Browsing Working Papers by Author "Zamchiya, Phillan"

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    • Changing customary land tenure regimes in Zambia, implications for women’s land rights 

      Zamchiya, Phillan; Musa, Chilombo (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-03)
      This paper argues that the formalisation of customary land through a rural certification programme in Nyimba District, Zambia, has triggered the establishment of a new tenure regime that transcends the dualism between ...

    • Differentiation and development: The case of the Xolobeni community in the Eastern Cape, South Africa 

      Zamchiya, Phillan (PLAAS, 2019-11-15)
      Most agrarian scholars argue that long historic processes of colonialism, capitalist development and implementation of neo-liberal structural policies in Sub-Saharan Africa have resulted in deagrarianisation and its sub-genre ...

    • Foreign investments and livelihoods in northern Zambia 

      Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018-12)
      This study employs a wider livelihoods approach to challenge some insular neo-classical economic narratives on the nature, process and impact of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder farmers living on Africa’s ...

    • Mining, capital and dispossession in Limpopo, South Africa 

      Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)
      This Working Paper explains the processes by which land, water and other natural resources were seized, and their previous users dispossessed, for the purposes of capital accumulation by Ivanplats platinum mining company ...