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The changing nature of large-scale commercial farming & implications for agrarian reform: Evidence from Limpopo, Western Cape and Northern Cape
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012-12)
The privileged position of white commercial farmers in South Africa came to an end by the early 1990s,
when political and policy changes removed the certainty provided by controlled marketing, protective
tariffs and weak ...
Youth futures and a masculine development ethos in the regional story of Uttarakhand
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
Research on the Uttarakhand region, which became a new state in 2000, has focused largely on agrarian livelihoods, religious rituals, development demands, ecological politics and the role of women in regional social ...
Understanding the needs and challenges of a Black community in South Africa
(Routledge, 2017)
This article reports on a study conducted with an unemployed group of
community members residing in the Gugulethu Township in South
Africa. The study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of their
needs and challenges, ...
Understanding land acquisitions in Namibia’s communal land: Impacts and policy implications
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Large-scale land acquisitions by both foreign and local investors
for agriculture, forestry and wildlife purposes, among others,
remain a major challenge for African governments. Between
2000 and 2011, the Namibian ...
Social reproduction, accumulation and class differentiation: Small-scale sugarcane growers in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012-12)
This paper argues that the rise and decline of small-scale sugarcane grower (SSG) production in
KwaZulu-Natal must be historically located within a changing structural relationship with
miller-processors, in turn conditioned ...
Energy consumption, carbon emission and economic growth in Nigeria: Implications for energy policy and climate protection in Nigeria
(2013)
The paper analyses causal effect of oil
production and carbon emission from gas flaring on the
growth rate in Nigeria between 1970 and 2011. The result
revealed that economic growth rate, change in crude oil
production ...
Commercialisation, deagrarianisation and the accumulation/reproduction dynamic: Massive maize production schemes in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012-12)
The post-apartheid era has seen the South African government trying to reverse ‘deagrarianisation’
in the former homelands by introducing ‘modern’ farming techniques and agribusiness
principles. This paper situates the ...
Research findings: Models of commercial agriculture in Kenya
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 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 ...
The New Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition: What are the Implications for Africa’s Youth?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
The ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition’ (hereafter the ‘New Alliance’) is a partnership which was established between selected African countries, G8 members, and the private sector to ‘work together to accelerate ...
The distribution of land in South Africa: An overview
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)