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A scan of rural civil society
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)PLAAS commissioned Phuhlisani to undertake a review of rural civil society, to explore innovative ways in which researchers and organisations in rural civil society can work together in linking research to policy ... -
Schmidtsdrift community land claim
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)The historic land of the Schmidtsdrift community lies along the banks of the Vaal River in the Northern Cape province, along the R300 road to Griquastad, approximately 71 km west from Kimberley and 53 km north-east from ... -
Scoping study on the development and sustainable utilisation of inland fisheries in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)South Africa’s inland fishery resource endowment has been overlooked as a means of supporting sustainable livelihoods in the democratic era, lacking a guiding policy and legislation aligned with the country’s rightsbase ... -
Scoping study on the development and sustainable utilisation of inland fisheries in South Africa: Volume 2. Case studies of small-scale inland fisheries
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Small- scale fishing on inland waters is a widespread livelihood activity which has been overlooked in environmental policy and management arrangements flowing from South Africa’s democratic Constitution. This has ... -
Seasonal food insecurity among farm workers in the Northern Cape, South Africa
(Nutrients, 2019)Very little is known about seasonal hunger in South Africa, or about the food security and nutritional status of farm workers. This article identifies a pathway to seasonal hunger—through intra-annual fluctuations in ... -
Securing land and resource rights in Africa: Pan-African perspectives
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)Across the African continent the land and resource rights of the rural poor are threatened by inappropriate policies and institutions (including global treaties); unequal social, political and economic relations; the actions ... -
Securing land and resource rights in Africa: Pan-African perspectives
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)Across the African continent the land and resource rights of the rural poor are threatened by inappropriate policies and institutions (including global treaties); unequal social, political and economic relations; the ... -
The Security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphism
(Sage, 2008)This article proposes the notion of a security imaginary as a heuristic tool for exploring military isomorphism (the phenomenon that weapons and military strategies begin to look the same across the world) at a time ... -
Self-employment in South Africa’s informal sector: Prevalence, prospects and policy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This text describes research undertaken to investigate small-scale self-employment at the margins of the South African economy. Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment South Africa’s informal sector is, by ... -
Shallow waters: social science research in South Africa's marine environment
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This paper provides an overview of social science research in the marine environment of South Africa for the period 1994–2012. A bibliography based on a review of relevant literature and social science projects funded under ... -
Sistemas agro- alimentares em mutação: O impacto dos grandes agro-investidores sobre o direito à alimentação. Estudos de caso em Moçambique
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)Este livro apresenta estudos de caso sobre os sistemas agro-alimentares em mutação na África Austral, no contexto dos grandes investimentos em terra e dos grandes investimentos no campo dos agro-negócios. Ao registar os ... -
Sistemas agroalimentares em mutação O impacto dos grandes agroinvestidores sobre o direito à alimentação: Estudos de caso em Moçambique
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)Este livro apresenta casos de estudo que oferecem algumas perspectivas do rápido processo de mudança em curso nos sistemas agro-alimentares africanos, e na África Austral em particular, no contexto dos investimentos ... -
A slipping hold? Farm dweller precarity in South Africa’s changing agrarian economy and climate
(MDPI, 2018)The paper investigates whether farm dwellers in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of South Africa are subject to a “double exposure”: vulnerable both to the impacts of post-apartheid agrarian dynamics and to the risks of ... -
Small medium micro enterprise business goals and government support: a South African case study
(APM, 2013)Small and medium-scale enterprises (SMMEs) form the majority of the enterprises in the South African economy. The South African government has identified the SMME sector as one of the potential enablers to achieve its ... -
Small parties and independents – from also-rans to kingmakers
(SUN Press, 2012)Small parties and independents play an important role in South Africa’s democracy. It is on the level of the local that these small parties and independents have some chance to make indents in terms of winning a few wards ... -
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) policy: A handbook for fishing communities
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Small-scale fisheries (SSF) policy: A handbook for fishing communities
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)The Marine Living Resources Act, 18 of 1998 (MLRA), excluded smallscale and artisanal fishers who catch and sell fish to sustain livelihoods. Furthermore, it also excluded those involved in post harvesting and other activities ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ...
