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Small-scale fisheries (SSF) policy: A handbook for fishing communities
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Small-scale fisheries governance and understanding the snoek (Thyrsites atun) supply chain in the Ocean View fishing community, Western Cape, South Africa
(Resilience Alliance, 2013)Postapartheid fisheries reform in South Africa, through the Marine Living Resources Act (MLRA) 18 of 1998, used individual transferable quotas (ITQs) to broaden resource access through allocating quotas to new entrants, ... -
Smallholder Aagriculture and land reform in South Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2005)How canland reformcontribute toa revitalisationof smallholder agriculture inSouthernAfrica?Thisquestion remains important despitenegativeperceptions of land reformas a result of the impactofZimbabwe’s “fast-track” resettlement ... -
Smallholder irrigation schemes, agrarian reform and ‘accumulation from above and from below’ in South Africa
(Wiley & Blackwell Publishing, 2013)A key issue in debates on agrarian reform in South Africa is the potential for small-scale farming, in conjunction with redistributive land reform, to make a significant contribution to employment creation and poverty ... -
Smallholder views on Chinese agricultural investments in Mozambique and Tanzania in the context of VGGTS
(MDPI, 2023)Based on a case study in each country, this study documents the views of Mozambican and Tanzanian smallholders regarding Chinese agricultural investments and the extent to which investors abide by their legitimate land ... -
Smallholders and agro-food value chains in South Africa: Emerging practices, emerging challenges
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)A key emerging strand in the development of smallholder agriculture in South Africa is the effort to integrate smallholders into corporate food retail value chains. In this, the private sector and government have a ... -
Smallholders and agro-food value chains in South Africa: Emerging practices, emerging challenges
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)A key emerging strand in the development of smallholder agriculture in South Africa is the effort to integrate small-holders into corporate food retail value chains. In this, the private sector and government have a common ... -
Smartphone owners need security advice. How can we ensure they get it?
(CONF-IRM and AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2016)Computer users often behave insecurely, and do not take the precautions they ought to. One reads almost daily about people not protecting their devices, not making backups and falling for phishing messages. This impacts ... -
The social and cultural aspects of small-scale agricultural production in South Africa and the implications for employment-intensive land reform
(GTAC, 2020-03-31)There is widespread agreement that Government interventions to support smallholders have often been poorly constructed (Khulisa, 2016; Aliber & Cousins, 2013) and have failed to produce positive impacts (Okunlola et al, ... -
Social assistance and dignity: South African women’s experiences of the child support grant
(Routledge, 2015)Many women interact with the South African social security system in relation to the Child Support Grant (CSG), which is social assistance payable for children living with low-income caregivers. This paper explores women’s ... -
Social differentiation and the politics of land: Sugar cane outgrowing in Kilombero, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The privatisation of formerly state-owned sugar cane estates and mills in the late 1990s led to the reconfiguration of the ownership structure and production of the Tanzanian sugar industry. This included the decentralisation ... -
Social differentiation and ‘accumulation from below’ in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal
(2014)South Africa has a highly unequal distribution of agricultural land > hence land reform BUT Who should be the primary beneficiaries of redistributive land reform? How can land redistribution address the structural ... -
The social dynamics of rural poverty in the Eastern Cape
(2017)Overview • Structural poverty & its causes • Understanding impoverished livelihoods : i. Social grants ii. Informal economic activity • Social dynamics • ‘Informal social protection’ • The downside of ‘social capital’ -
Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter?
(Food Security, 2019)Large numbers of South Africans receive social grants (public transfers) or remittances (private transfers), and yet one in four South Africans is food insecure. The purpose of this paper is to address two questions: do ... -
Social Policy in South Africa: The challenges of poverty, inequality and exclusion
(2018)South Africa is currently emerging from a political and socio-economic crisis. A political faction largely based on patrimonialism threatened to destroy the economy and thus social service delivery. With the recent election ... -
Social protection responses to COVID-19 in Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2021)Most African countries implemented measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 during 2020, such as restrictions on business activity and travel, school closures and stay-at-home lockdowns for several months. These ... -
Social protection, citizenship and the employment relationship
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-03)This paper addresses the issues of social protection, citizenship and the employment relationship through the lens of South Africa. All ideologies of welfare have at their heart assumptions both about the nature of ... -
Social protests and water service delivery in South Africa
(2013-09-13)• To identify the key drivers of water-related social protests, roles of organization and mobilization and dynamics of perceived deprivation. -
Social Protests and Water Service Delivery in South Africa
(2013-09-13)To develop: • Clear understandings of the linkage between social protests and water service delivery. • An evaluation framework to enable government, municipalities and other stakeholders to more effectively address ... -
Social reproduction of ‘classes of labour’ in the rural areas of South Africa: contradictions and contestations
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Marxist agrarian political economy has focused largely on the problematic of accumulation and its politics, but the dynamics of social reproduction in rural contexts remain somewhat undertheorised. These are explored through ...