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Information behaviour of Nigerian undergraduates in the World of Web 2.0
(Innovation, 2018)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the information behaviour ofNigerian undergraduates in the world of Web 2.0 at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria. The study is drawn from a doctoral thesis ...
The rise of Soya in Zambia and the integration of smallholder farmers
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)
After six decades of policy experimentation, and efforts to promote economic diversification and reduce the country’s over-reliance on copper mining, Zambia has failed to fully capitalise on the country’s agricultural ...
Livelihoods after land reform: The South African case
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012)
SA’s land reform regarded as a failure
– economic objectives – the spectre of ‘failed projects’
– changing the racial pattern of land ownership – too slow
• No consensus as to why, or what to do
• Even so, ambitious ...
Social differentiation and ‘accumulation from below’ in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal
(2014)
South Africa has a highly unequal distribution of agricultural land > hence land reform
BUT
Who should be the primary beneficiaries of redistributive land reform?
How can land redistribution address the structural ...
Dynamics of social differentiation after land reform among former labour tenants in Besters, KwaZulu-Natal
(2012)
• Locate land reform in SA in changes in 1970s which ended “state activism in capitalism” and started the “moment of ‘globalization”
• Global restructuring of capital has been accompanied by the “fragmentation” of classes ...
Land reform futures
(2015)
Overarching story
• Away from pro-poor neo-liberalism towards the convergence of state resources, private capital and traditional authority
• Elite capture of shrinking state resources – dangerous combination in context ...
Decentralised land governance: Case studies and local voices from Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Decentralisation has been on the Southern African development
agenda for a long time. It is a concept which
appears deceptively simple. The principle of subsidiarity
holds that decision making about local development
...
Livelihoods after land reform: Namibia country report (2010)
(Land, Environment and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre, 2010)
Joint ventures in the Flag Boshielo Irrigation Scheme, South Africa: a history of smallholders, states and business
(International Water Management Institute (IWMI)., 2018)
For over a century, debates about the relation between farm size, mode of farming and land productivity have shaped agrarian policies, programs and research across the world. Until the 2000s, the pendulum tended to swing ...
The politics of sub-national constitutions and local government in Ethiopia
(Perspectives on Federalism, 2014)
The federal Constitution of Ethiopia provides the regional states - the constituent unit of the federation –with the power to draft, adopt and amend their own constitutions, thereby allowing each of the regional states to ...