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Support for smallholder farmers in South Africa: Challenges of scale and strategy
(Routledge, 2012)
The South African Government aims to expand the smallholder sector as part of its broader job creation strategy. However, research shows that government attempts to support smallholder farmers have generally been costly ...
Reframing the New Alliance agenda: A critical assessment based on insights from Tanzania
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
A dedicated investment in smallholder farmers to enable them to improve their land use and productivity is critical to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth in African countries. The New Alliance for Food Security and ...
Development of evidence-based policy around small-scale farming
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
How to support small-scale and larger commercial farmers, and to make sure that they are productive and contribute effectively to the rural economy and to national food security.
Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Agrarian change in South Africa over the past two decades has seen consolidation of the hegemony of large-scale commercial farming and corporate agribusiness within agro-food systems. Constrained domestic demand and growth ...
Land redistribution in South Africa: Towards decolonisation or recolonisation?
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Contrary to populist political discourses, in South Africa the ruling party’s approach to land
policy is reproducing paternalistic relations that echo apartheid practices and represent the
’colonial present’. This reality ...
Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush
(Elsevier, 2019)
Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural
resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ...
The political economy of land governance in Africa: The role of universities in decolonising curricula and promoting critical scholarship
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2019-10-08)
Decolonising the land requires decolonising our universities. In South Africa there is a live conversation about the need to decolonise our universities—an idea that expands beyond transforming our curricula, to drawing ...
Extension of Security of Tenure Bill of 2015
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) welcomes the initiative to amend the Extension of Security of Tenure Act, 62 of 1997.
PLAAS is a constituent unit of the School of Government at the University ...
Inclusive business models in agriculture? Learning from smallholder cane growers in Mozambique
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
Amidst the increasing corporate investment in African farmland the term ‘inclusive business model’ has become a catchphrase touted as an opportunity for incorporating smallholder farmers alongside large-scale commercial ...
International and regional guidelines on land governance and land-based investments: An agenda for African states
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)