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Remediating Sub-Saharan airline challenges and limitations
(AOSIS, 2022)Air transport connectivity to and within Africa is provided by both African and non-African airlines. These carriers are confronted by both intrinsic and extrinsic challenges, which constrain their ability to provide the ... -
Report on an international symposium: The politics of poverty research and pro-poor policy making: Learning from the practice of policy dialogue
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Report on review of the current status of the pilot Certificate in School Business Administration (CSBA) 2008-2009: Guidelines for CSBA 2010
(University of the Western Cape: School of Business and Finance, 2010)Executive Summary: By almost any measure, most South African public schools, and schools in the Western Cape, are underperforming academically. For a number of years, there has existed a wide degree of consensus among ... -
Representation concerning the terms of reference on the grocery retail sector market inquiry
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)We, the undersigned civil society organisations / individuals work on food security and other issues in the agro-food system in South Africa. We have noted the concentration of corporate and financial power throughout ... -
Representing Hamilton
(Taylor & Francis group, 2017)In his most important book to date, Freedom is Power: Liberty Through Political Representation (2014b), Lawrence Hamilton offers what he describes as a realistic theory of freedom for modern conditions, located in the ... -
“Reproducing the social”: Contradictory interconnections between land, cattle production and household relations in the Besters Land Reform Project, South Africa
(Routledge, 2019)Land redistribution policy in South Africa emphasises commercial farming as the legitimate use of land. This production-oriented framework fails to take into account the intertwined but unstable relationship between the ... -
Reproducing toxic election campaigns: Negative campaigning and race-based politics in the Western Cape
(Sabinet, 2015)The 2014 election in the Western Cape was once again a high-stakes, fiercely-contested affair. Political parties saw the Western Cape as an ‘open race’ and the province became the centre of vigorous campaign efforts ... -
Research findings: Models of commercial agriculture in Kenya
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)Kenya provides a compelling case study of market driven agricultural evolution over the past century. Agriculture played a singular role in the development of the modern Kenyan economy, and while Kenyan agriculture was ... -
Research findings: Models of commercial agriculture in Kenya
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)Kenya provides a compelling case study of market driven agricultural evolution over the past century. Agriculture played a singular role in the development of the modern Kenyan economy, and while Kenyan agriculture was ... -
Research Report to Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development in South Africa (PSPPD)
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This report documents research conducted on small-scale informal self-employment at the margins of the South African economy. Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment South Africa has, by developing country ... -
Reshaping women’s land rights on communal rangeland
(National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC) (Pty) Ltd, 2013)This paper aims to contribute to the debates on communal rangelands and analyses the gendered dimension of land rights and land access in the rural areas of Namaqualand. The actual gender relations within rural communities ... -
Resilience and response-ability: Towards just water service provision the context of climate change
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)Climate change will impact on water service provision, yet it is not integrated into water sector policies and plans. This paper unpacks some of the reasons for this disjuncture: the complex and overwhelming challenge of ... -
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique
(Wiley, 2022)After nearly two and a half decades with a Land Law widely considered progressive, Mozambique is preparing to revise its legal framework for land. Land activists accuse the government of pursuing an authoritarian approach, ... -
Resisting informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town: The battle between developmental and informal governance
(Academia, 2019)The paper explores the peculiar politics of popular resistance to the upgrading of an informal settlement in Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town, following a major fire in 2017. The paper traces the politics around the response to ... -
Resource rents, savings behavior, and scenarios of economic development
(Elsevier, 2023)The paper revisits the nexus between natural resources and economic growth from the lens of development economics. It augments the traditional dual-sector economy model by the assumption that in addition to capitalists, ... -
Resources and rights: Water and land in rural development
(PLAAS, 2009-11)Both the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs (DWEA) and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) acknowledge the importance of water reform jointly with land reform. What does integrated planning ... -
Response to Prathama Banerjee's sovereignty and ascendancy: south Asian reflections
(Academia, 2018)In this fantastic, wide-ranging but closely argued paper Prathama Banerjee makes the case that the concept of sovereignty is not a universal concept, but rather that it has a particular, substantive meaning developed in ... -
Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)This study examines the experience of land reform beneficiaries after land acquisition in three communal property associations (CPAs) in Limpopo province, namely Munzhedzi, Ximange and Mavungeni CPAs. In all three cases, ... -
Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo
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Restitution of land rights amendment bill 2013
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)1.1. This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...