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Water for agrarian reform and rural poverty eradication: Where is the leak?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)
The distribution of water use is undoubtedly the sharpest inequality inherited from the past in South Africa, with a Gini Coefficient of 0.96 and higher. Unfortunately, as the review in this paper suggests, the gap is even ...
Apartheid space and fractured power: Vicious cycles of poverty in Cornfields, KwaZulu-Natal
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)
Apartheid space and fractured power: vicious cycles of poverty in Cornfields, KwaZulu-Natal
A neglected area in the literature on structural poverty is changing land tenure relations and the disconnect with planning ...
Comments on the green paper on land reform 2011
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
This document is a joint submission by researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies in response to the Green Paper on Land Reform released by the Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform on 30 ...
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 ...
Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity.
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as
part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting
and protecting dignity’. Setting to ...
Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Over the last 20 years sugar production in southern Africa has been characterised by both the geographic dispersal and the heightened concentration of (formerly) South African sugar capital. This paper argues that key ...
Submission to the Constitutional Review Committee
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2018)
Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa
(2016)
Introduction to regional patterns of sugar production accumulation by way of data analysis for key (formerly ‘South African’) firm Illovo across 6 countries
‘Centrifugal’ logic throws-up a diversity of routes of ...
The politics of knowledge: Knowledge management in informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town
(Springer, 2015)
t In situ solutions, participatory practices and the inclusion of community
knowledge have become key ingredients in urban upgrading policies across the world.
Knowledge, however, is not neutral, but value-laden, ...
The terrain of urbanisation process and policy frameworks: A critical analysis of the Kampala experience
(Cogent OA, 2017)
Kampala is urbanising in an unplanned manner, but without a clear picture
of the underlying dynamics. The city is characterised by lack of proper zoning
of economic activities and construction of physical infrastructure ...