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Submission to the Constitutional Review Committee
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2018)
Social reproduction of ‘classes of labour’ in the rural areas of South Africa: contradictions and contestations
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Marxist agrarian political economy has focused largely on the problematic of accumulation and its politics, but the dynamics of social reproduction in rural contexts remain somewhat undertheorised. These are explored through ...
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 ...
Final Report
(GTAC, 2020-03-31)
This study focuses on the potential contribution of redistributive land reform to employment creation. Can land redistribution be undertaken in a manner that also creates jobs, and if so, through which types of land use ...
Municipal Case Study: Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality KwaZulu – Natal
(2020-03-31)
This report presents a case study of Inkosi Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. The goal of the report is to examine the employment creation potential of land redistribution in Inkosi Langalibalele, and its cost.
The ...
Submission to the Constitutional Review Committee
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is a constituent unit of the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape which was established in 1995. PLAAS engages in research, training, policy ...
Comments on the Green Paper on land reform 2011
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
As we have indicated in our earlier press release, the document released as a Green Paper by the
Department Ministry of Rural Development and Land Reform is a great disappointment.
The Green Paper is the product of a ...
Rights without illusions: The potential and limits of rights-based approaches to securing land tenure in rural South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011-05)
Summarising the trajectory of tenure policy and law making from 1994 through to the present, the paper shows how discourses of rights, citizenship and democracy shape policies and legislation. We assess the policies and ...
Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government’s second economy strategy: Volume 1: Situation analysis, fieldwork findings and main conclusions
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Within the ambit of the Accelerated and Shared
Growth Initiative of South Africa, government is
leading a process to define a Second Economy
Strategy. One of the opportunities that has been
identified is the agricultural ...
Challenging the stereotypes: Small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This report represents one of the outputs of
a research and social dialogue project undertaken
over 18 months. It was carried out by
researchers from the Institute for Poverty,
Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), based ...