Climate smart agriculture has enhanced the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming in Umguza District of Zimbabwe. This study documents how smallholder farmers in Umguza District have responded to the adverse effects of climate change by venturing into small grains production, conservation farming and small livestock production. This paper discusses the vulnerability of smallholder farmers in Umguza District to climate change induced …
Factoring water harvesting into climate change adaptation
Climate change in the form of temperature increases and rainfall variability has intensified in the last three decades. Recent studies in Southern Africa (of which Zimbabwe is part) have indicated the extreme vulnerabilities of smallholder farmers to the impact of climate change and recommended that appropriate adaptation measures be put in place. In-field rainwater harvesting is one of the adaptation strategies that has been adopted by some smal…
Diversification and farm household welfare in Grasslands 'A' farm, Kwekwe District Zimbabwe
Motives and Constraints of Rural Livelihoods Diversification in Dry-Land Agrarian Settings of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Livelihood diversification is integral in increasing household resilience against shocks in the Global South. The study examines the motives and constraints to livelihood diversification. Participants were purposively selected from Springrange, Rocksdale and Fox farms. The results show that diversification of livelihoods is used as an adaptive strategy to respond to long-term reduction in purchasing power parity resulting from climatic and non-cl…
Diagnosis of the Livelihood Vulnerability from Selected Resettlement Farms in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Burgeoning evidence suggests that rural households face a range of stressors and shocks. Using a qualitative strand, the study examines the drivers of livelihood vulnerability in selected farms in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Results insinuate that socioeconomic and historical contingencies are the overriding determinants triggering rural livelihood vulnerabilities to poverty. Erratic rainfall, lack of financial and social capitals in particular, had …
Diversification and farm household welfare in Grasslands 'A' farm, Kwekwe District Zimbabwe
Factoring water harvesting into climate change adaptation
Climate change in the form of temperature increases and rainfall variability has intensified in the last three decades. Recent studies in Southern Africa (of which Zimbabwe is part) have indicated the extreme vulnerabilities of smallholder farmers to the impact of climate change and recommended that appropriate adaptation measures be put in place. In-field rainwater harvesting is one of the adaptation strategies that has been adopted by some smal…
Understanding climate smart agriculture and the resilience of smallholder farmers in Umguza district, Zimbabwe
Climate smart agriculture has enhanced the viability and sustainability of smallholder farming in Umguza District of Zimbabwe. This study documents how smallholder farmers in Umguza District have responded to the adverse effects of climate change by venturing into small grains production, conservation farming and small livestock production. This paper discusses the vulnerability of smallholder farmers in Umguza District to climate change induced …
Complexities of Conflict
The conflict between humans and wildlife can result in negative impacts on both parties and hinder conservation efforts. By predicting how conflict risks may change with a growing agricultural sector and human population under a changing climate, policymakers can effectively allocate resources for mitigating and conserving conflict-prone species and regions. This study investigated the drivers of human-elephant conflict in Lupane, Zimbabwe, empha…
An Interrogation into the Effects of International Parenting on the Social and Emotional Health of Adolescents in Three Rural Districts of Zimbabwe
The changing geopolitical environment, economic transformations and technological advancements have prompted the intensified movement of people in a great diversity of forms. Transnational parenting has emerged as a significant and intricate global occurrence within today’s migration patterns. While scholarly and policy discussions on international parenting are increasing, there is a lack of firsthand narratives specifically addressing the situa…
Diagnosis of the Livelihood Vulnerability from Selected Resettlement Farms in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Burgeoning evidence suggests that rural households face a range of stressors and shocks. Using a qualitative strand, the study examines the drivers of livelihood vulnerability in selected farms in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. Results insinuate that socioeconomic and historical contingencies are the overriding determinants triggering rural livelihood vulnerabilities to poverty. Erratic rainfall, lack of financial and social capitals in particular, had …
Multiplying Faces and Amplifying Voices
Women's invisibility in political spaces is a glaring reality, particularly in patriarchal polities characterized by misogynistic attitudes towards feminine leadership. This article unpacks the socio-cultural variables that hinder women's participation in politics and other masculinized spheres of influence. The article focuses on the advocacy efforts of Women's Institute for Leadership Development in Gwanda, Zimbabwe. The article also details th…
Youth Participation in Climate Action in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study explores the intricate barriers and potential pathways to achieving meaningful youth engagement in climate action across Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim was to critically examine the socio-structural factors that either hinder or facilitate effective participation. Employing a comprehensive desktop study methodology, this research synthesizes and analyzes a broad range of existing academic literature, policy reports, and documented case st…
Reimagining North-South Research Collaborations in the Face of Global Climate Change
The escalating impacts of global climate change and variability pose unprecedented challenges, particularly for the Global South, which bears a disproportionate burden of environmental change. The objective of this study was to examine how North–South research collaborations could strengthen climate change adaptation in developing regions by leveraging information and communication technologies (ICTs), identifying key barriers and enablers, and p…
Integrating National Development Plan 2030 Objectives into South African Marketing Strategies to Foster Sustainable Development
This study explored how South African businesses can align their marketing strategies with the National Development Plan (NDP), which emphasizes sustainability, inclusivity, technological innovation, and community engagement. Using a desktop research approach, secondary data were gathered from scholarly databases and reports to identify best practices and challenges in integrating NDP goals into marketing. Findings reveal that businesses can adva…
Climate-Induced Water Stress and Gendered Vulnerabilities
Climate change-induced water scarcity in Africa is magnifying pre-existing gender inequalities, particularly in urban settings where women disproportionately shoulder the burden due to socio-cultural roles and economic marginalisation. This qualitative case study, grounded in Social-Ecological Resilience Theory, explored the gendered dimensions of water insecurity and adaptive strategies among low-income women in Makokoba, one of Bulawayo’s oldes…
Disrupting Rural Transformation
Zimbabwe’s rural transformation agenda has long centred on agriculture as the engine of development, food security, and poverty alleviation. However, systemic failures in the agricultural sector have undermined these aspirations, giving rise to an alternative survivalist mode of economic engagement, the extractive economy. This study investigated how deep-rooted structural weaknesses, including policy inconsistencies, underinvestment, land tenure…
Urban Climate Change and the Realities of the Poor
Urban areas, particularly those inhabited by marginalized populations, face many challenges in promoting sustainable livelihoods and enhancing well-being. These challenges are further exacerbated by the direct and indirect consequences of climate change, amplifying pre-existing socioeconomic vulnerability and entrenching inequalities. A comprehensive understanding of the intricate relationships between urban poverty, climate-induced vulnerabiliti…
Using Community Nutrition Gardening as Rural Re-Greening and Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
Coping with chronically variable yields of food crops is critical for the survival of farm households in marginal environments where agro-climatic conditions are challenging. As such, to alleviate the effects of climate change, rural households implement various strategies, including community nutrition gardening, to tackle livelihood-related challenges. This study examines the role of community nutrition gardening as a strategy for adapting to c…
Motives and Constraints of Rural Livelihoods Diversification in Dry-Land Agrarian Settings of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Livelihood diversification is integral in increasing household resilience against shocks in the Global South. The study examines the motives and constraints to livelihood diversification. Participants were purposively selected from Springrange, Rocksdale and Fox farms. The results show that diversification of livelihoods is used as an adaptive strategy to respond to long-term reduction in purchasing power parity resulting from climatic and non-cl…
Geography (8 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Climate change impacts on agriculture (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Livelihood (5 works) · Socioeconomics (5 works)