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Without the blanket of the land: Agrarian change and biopolitics in post-apartheid South Africa
(2015)
What are the responses – from above and below – to processes of jobless de-agrarianization?
What are the dynamics and the consequences of the inclusion of poor, vulnerable and unruly populations within processes of ...
The contested status of ‘communal land tenure’ in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Twenty years have passed since the Bantustans were reintegrated into South Africa. Yet for the 17 million people still living in these former homelands, the struggle for full recognition of their land rights persists. The ...
Patterns of accumulation in South Africa’s grain-livestock complex: raising questions of agrarian structure
(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 ...
Corporate concentration and food security in South Africa: is the commercial agro-food system delivering?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Although the current agro-food system in South Africa has the technical and organisational capacity to meet domestic food needs, there are major problems with access to food and with the nutrient content of existing food ...
Real acts, imagined landscapes
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
Why do we want land and agrarian reform? Why should its policies be supported? Much can be said about its stated purposes and goals, but why do those goals matter — and to whom? If, as James Ferguson remarked earlier in ...
Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity.
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as
part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting
and protecting dignity’. Setting to ...
Identification of HIV and AIDS-related competencies for nurse graduates in South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
Three decades after the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the global community has not been able to halt the epidemic of HIV infection. Various organisations have devised a number of policies and guidelines ...
Perceived parental control, restructuring ability, and leisure motivation: a cross-cultural comparison
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Leisure is viewed worldwide as an important developmental context for adolescents. As leisure research and programs are shared across nations, it is crucial to examine the cultural equivalence of leisure-related constructs ...
South-Africa (Goodstart III) trial: community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
In light of South Africa’s generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic coupled with high infant mortality, we undertook
a cluster Randomized Control Trial (2008–10) assessing the effect of Community Health Worker
(CHW) antenatal and ...
Substance abuse and maxillofacial injuries
(South African Dental Association, 2014)
Some of the major causes of maxillofacial injuries are assault/
inter-personal violence (IPV), motor vehicle accidents
(MVAs), work-related injuries, sporting accidents and falls.
However, the epidemiological data for ...