Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Author "du Toit, Andries"
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Participatory commodity networking: An integrated framework for Fairtrade research and support
Keahey, Jennifer; Raynolds, Laura T.; Kruger, Sandra; du Toit, Andries (SAGE Publications, 2018)This article discusses the potential for humanizing production and trade relations by extending action research to multilateral commodity networks. Participatory action research and Fairtrade certification both promote ... -
Position papers for the national Land tenure summit
Hall, Ruth; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)The attached position papers were written by researchers based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, and at the Centre for Law and Society, University of Cape Town. ... -
Post-agrarian biopolitics
du Toit, Andries (Wiley, 2017)How does one make sense of the incorporation of millions of South Africa’spoor and landless black people into a political and economic order thatcannot deliver on its promises — and what are the implications?The path of ... -
Poverty measurement blues: Some reflections on the space for understanding ‘chronic’ and ‘structural’ poverty in South Africa
du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)This paper explores the challenge of understanding chronic and structural poverty in South Africa, and questions the dominance of the econometric imaginary in present-day development and poverty studies. It argues that ... -
Real acts, imagined landscapes
du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)Why do we want land and agrarian reform? Why should its policies be supported? Much can be said about its stated purposes and goals, but why do those goals matter — and to whom? If, as James Ferguson remarked earlier in ... -
Real acts, imagined landscapes: reflections on the discourses of land reform in South Africa after 1994
du Toit, Andries (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)This paper discusses the discourses by which land reform policies in South Africa have been justified and criticized. Critical thought is needed about the underlying assumptions and frameworks informing policy and critique. ... -
Research Report to Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development in South Africa (PSPPD)
Neves, David; Aliber, Michael; Mogaladi, Jan; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This report documents research conducted on small-scale informal self-employment at the margins of the South African economy. Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment South Africa has, by developing country ... -
Rural livelihoods in South Africa: complexity, vulnerability and differentiation
Neves, David; du Toit, Andries (Blackwell Publishing, 2013)The livelihoods of South Africa’s rural African poor have long been characterized by diverse activities, and intertwined with urban opportunities. This paper examines the interlinked nature of land, employment and rural ... -
Self-employment in South Africa’s informal sector: Prevalence, prospects and policy
Neves, David; Aliber, Michael; Mogaladi, Jan; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This text describes research undertaken to investigate small-scale self-employment at the margins of the South African economy. Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment South Africa’s informal sector is, by ... -
Trade and investment in fish and fish products between South Africa and the rest of SADC: Implications for food and nutrition security
Hara, Mafaniso; Greenberg, Stephen; Thow, Anne Marie; Chimarito, Sloans; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017-10)This paper looks at the dynamics of intra-regional trade and investment in fish and fish products between South Africa and the rest of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region, and the implications of this ... -
Trading on a grant: Integrating formal and informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks
du Toit, Andries; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-01)This paper describes the findings of in-depth qualitative case studies based research on how poor and marginalised people in post-apartheid migrant networks seek to ameliorate poverty and manage their vulnerability. It ... -
The trouble with poverty: reflections on South Africa's post-apartheid anti-poverty consensus
du Toit, Andries (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2012)This paper considers the state of poverty discourse in South Africa since 1994: the ideological frameworks, narratives and assumptions that have shaped the construction of poverty as an object of academic knowledge, ... -
The trouble with poverty: Reflections on South Africa’s post-apartheid anti-poverty consensus
du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012-09)This paper considers the state of poverty discourse in South Africa since 1994: the ideological frameworks, narratives and assumptions that have shaped the construction of poverty as an object of academic knowledge, ... -
The use and effectiveness of social grants in South Africa
du Toit, Andries; Hlatshwayo, Sandile; van Niekerk, Ingrid; Samson, Michael; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009)This research examines the effectiveness of social grants in South Africa, and how recipients use their grants. As a form of social protection, social grants not only ameliorate poverty and provide a safety net, they ... -
The vampire squid: Value, crisis and the power of finance
du Toit, Andries (Wiley, 2019)Over the last five decades the power and global reach of financial institutions and finance capital to organize economic, social and political life has grown seemingly unchecked. This is manifested in the ability of ... -
Vulnerability and social protection at the margins of the formal economy
Neves, David; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)This report sets out the results of an in-depth study of livelihood strategies and ‘coping mechanisms’ among poor people in one very specific, but highly significant context of poverty in South Africa. Its core concrete ... -
Without the blanket of the land: Agrarian change and biopolitics in post-apartheid South Africa
du Toit, Andries (2015)What are the responses – from above and below – to processes of jobless de-agrarianization? What are the dynamics and the consequences of the inclusion of poor, vulnerable and unruly populations within processes of ... -
Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa
du Toit, Andries (Taylor & Francis, 2018)This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South Africa’s ... -
Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa
du Toit, Andries (Routledge, 2018)This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South ...