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The faculty has a strong focus in applied research and has a number of specialised research units including the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), the Entrepreneurship Development Unit (EDU), the Institute for Social Development (ISD), the African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy (ACCEDE) and the EMS Student Support and Research Unit (ESSRU).

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Smallholder irrigation schemes, agrarian reform and ‘accumulation from above and from below’ in South Africa

Cousins, Ben (Wiley & Blackwell Publishing, 2013)

A key issue in debates on agrarian reform in South Africa is the potential for small-scale farming, in conjunction with redistributive land reform, to make a significant contribution to employment creation and poverty ...
Pan-African initiatives in global governance

Gottschalk, Keith (2013)

As recently as 2009, a five hundred page textbook on international relations did not even mention the African Union in its index. The same applied to the Wikipedia entry on international organizations until a colleague of ...
Astronaissance: Communicating astronomy & space to the African imagination

Gottschalk, Keith (2013)

Astronaissance neatly conceptualizes the crossover between the African Renaissance, the re-emergence of Astronomy in Africa, and the rise of cognate space sciences and astronautics. Story-telling, painting, engraving, ...
The choice of atomic power for electricity in South Africa

Gottschalk, Keith (2013)

South Africa needs to both increase its electricity generation, and to incrementally transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources. The most cost-effective strategy would be a mix of imported hydropower, solar power, ...
Value chain analysis of Lake Malawi fish: a case study of Oreochromis spp (Chambo)

Phiri, Letson Yoyola; Dzanja, Joseph; Kakota, Tasokwa; Hara, Mafaniso (Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), 2013)

Chambo has potential of improving fishers’ socio-economic status in Malawi. The paper examines Chambo value chain whose findings will improve fish marketing by actors along the chain. Quantitative value chain analysis used, ...

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