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Women's land rights in Africa: Scorecard 2019
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)
This Scorecard is for:
MEASURING how committed governments are to women’s land rights in each country.
COMPARING how women are confronting their governments about land rights.
LEARNING how women are tackling their ...
Fisheries crime, human rights and small-scalefisheries in South Africa: Acase of biggerfish to fry
(Elsevier, 2019)
Marinefisheries plays an important role in ensuring food security and providing livelihoods in South Africa, as inmany other developing coastal States. Transnationalfisheries crime seriously undermines these goals. Drawingon ...
“Reproducing the social”: Contradictory interconnections between land, cattle production and household relations in the Besters Land Reform Project, South Africa
(Routledge, 2019)
Land redistribution policy in South Africa emphasises commercial farming as the legitimate
use of land. This production-oriented framework fails to take into account the intertwined but
unstable relationship between the ...
The impact of educational attainment on household poverty in South Africa: A case study of Limpopo province
(Routledge, 2019)
Poverty is a phenomenon that is multidimensional in nature and its meaning varies from one individual to another (Alkire and Foster 2011; Batana 2013; Bossert, Chakravarty, and D'Ambrosio 2013; Jansen et al. 2015). It can ...
Examining the causal relationship between private sector credit extended and economic growth in Namibia
(PKP, 2019)
The paper examined causality between Private Sector Credit Extension (PSCE) and Economic growth using quarterly data for the period 2000:Q1-2017:Q4, in Namibia. The variables employed were Gross Domestic Product (GDP), ...
Exploring adaptation and agency of mothers caring for disabled children inan urban settlement in South Africa: A qualitative study
(Elsevier, 2019)
Mothers of disabled children who are living in poverty face multiple interlinked disadvantages in relation togender, care, disability, and poverty. Yet, their experiences have been largely neglected in academic literature.This ...
Women’s engagement in and outcomes from small-scale fisheries value chains in Malawi: Effects of social relations
(Spinger, 2019)
Women play an important role within small-scale fishing communities in sub-Saharan Africa through engaging in fish value
chain activities and contributing to household food security and income. There is, however, little ...
Seasonal food insecurity among farm workers in the Northern Cape, South Africa
(MPDI, 2019)
Very little is known about seasonal hunger in South Africa, or about the food security and nutritional status of farm workers. This article identifies a pathway to seasonal hunger—through intra-annual fluctuations in ...
Challenging the odds of vulnerability and resilience in lone migration: Coping strategies of Zimbabwean unaccompanied minors in South Africa
(Routledge, 2019)
Childhood vulnerability attracts more societal and scholarly attention than
child resilience. This article presents experiences of some Zimbabwean
Unaccompanied Minors (ZUMs) in South Africa as an example of
children ...
Is the Blue Justice concept a human rights agenda?
(PLAAS, 2019-11-21)
What is Blue Justice? This concept is situated in social justice for small-scale fisheries (SSFs)—a narrative popular with civil society movements and academics to garner support for the adoption and implementation of the ...