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    • The occupational dimensions of poverty and disability 

      Duncan, Madeleine; Watson, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-03)
      This paper is based on ongoing research into the form, performance and meaning of all the things that particularly vulnerable people do every day i.e. their occupations. Occupations are the building blocks for livelihood. ...
    • Opportunities and challenges in Tanzania’s sugar industry: Lessons for SAGCOT and the New Alliance 

      Sulle, Emmanuel; Smalley, Rebecca; Malale, Lameck (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 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 ...
    • Opportunities and challenges in Tanzania’s sugar industry: Lessons for SAGCOT and the New Alliance 

      Sulle, Emmanuel; Smalley, Rebecca; Malale, Lameck (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 ...
    • Oranges and labourers: The potential for job creation in the citrus sub-sector of South Africa 

      Genis, Amelia (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018-06)
      Rural employment is a key policy issue in South Africa, yet the National Development Plan (NDP) of 2012 suggests that one million jobs can be created in agricultural production, processing and related activities. The plan ...
    • Outcomes of community engagement in community-based natural resource management programmes 

      Madzudzo, Elias; HaBarad, Jonathan; Matose, Frank (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
      Although the last century has witnessed exciting strategies in resource management in the form of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), these developments are more incremental than revolutionary. CBNRM falls ...
    • Overcoming inequality and structural poverty in South Africa 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)
      Data indicates that between 1994 and 2008 poverty in South Africa declined marginally, but that inequality continues to increase, and the full impact of the rise in unemployment following the global financial crisis has ...
    • Participatory commodity networking: An integrated framework for Fairtrade research and support 

      Keahey, Jennifer; Raynolds, Laura T.; Kruger, Sandra; du Toit, Andries (SAGE Publications, 2018)
      This article discusses the potential for humanizing production and trade relations by extending action research to multilateral commodity networks. Participatory action research and Fairtrade certification both promote ...
    • Patterns of accumulation in South Africa’s grain-livestock complex: raising questions of agrarian structure 

      Dubb, Alex (2017)
      • What is the grain-livestock ‘complex’ (GLC)?: – ‘Complex’ rests on the key linkage between maize and soya key inputs and central cost ingredients in production of feed for intensive livestock production (pigs, chickens ...
    • ‘People are not happy’ – Speaking up for adaptive natural resource governance in Mahenye 

      Rihoy, Elizabeth; Chirozva, Chaka; Anstey, Simon (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)
      This paper explores the ongoing events surrounding the CAMPFIRE project of Mahenye in Zimbabwe within the context of the recent discourse of crisis within community based natural resource management (CBNRM) and crisis ...
    • People-centred environmental management and municipal commonage in the Nama Karoo 

      Atkinson, Doreen (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)
      Land reform is a key part of government policy, spurred politically by the claims of the landless, as well as the land reform pressures in countries like Zimbabwe. It is clear to national and provincial governments that ...
    • Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa 

      Petersen, Leif; Reid, Andrew M.; Moll, Eugene J.; Hockings, Marc T. (Academy of Science of South Africa and AOSIS, 2017)
      Cape Town is a fast-growing cityscape in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa with 24 formally protected conservation areas including the World Heritage Table Mountain National Park. These sites have been protected ...
    • PLAAS annual report 2013 

      PLAAS (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 ...
    • PLAAS Annual Report 2018 

      PLAAS (PLAAS, 2019-08)
      PLAAS had a busy 2018. With the land reform debate catapulted into the public sphere, new teaching initiatives, and various research projects and outputs, our team had quite a year. We had a successful and productive year. ...
    • PLAAS Annual Report 2019 

      PLAAS (PLAAS, 2020-12-01)
      PLAAS had a successful 2019, contributing effectively to the University of the Western Cape’s mission as a research-led, community-oriented and engaged university.
    • PLAAS Annual Report 2020 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021)
      In our previous Annual Report, I remarked that 2019 seemed to be a year of the gathering storm. Little did we know what was coming. As we looked forward to 2020, we knew that it was going to be a significant year. For one ...
    • PLAAS Submission on 18th Constitutional Amendment Bill 

      Mtero, Farai; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2020-02-28)
      The 18th Amendment Bill of South Africa’s constitution seeks to make changes to Section 25 of the Bill of Rights (the property clause) in order to make explicit the circumstances that would warrant the payment of nil ...
    • PLAAS Workshop Report: National Land Workshop for Civil Society: Johannesburg, 2–4 October 2013 

      Molose, Virginia (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
      A number of recent government policies and bills seem to suggest that land may increasingly be transferred into the hands of traditional leaders and other elite strategic partners, rather than to communities, who will ...
    • Plantation, outgrower and medium- scale commercial farming in Ghana: Which model provides better prospects for local development 

      Yaro, Joseph Awetori; Teye, Joseph Kofi; Torvikey, Gertrude Dzifa (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
      There has been a sustained push for agricultural commercialisation in developing countries. In Africa, this has been pursued in different ways over time. During the colonial era, most governments believed that plantations ...
    • Plantation, outgrower and medium-scale commercial farming in Ghana: which model provides better prospects for local development? 

      Dzifa Torvikey, Gertrude; Awetori Yaro, Joseph; Kofi Teye, Joseph (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape and Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016)
      African governments are making important policy choices in their quest to modernise agriculture, with some promoting largescale farming on plantations while others promote small- or medium-scale commercial farming.
    • Plantation, outgrower and mediumscale commercial farming in Ghana: Which model provides better prospects for local development? 

      Yaro, Joseph Awetori; Teye, Joseph Kofi; Torvikey, Gertrude Dzifa (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
      There has been a sustained push for agricultural commercialisation in developing countries. In Africa, this has been pursued in different ways over time. During the colonial era, most governments believed that plantations ...