Making archaeology relevant to global challenges: a Global South perspective

Chirikure, Shadreck

Archaeology provides records of past successes with food security and crops fit for purpose (Logan et al. 2019). [...]to tackle the global challenge that is hunger, archaeology must produce solutions. Inequality, access to health care and wellbeing, poverty eradication, safe settlements and climate change are some of the local issues with a global resonance. Unfortunately, some of these interests are far removed from the everyday needs of populations languishing in hunger, poverty, inequality and suffering the effects of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic (Chirikure et al. 2010;Logan et al. 2019;Dandara et al. 2021). Since the launch of this agenda, academics, businesspeople, policy leaders and community leaders, among others, have engaged to translate this vision into reality (DeGhetto et al. 2016).