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[En]gendering the norms of customary inheritance in Botswana and South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
The article responds to the article by Weinberg in this issue. She traces the trajectory of court hearings concerning the contested inheritance of land in Botswana, which, after several prior judgements eventually resulted ...
Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this is constituted in different places, one manifestation of the new moment is the rise of distinct forms of authoritarian populism. ...
The rise of BRICS: implications for global agrarian transformation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
This article introduces this collection, which focuses on the economic and political rise of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and its implications for global agrarian transformation. ...
Class dynamics in contract farming: the case of tobacco production in Mozambique
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
This paper examines the class relations emerging in a contract farming scheme in Mozambique. Debates in the literature about contract farming characterise this market arrangement as leading to farmers losing control over ...
Submission to the portfolio committee on rural development and land reform on extension of security of tenure bill of 2015
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
1.1. The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) welcomes the initiative to amend the Extension of Security of Tenure Act, 62 of 1997.
1.2. PLAAS is a constituent unit of the School of Government at the ...
Changing agro-food systems: The impact of big agro-investors on food rights: Case studies in Mozambique and Zambia
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Towards a learner-centred approach: Interactive online peer assessment
(Researchgate, 2016-01)
The tremendous workload produced by multiple assessments that aim for a learnercentered
approach to learning in huge classes and the inability to provide results
timeously, often results in lecturers’ maintaining ...
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 ...