Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Author "PLAAS"
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Land redistribution: Part of a wider agrarian reform strategy
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2012-09)An emerging and increasingly more prominent debate amid the considerations of a new White Paper, following the Green Paper process, which will set the legal framework for land reform and agrarian transformation, is whether ... -
Land reform policies under review
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2004-08)Welcome to the introductory issue of Umhlaba Wethu, an initiative of the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape. Umhlaba Wethu is intended to promote information sharing and ... -
Making investment work for Africa: A parliamentarian response to “land grabs”
PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)A new wave of foreign investment in Africa’s farmland and water was triggered in 2008 by the growing demand in Europe and North America for biofuels, spikes in oil prices, the global food crisis and the world financial ... -
National and provincial government spending on agriculture
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2010-12)By the end of 2010, the new policy direction for land reform has not been clear. The minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Gugile Nkwinti, announced that a Green Paper on Rural Development and Agrarian Transformation, ... -
Overcoming inequality and structural poverty in South Africa
PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)Data indicates that between 1994 and 2008 poverty in South Africa declined marginally, but that inequality continues to increase, and the full impact of the rise in unemployment following the global financial crisis has ... -
PLAAS annual report 2013
PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)This Act is most commonly associated with the consolidation of the colonial ‘land grab’, which had gathered force during the previous 200 years, and with helping to create the framework for the infamous ‘Black Spot ... -
PLAAS Annual Report 2018
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2019-08)PLAAS had a busy 2018. With the land reform debate catapulted into the public sphere, new teaching initiatives, and various research projects and outputs, our team had quite a year. We had a successful and productive year. ... -
PLAAS Annual Report 2019
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2020-12-01)PLAAS had a successful 2019, contributing effectively to the University of the Western Cape’s mission as a research-led, community-oriented and engaged university. -
PLAAS Annual Report 2020
PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021)In our previous Annual Report, I remarked that 2019 seemed to be a year of the gathering storm. Little did we know what was coming. As we looked forward to 2020, we knew that it was going to be a significant year. For one ... -
Polokwane land resolution creates space for struggle
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2008-06)The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is pleased to re-introduce Umhlaba Wethu, a quarterly bulletin on issues of land and agrarian reform in South Africa. Since 2005, public debate has focused increasingly ... -
Proceedings of the second innovation lab: Supporting smallholders into commercial agriculture: a social dialogue and learning project
PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)The Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) and the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS) are engaged in a project called Supporting Smallholders into Commercial Agriculture: ... -
Regulating the institution of traditional leadership
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2008-10)This edition of Umhlaba Wethu focuses on communal tenure and specifically on the Communal Land Rights Act (CLRA), which, if implemented, will see the transfer of private title to communal land to ‘traditional communities’; ... -
Reintroducing the contentious Traditional Courts Bill
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2012-05)When the Traditional Courts Bill [B15-2008] was first introduced in 2008 it was widely criticised for the nature and extent of judicial functions consigned to senior traditional leaders — and for the extent to which the ... -
Resources and rights: Water and land in rural development
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2009-11)Both the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs (DWEA) and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) acknowledge the importance of water reform jointly with land reform. What does integrated planning ... -
Rethinking rural transformation in South Africa
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2011-05)In this edition we describe a civil society workshop convened by the Foundation for Human Rights (FHR) and the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) entitled ‘Re-thinking Rural Transformation in South ... -
Submission to the department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries on draft preservation and development of agricultural land framework bill and policy As published in the government gazette 38545, No 210 of 13 March 2015
PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)PLAAS has read and considered the implications of the Preservation and Development of Agricultural Land Framework Bill and Policy, and submits the following comments and recommendations to the Department of Agriculture, ... -
Submission to the portfolio committee for land and agriculture: The communal land rights bill
PLAAS; NLC (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)The National Land Committee (NLC) and the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) of the University of the Western Cape have been funded by DfID UK (Department for International Development) to undertake a process ... -
Supporting smallholders into commercial agriculture: A social dialogue and learning project
SAFL; PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)The Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) and the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS) are engaged in a project called Supporting Smallholders into Commercial Agriculture: ... -
Tenure security for women farm workers
PLAAS (PLAAS, 2005-06)Welcome to the third issue of Umhlaba Wethu, the quarterly update on land and agrarian reform in South Africa from the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape. In this edition, we bring ... -
Workshop report: A critical response to government’s farm worker proposals: ‘Strengthening the relative rights of people working the land’
PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)On Wednesday 30 April 2014, a group of people (30 to be specific) which consisted of farmworkers/ farm-dwellers, activists, students, and academics met to discuss the ‘final policy proposals’ on Strengthening the relative ...