Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "Zamchiya, Phillan"
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An activist's user guide to regional and international guidelines and principles for large-scale land-based investments
Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2019-12-01)As multinational corporations continue to invest in large-scale, land-based, commercial ventures in Africa, a need to regulate such investments to protect the rural poor, especially women, has been identified. A number of ... -
Another countryside? Policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa
Aliber, Michael; Andrews, Mercia; Baiphethi, Mompati; Cliffe, Lionel; Hall, Ruth; Jacobs, Peter; Jara, Mazibuko; Kleinbooi, Karin; Lahiff, Edward; Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009)Land reform in South Africa is a political project that has foundered. For years, the process has been variously described as being ‘in crisis’, ‘at a crossroads’, ‘at an impasse’ or simply ’stuck’. This still seems as ... -
Changing agro-food systems: The impact of big agro-investors on food rights. Case studies in Mozambique and Zambia
Joala, Refiloe; Zamchiya, Phillan; Ntauazi, Clemente; Musole, Patrick; Katebe, Ceasar (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)This book presents case studies on changing agro-food systems in Southern Africa within the context of large-scale land-based and agri-business investments. By capturing the testimonies of local people in rural settings, ... -
Changing agro-food systems: The impact of big agro-investors on food rights: Case studies in Mozambique and Zambia
Joala, Refiloe; Zamchiya, Phillan; Ntauazi, Clemente; Musole, Patrick; Katebe, Ceasar (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)This book presents case studies that offer some insights into the rapid process of change underway in African agro-food systems, and in Southern Africa in particular, within the context of land-based and agricultural ... -
Changing customary land tenure regimes in Zambia, implications for women’s land rights
Zamchiya, Phillan; Musa, Chilombo (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-03)This paper argues that the formalisation of customary land through a rural certification programme in Nyimba District, Zambia, has triggered the establishment of a new tenure regime that transcends the dualism between ... -
Commercialisation of land and ‘Land Grabbing': Implications for Land Rights and livelihoods in Malawi
Zamchiya, Phillan; Gausi, Joseph (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)This study investigates the processes and impact of commercialisation of land in Malawi – specifically the acquisition of huge tracts of communal lands by foreign companies and local elites for sugarcane production in ... -
Differentiation and development: The case of the Xolobeni community in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Zamchiya, Phillan (PLAAS, 2019-11-15)Most agrarian scholars argue that long historic processes of colonialism, capitalist development and implementation of neo-liberal structural policies in Sub-Saharan Africa have resulted in deagrarianisation and its sub-genre ... -
Farm workers and farm dwellers in Limpopo, South Africa: Struggles over tenure, livelihoods and justice
Wisborg, Poul; Hall, Ruth; Shirinda, Shirhami; Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)Stories about farm workers and dwellers losing their homes, land and livelihoods are common in contemporary South Africa, and also in Limpopo Province. Around 1988, Grace M.1 and her children were evicted from a Limpopo ... -
Foreign investments and livelihoods in northern Zambia
Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018-12)This study employs a wider livelihoods approach to challenge some insular neo-classical economic narratives on the nature, process and impact of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder farmers living on Africa’s ... -
Intra-party cohesion in Zimbabwe’s ruling party after Robert Mugabe
Zamchiya, Phillan (Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2023)Some mainstream political scientists apply the trilogy of exit, voice and loyalty in studying intra-party cohesion. This approach applies more neatly in liberal than in repressive contexts. I therefore make three modifications ... -
Large-scale land deals in Southern Africa voices of the people
Hall, Ruth; Gausi, Joseph; Matondi, Prosper; Nhancale, Camilo; Phiri, Dimuna; Zamchiya, Phillan; Muduva, Theodor (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)This book presents case studies of large-scale land deals in Southern Africa. It aims to provide an accessible and vivid window into the lived realities and responses of rural people who are affected by such deals. For ... -
Large-scale land deals in Southern Africa: Voices of the people
Hall, Ruth; Gausi, Joseph; Matondi, Prosper; Muduva, Theodor; Nhancale, Camilo; Phiri, Dimuna; Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)This book of case studies addresses situations in which commercial projects are planned on land held by rural communities. These include big farming projects by foreign and local companies, farmers becoming out-growers selling ... -
Large-scale land deals in Southern Africa: voices of the people
Hall, Ruth; Gausi, Joseph; Matondi, Prosper; Muduva, Theodor; Nhancale, Camilo; Phiri, Dimuna; Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)This book presents case studies of large-scale land deals in Southern Africa. It aims to provide an accessible and vivid window into the lived realities and responses of rural people who are affected by such deals. For ... -
Mining, capital and dispossession in Limpopo, South Africa
Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)This Working Paper explains the processes by which land, water and other natural resources were seized, and their previous users dispossessed, for the purposes of capital accumulation by Ivanplats platinum mining company ... -
Securing Land Tenure for Women and Men Living on Customary Land in Zimbabwe
Zamchiya, Phillan; Madhuku, Claris (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-02)This policy brief reports on findings from a study investigating the impact of the formalisation of customary land on tenure relations and livelihoods for women and men living in rural Zimbabwe. The research was conducted ... -
Securing Land Tenure for Women Under Mozambique’s Land Administration Programme (Terra Segura)
Musa, Chilombo; Zamchiya, Phillan; Ntauazi, Clemente; Noyes, Joana (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-01)This policy brief reports findings from a study undertaken by researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) investigating the formalisation of ... -
Securing Tenure for Customary Land Rights Holders in Southern Africa
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Sistemas agro- alimentares em mutação: O impacto dos grandes agro-investidores sobre o direito à alimentação. Estudos de caso em Moçambique
Joala, Refiloe; Zamchiya, Phillan; Ntauazi, Clemente; Musole, Patrick; Katebe, Ceasar (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
Joala, Refiloe; Zamchiya, Phillan; Ntauazi, Clemente; Musole, Patrick; Katebe, Ceasar (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 ... -
Women’s Lived Realities Under Customary Tenure in Rural South Africa and Policy Implications
Zamchiya, Phillan; Lebepe, Shula (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-02)