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Regional fish trade in Africa: Potential for food security, reducing poverty and fisheries management
(2015)
Sub-Saharan Africa: context
• One of the regions in the world suffering from high rates of hunger and poverty.
• 26% of the world’s hungry people were located in sub-Saharan Africa in 2010 (FAO and WFP,2010)
• Chronic ...
Corporate concentration and food security in South Africa: is the commercial agro-food system delivering?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Although the current agro-food system in South Africa has the technical and organisational capacity to meet domestic food needs, there are major problems with access to food and with the nutrient content of existing food ...
Large-scale land acquisitions in Zambia: Evidence to inform policy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Land in Zambia plays a vital role in sustaining
livelihoods, ensuring food security and reducing
poverty. If people are not able to access
land (including communal interests, such as
lands for grazing or access to water ...
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 ...
Africa's land rush: rural livelihoods and agrarian change
(James Currey, 2015)
This book is 'the most historically grounded, lucid and nuanced understanding to date of the complex political economy of the contemporary rush for land in Africa' according to Professor Adebayo Olukoshi, Director of of ...
Land for housing: A political resource – reflections from Zimbabwe’s urban areas
(Routledge, 2015)
When the Zimbabwean government launched the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP)
in 1999, an international outcry followed, with Zimbabwe described as an international pariah
state. Zimbabwe entered a prolonged ...