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A preliminary comparative perspective on the role of multinational enterprises in influencing labour relations of their host nation
(Services for Science and Education, 2021)This paper examines the operations of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in so far as they are able to influence the public and labour relations policy and law of their host nation with a special attentio ... -
Pressures on land in sub-Saharan Africa: Social differentiation and societal response
(Overseas Development Institute, 2012)This paper focuses on large-scale land acquisitions and the implications of these new trends for land tenure rights in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights trends in legal and policy approaches; describes and analyses new ... -
Principles and practice for successful farmland redistribution in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)The current debate on land reform in South Africa is unnecessarily polarised between those who believe that the market has failed to deliver, and those who believe that the bureaucracy has failed to deliver. Instead, we ... -
Proceedings of the second innovation lab: Supporting smallholders into commercial agriculture: a social dialogue and learning project
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)The Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) and the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS) are engaged in a project called Supporting Smallholders into Commercial Agriculture: ... -
Progressing community-based natural resource management in Zimbabwe
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)Zimbabwe is ushering in a new era of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). It is moving away from place-based wildlife management initiatives to more internationally linked forestry carbon projects which ... -
Property and accessing rights in public dams
(2017)South Africa has great potential for development and enhancement of inland fisheries through use of storage dams and lakes This potential remains largely under/unutilised Inland fisheries could promote rural livelihoods ... -
Protecting the standardised patient in TB scenarios: The South African study
(2019)SPs used in TB scenarios experience repeated exposure to TB in high risk settings. Exposure for each TB standardised patient.an average of 2.5 hours per facility - at least 19 times - over a five-week period.Public ... -
Psychological capital: The antidote for the consequences of organisational citizenship behaviour in industry 4.0 workplace
(Springer, Cham, 2021)Managing the associated consequences of the increasing demand for organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) is one of the common phenomena of concerns among professionals and scholars in the fields of Industrial/Organisational ... -
A qualitative study on resource barriers facing scaled container-based sanitation service chains
(International Water Association publishers, 2022)Container-based sanitation (CBS) is an increasingly recognised form of off-grid sanitation provision appropriate for impoverished urban environments. To ensure a safely managed and sustainable service, a managing organisation ... -
R&D the biggest business casualty of Covid-19?
(2021-06)While the overall economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is still unfolding, there are strong indications that it is causing the largest economic downturn since the 2008 financial crisis. In 2020, the South African ... -
Racial desegregation and the institutionalisation of ‘race’ in university governance: The case of the University of Cape Town
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2009-12)The racial desegregation of the student bodies of historically white universities in South Africa has had significant political implications for student politics and university governance. I discuss two key moments in ... -
Radical land reform is key to sustainable rural development in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)Sustainable rural development in 21st century South Africa will never be achieved without a radical assault on the structural underpinnings of poverty and inequality inherited from three centuries of oppression and ... -
Rangeland tenure and pastoral development in Botswana: Is there a future for community-based management?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2006)Botswana has a long history of attempts to ‘rationalise’ land tenure so as to improve livestock production, which remains a mainstay for the rural economy. This paper addresses the profound transformations in land tenure ... -
Rangelands at equilibrium and non-equilibrium recent developments in the debate around rangeland ecology and management
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003)The debate on equilibrium vs non-equilibrium dynamics in pastoral systems emerged in the early 1980s, when economists, ecologists and social scientists began to challenge the widespread claims of overgrazing and degradation ... -
Re-imagining resilient food systems in the post-Covid-19 era in Africa
(MPDI, 2021)The COVID-19 pandemic heightened awareness that serious illness and injury are common and important shocks that result in food insecurity, the loss of livelihoods, and unsustainable coping strategies. These have significant ... -
Real acts, imagined landscapes
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)Why do we want land and agrarian reform? Why should its policies be supported? Much can be said about its stated purposes and goals, but why do those goals matter — and to whom? If, as James Ferguson remarked earlier in ... -
Real acts, imagined landscapes: reflections on the discourses of land reform in South Africa after 1994
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)This paper discusses the discourses by which land reform policies in South Africa have been justified and criticized. Critical thought is needed about the underlying assumptions and frameworks informing policy and critique. ... -
A realist perspective of president trumps first un general assembly speech
(Academia, 2017)On 19 September 2017, president of the United States of America (USA), Donald Trump, took the podium at the New York-based institution of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). In his speech, Trump provided global ... -
Recommendations for revisions to inland fishery access rights and property rights regimes
(2011)• Deliverable Aims: • Evaluate and analyse existing property rights and access rights currently governing inland fisheries in South Africa • Recommend reforms or changes to the existing property rights regimes and access ... -
Reconciling living customary law and democratic decentralisation to ensure women’s land rights security
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)The recent Constitutional Court judgment rendering the Communal Land Rights Act (CLARA) unconstitutional (Tongoane and Others v Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs and Others) must not be allowed to throw dec ...