Development and education that sustain: Expanding value chains in agriculture, mining and higher education in southern Africa

Rosenberg, Eureta; Shumba, Overson; Ngoma, Justine; Cobban, Leigh

Title: Development and education that sustain: Expanding value chains in agriculture, mining and higher education in southern Africa
Creator: Rosenberg, Eureta
Creator: Shumba, Overson
Creator: Ngoma, Justine
Creator: Cobban, Leigh
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2021
Date: 2021
Type: text
Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435811
Identifier: vital:73203
Identifier: ISBN 978-3-030-74693-3
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74693-3_16
Description: Deep sustainability, as defined in this chapter, requires a rad-ical conceptual shift, and aligned practical strategies for cre-ating livelihoods and value in new ways. This chapter ex-plores an expanded value chain approach through which in-dustries, communities and higher education institutions in Af-rica can transition towards development that sustains eco-systems and society. An analysis is presented, based on ex-amples from agriculture and mining, two of the most signifi-cant industries on the continent, as well as higher education. The analysis is done by applying key concepts to existing case studies from Zambia and South Africa, and then explor-ing implications for higher education institutions. The chapter concludes that possibilities for more sustainable and shared value creation are already evident in the selected industries, but achieving the shifts required is challenging. Higher edu-cation emerges as having a very significant role to play, through new curriculum and research directions, with greater local relevance, to enable graduates and industries to critical-ly and creatively engage with the challenges on the road to greater sustainability. In this way, higher education institu-tions would become partners in expanded, shared value cre-ation towards deep sustainability.
Format: 19 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Relation: Rosenberg, E., Shumba, O., Ngoma, J. and Cobban, L., 2021. Development and education that sustain: Expanding value chains in agriculture, mining and higher education in southern Africa. In Sustainable Development in Africa: Fostering Sustainability in one of the World's Most Promising Continents (pp. 279-298). Cham: Springer International Publishing
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