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A decade of fisheries co-management in Africa: Going back to the roots? Empowering fishing communities? Or just an illusion?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
This paper provides an overview of co-management in Africa and the historical, political and paradigmatic reasons for the shift. The historical context is important when analysing the performance of the regime. The main ...
Annual report 2001
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
PLAAS continues to grow and to take on new projects and staff. This presents a number of
challenges, not least of which is the sustainability of such growth. The year 2001 saw the
completion of a twelve month-long ...
Valuing the commons: Rural livelihoods and communal rangeland resources in the Maluti District, Eastern Cape
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
The ‘hidden’ value of wild resources, trees and grazing resources on
communal rangelands is often overlooked by conventional economic
assessments, even though their contribution to people’s lives is enormous.
There is ...
Land and agrarian reform in South Africa: A status report, 2002
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
In 1994, South Africa started a new life as a democratic nation. It
faced immense challenges. Multiple economic, social and political
transformations were needed to overcome the legacy of colonialism and
apartheid. The ...
Leaping the fissures: Bridging the gap between paper and real practice in setting up common property institutions in land reform in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
New common property institutions (CPIs) were created in South Africa soon after 1994 to enable self-constituted groups of people a choice about how they wished to acquire, hold and manage land. They were to provide rural ...
Community-based natural resources management: Experiences and lessons linking communities to sustainable resource use in different social, economic and ecological conditions in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
The project, which started in 1996
in partnership with the South
African Department of Land
Affairs (DLA), supports
communities that have a stake in nature
conservation areas through ownership, or a
claim to ownership, ...
The interaction between the land redistribution programme and the land market in South Africa: A perspective on the willing-buyer/willing-seller approach
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
The debate rages on, in South Africa and elsewhere, about the desirability and efficacy of the willing-buyer/willing-seller approach to land redistribution. In South Africa, the willing-buyer/willing-seller approach is ...
Decentralisation and natural resource management in rural South Africa: problems and prospects
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
In this paper, the issue of decentralisation and natural resource management will be interrogated primarily through a focus on local government reform and land administration. This focus illuminates problems that are on ...
The tragic African commons: A century of expropriation, suppression and subversion
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
This paper examines the nature of the African commons as a property system; analyses the extent of damage which was inflicted upon it during one hundred years of exploitation, suppression and subversion; explains why, in ...
Reforming communal land tenure in South Africa – Why land titling is not the answer
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
The long-awaited draft Communal Land Rights Bill sets out government’s proposals to
resolve urgent land tenure problems in the former ‘homeland’ areas, where most rural
South Africans still live, and where land is ...