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Annual report 2003
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)
Applied social science researchers generally want to see their
research influence policy and practice; those of a more activist
bent seek to ‘change the world, not simply to interpret it’.1
In its
mission statement ...
Polokwane land resolution creates space for struggle
(PLAAS, 2008-06)
The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is pleased to re-introduce Umhlaba Wethu, a quarterly bulletin on issues of land and agrarian reform in South Africa. Since 2005, public debate has focused increasingly ...
Annual report 2001
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
PLAAS continues to grow and to take on new projects and staff. This presents a number of
challenges, not least of which is the sustainability of such growth. The year 2001 saw the
completion of a twelve month-long ...
Annual report 2006-2007
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2008)
Over the past two years the contradictions
inherent in South Africa’s post-apartheid growth
and development path have become increasingly
evident. Growth has not managed to reduce very
high levels of unemployment to a ...
Annual report 2002
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
The year 2002 was an extremely busy one for PLAAS staff, and saw the initiation of many new
projects and activities, some of them qualitatively different to anything undertaken before. These
included an in-depth, national ...
Resources and rights: Water and land in rural development
(PLAAS, 2009-11)
Both the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs (DWEA) and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) acknowledge the importance of water reform jointly with land reform. What does integrated planning ...
Insecure tenure and labour – farm dwellers and workers
(PLAAS, 2009-09)
This edition of Umhlaba Wethu centres attention on the many challenges farm dwellers and workers experience and continue to face. These challenges reflect in their long pursuit of secured tenure rights and a living wage ...