Emmanuel Ndhlovu is a senior research fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a PhD from the University of South Africa. His research interests include agrarian political economy, food systems, food security, land reform, agriculture and agribusiness, and social policy. His recently authored books include Agriculture, Autonomous Development and Prospects for Industrialisation in Africa and Social Policy in Southern Africa: Prospects and Possibilities. Ndhlovu has edited more than 12 books.

Clement Chipenda is a senior research fellow at the University of South Africa's College of Graduate Studies, where he contributes his expertise to the SARChI Chair in Social Policy. He is also a co-investigator in the research project "The Social Policy Dimensions of Land and Agrarian Reform in International Perspective." His research interests include agrarian political economy, agro-food systems, transformative social policy, children's rights and child protection, social security, as well as youth and gender studies.