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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 ...
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 ...
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Malawi
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Agriculture plays a significant role in Malawi’s national
economy, contributing 35% to gross domestic product,
90% to foreign exchange earnings and providing employment
to more than 80% of the labour force. Particularly ...
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Growth in the agricultural sector has long been assumed to
automatically benefit the rural non-farm sector, mainly through
production or consumption ‘linkages’, including expenditure
by farmers and their workers. However ...
Poverty erodes dignity: perspectives of low income female caregivers in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
Dignity is a foundational value in South Africa’s Constitution and is also experienced as a psycho-social phenomenon. Dimensions of dignity were explored with almost two hundred low income female caregivers and the impact ...
The changing nature of large-scale commercial farming & implications for agrarian reform: Evidence from Limpopo, Western Cape and Northern Cape
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012-12)
The privileged position of white commercial farmers in South Africa came to an end by the early 1990s,
when political and policy changes removed the certainty provided by controlled marketing, protective
tariffs and weak ...
Youth futures and a masculine development ethos in the regional story of Uttarakhand
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
Research on the Uttarakhand region, which became a new state in 2000, has focused largely on agrarian livelihoods, religious rituals, development demands, ecological politics and the role of women in regional social ...
Understanding the needs and challenges of a Black community in South Africa
(Routledge, 2017)
This article reports on a study conducted with an unemployed group of
community members residing in the Gugulethu Township in South
Africa. The study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of their
needs and challenges, ...
Understanding land acquisitions in Namibia’s communal land: Impacts and policy implications
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Large-scale land acquisitions by both foreign and local investors
for agriculture, forestry and wildlife purposes, among others,
remain a major challenge for African governments. Between
2000 and 2011, the Namibian ...
Social reproduction, accumulation and class differentiation: Small-scale sugarcane growers in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012-12)
This paper argues that the rise and decline of small-scale sugarcane grower (SSG) production in
KwaZulu-Natal must be historically located within a changing structural relationship with
miller-processors, in turn conditioned ...