Browsing by Author "Hall, Ruth"

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    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Final Report 

      Hall, Ruth; Jacobs, Peter; Lahiff, Edward (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      Land dispossession was a key feature of racism under colonial rule and apartheid in South Africa. More than 3.5 million people were forcibly removed in the period 1960 to 1983 alone, through homeland consolidation, removals ...

    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land redistribution 

      Jacobs, Peter; Lahiff, Edward; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      Land dispossession during the colonial era and the decades of apartheid rule produced a highly unequal pattern of land ownership and widespread rural poverty in South Africa. When a democratically elected government came ...

    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Rural restitution 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      During the negotiated transition to democracy, many South Africans expected that liberation would bring the return of land they had been dispossessed of under colonialism and apartheid, but the terms on which the transition ...

    • Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa 

      Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      Agrarian change in South Africa over the past two decades has seen consolidation of the hegemony of large-scale commercial farming and corporate agribusiness within agro-food systems. Constrained domestic demand and growth ...

    • Expropriation Bill of 2015 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
      The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is a constituent unit of the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape. PLAAS engages in research, training, policy development and advocacy ...

    • Extension of Security of Tenure Bill of 2015 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
      The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) welcomes the initiative to amend the Extension of Security of Tenure Act, 62 of 1997. PLAAS is a constituent unit of the School of Government at the University ...

    • Farm workers and farm dwellers in Limpopo, South Africa: Struggles over tenure, livelihoods and justice 

      Wisborg, Poul; Hall, Ruth; Shirinda, Shirhami; Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
      Stories about farm workers and dwellers losing their homes, land and livelihoods are common in contemporary South Africa, and also in Limpopo Province. Around 1988, Grace M.1 and her children were evicted from a Limpopo ...

    • Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush 

      Scoones, Ian; Hall, Ruth; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; White, Ben; Wolford, Wendy (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
      The most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food in 2007–2008 has heightened the debate on the consequences of land investments, with widespread media coverage, policy commentary ...

    • A fresh start for rural development and agrarian reform? 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
      The commons (or common-pool resources)1 are the most important resources in southern Africa. The livelihoods of the majority and economies of most countries depend on them. Although common property regimes are often ...

    • A fresh start for rural development and agrarian reform? 

      Hall, Ruth (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009-07-29)
      The new cabinet ushered in after the 2009 national elections features new and renamed ministries. Those expected to take the lead in a new initiative to resuscitate the rural economy are the Ministry of Rural Development ...

    • Global land deals: What has been done, what has changed, and what’s next? 

      Hall, Ruth; Wendy W, Wolford; Ben, White; Scoones, Ian (The Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2024)
      In 2010, the Land Deals Politics Initiative formed to study the rising number of large-scale land deals taking place around the world. As the so-called ‘global land grab’ took shape, we organised small grant competitions ...

    • Governing global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for land 

      Wolford, Wendy; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; Hall, Ruth; Scoones, Ian; White, Ben (Wiley, 2013)
      Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as a ‘global land grab’, new land acquisitions ...

    • The impact of land property rights interventions on investment and agricultural productivity in developing countries: a systematic review 

      Lawry, Steven; Samii, Cyrus; Hall, Ruth; Leopold, Aaron; Hornby, Donna; Mtero, Farai (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      We conducted a systematic review on the effects of land tenure recognition interventions on agricultural productivity, income, investment and other relevant outcomes. We synthesise findings from 20 quantitative studies and ...

    • The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
      This thematic paper investigates emerging trends evident in the limited literature available on the impact of land restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking about, and planning for, livelihoods. The ...

    • The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods 

      Hall, Ruth (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
      This report investigates emerging trends evident in the limited literature available on the impact of land restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking about, and planning for, livelihoods. The report has ...

    • Inclusive business models in agriculture? Learning from smallholder cane growers in Mozambique 

      Sulle, Emmanuel; Hall, Ruth; Paradza, Gaynor (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      Amidst the increasing corporate investment in African farmland the term ‘inclusive business model’ has become a catchphrase touted as an opportunity for incorporating smallholder farmers alongside large-scale commercial ...

    • Inclusive business models in agriculture? Learning from smallholder cane growers in Mozambique 

      Sulle, Emmanuel; Hall, Ruth; Paradza, Gaynor (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
      Amidst the increasing corporate investment in African farmland the term ‘inclusive business model’ has become a catchphrase touted as an opportunity for incorporating smallholder farmers alongside large-scale commercial ...

    • International and regional guidelines on land governance and land-based investments: An agenda for African states 

      Sulle, Emmanuel; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      Global and regional guidelines have been developed in the period 2009–2014 to improve land governance in the context of large-scale land acquisitions in developing countries. These provide an opportunity for affected ...

    • International and regional guidelines on land governance and land-based investments: An agenda for African states 

      Sulle, Emmanuel; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)

    • Intertwined histories: JPS at 50, La Via Campesina at 30 

      Hall, Ruth; Grajales, Jacobo; Jacobs, Ricardo (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      The Journal of Peasant Studies was founded 50 years ago, in 1973, amidst an oil price crisis, the end of the gold standard and the beginning of the debt crisis, an agrarian famine in Bangladesh, and what some consider the ...