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Policy and institutional dimensions of integrated river basin management: Broadening stakeholder participatory processes in the Inkomati River Basin of South Africa and the Pangani River Basin of Tanzania

Chikozho, Claudious (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)

In recent years, water governance has undergone a remarkable paradigm shift. Old notions of water resources management dominated by a supply-orientation and reliance on civil engineering science and technical solutions to ...

Policy Brief 55: Food in the time of coronavirus: Why we should be very, very afraid

Hall, Ruth; Du Toit, Andries; Ramantsima, Katlego; Mtero, Farai; Gumede, Nkanyiso; Hara, Mafaniso; Isaacs, Moenieba; Monjane, Boaventura; Yeni, Sithandiwe (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2020-04-01)

The social legitimacy of the ‘COVID-19 lockdown’, government’s regulations imposed to contain the spread of the virus, is most likely to run aground unless an urgent plan can be made to ensure that everyone in the country ...

Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New Institutional Mechanisms?

Cliffe, Lionel (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)

Since the 2005 Land Summit, new approaches to land reform have been on the agenda, yet there remains little clarity on the way forward. The main focus has been on means of accelerating the redistribution of land ...

Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New institutional mechanisms?

Cliffe, Lionel (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-10)

Since the 2005 Land Summit, new approaches to land reform have been on the agenda, yet there remains little clarity on the way forward. The main focus has been on means of accelerating the redistribution of land through ...

Policy, politics and leadership in slum upgrading: A comparative analysis ofHarare and Kampala

Muchadenyika, Davison; Waiswa, Jeremy (Elsevier, 2018)

Slum upgrading is one of the preferred options in dealing with ubiquitous informality in cities across the world.Drawing on experiences in two African cities namely Harare and Kampala; the article focuses on the role ...

The political economy of global and regional agro-food system change

Cousins, Ben; Borras, Jun (2015)

Changes in the BRICS countries: What are key similarities/differences between the agrarian structures of Brazil, China and South Africa? What are the dynamics of change within these BRICS countries, in relation to the ...

The political economy of land governance in Africa: The role of universities in decolonising curricula and promoting critical scholarship

Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2019-10-08)

Decolonising the land requires decolonising our universities. In South Africa there is a live conversation about the need to decolonise our universities—an idea that expands beyond transforming our curricula, to drawing ...

The political economy of sugar in Southern Africa – introduction

Dubb, Alex; Scoones, Ian; Woodhouse, Philip (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

In this introductory paper we review historic and contemporary development of sugar cane production across the southern Africa. We argue that the region’s sugar industry provides a useful lens through which to understand ...

Political identity as temporal collapse: Ethiopian federalism and contested ogaden histories

Matshanda, Namhla Thando; Thompson, Daniel K (African Affairs, 2023)

Since the 1980s, analyses of African political identities have emphasized identity manipulation as a governance tool. In the Somali Horn of Africa, however, politicians’ efforts to reinvent identities confront rigid ...

Political violence in KwaZulu-Natal

Krelekrele, Thembela (CPLO, 2018)

After 25 years of democracy, political violence remains one of the greatest challenges that continuously undermine South Africa’s constitutional state. The province of KwaZuluNatal accounts for the majority of ...

Politics and higher education in East Africa from the 1920s to 1970

Mngomezulu, Bhekithemba Richard (Sun Media Bloemfontein, 2012)

The development of higher education in East Africa has a long history. For many years, the process was characterised by political wrangling, negotiations and compromises by black and white constituencies. What eventually ...

Politics and the practice of planning: the case of Zimbabwean cities

Muchadenyika, Davison; Williams, John J. (Elsevier, 2016)

Planning is intrinsically a political process. This paper explores how the practice and profession of planning has been affected by politics. Available evidence in Zimbabwe shows that planning is problematized by unsettled ...

The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico

Scoones, Ian; Hall, Ruth; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; White, Ben; Wolford, Wendy (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)

We welcome Rulli and D’Odorico’s response to our introduction to the Journal for Peasant Studies (JPS) Forum on Global Land Grabbing(Scoones etal.2013) in which we discussed the ‘literature rush’ that has accompanied the ...

The politics of knowledge: Knowledge management in informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town

Jacobs, Floortje; Jordhus-Lier, David; Tsolekile de Wet, Pamela (Springer, 2015)

t In situ solutions, participatory practices and the inclusion of community knowledge have become key ingredients in urban upgrading policies across the world. Knowledge, however, is not neutral, but value-laden, ...

The politics of social change and the transition to democratic governance: Community participation in post-apartheid South Africa

Williams, John J. (Juta, 2008)

Community participation, i.e. the direct involvement/engagement of ordinary people in the affairs of planning, governance and overall development programs at the local or grassroots level, has become an integral part of ...

The politics of youth participation in social intervention programmes in Ghana: Implications for participatory monitoring and evaluation (pm&e)

Boadu, Evans Sakyi; Ile, Isioma (Lifescience Global Canada Inc., 2018)

Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in project evaluation has gained impetus in recent literature. This paper interrogates youth participation in intervention programmes in Ghana with special reference to ...