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Large-scale commercial agriculture in Africa: Lessons from the past
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
African agriculture is in a phase of rapid commercialisation. Planners and investors in sub-Saharan Africa urgently need to consider how the choice of business model, the local context and the political environment affect ...
Opportunities and challenges in Tanzania’s sugar industry: Lessons for SAGCOT and the New Alliance
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
Sugarcane outgrower schemes are central to several policy and donor strategies for driving agricultural growth and reducing poverty, including the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor project in Tanzania (SAGCOT). But ...
The role of social security in respecting and protecting the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa: Summary of findings and recommendations
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study explored lone mothers’ experiences of social security in South
Africa in terms of whether it protects and respects their dignity. Interviews
were undertaken with almost two hundred low income lone mothers ...
Class formation across borders: migrant workers in international borderlands
(2014)
• Agricultural boom in tobacco: introduced commercially in 1994 (+699% 2000-2009)
• Labour intensive, use of HH labour and migrant wage labour (Seasonal L and sharecroppers, atypical)
• 130.000 small scale producers. 1:3 ...
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)
Social security and the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This working paper forms part of a project entitled ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa:
The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity’. The project originates from
research undertaken for the South African ...
The impact of poverty and inequality on the dignity of lone mothers in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The purpose of this themed working paper is to explore lone mothers’ accounts of what dignity
means in the context of their lives and how the experience of poverty and inequality impacts on
their sense of dignity. This ...
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The attached position papers were written by researchers based at the Institute for
Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, and at
the Centre for Law and Society, University of Cape ...
PLAAS annual report 2013
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
This Act is most commonly associated with the consolidation of the colonial ‘land grab’, which had gathered force during the previous 200 years, and with helping to create the framework for the infamous ‘Black Spot ...