Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Subject "Land grabs"

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    • Africa's land rush: rural livelihoods and agrarian change 

      Hall, Ruth; Scoones, Ian; Tsikata, Dzodzi (James Currey, 2015)
      This book is 'the most historically grounded, lucid and nuanced understanding to date of the complex political economy of the contemporary rush for land in Africa' according to Professor Adebayo Olukoshi, Director of of ...

    • Elite land grabbing in Namibian communal areas and its impact on subsistence farmers’ livelihoods 

      Odendaal, Willem (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
      This brief examines some emerging trends and dynamics in changing power relations in rural Namibian communities due to emerging new elites and the threats to subsistence farmers’ access to communal land and ...

    • Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush 

      Scoones, Ian; Hall, Ruth; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; White, Ben; Wolford, Wendy (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
      The most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food in 2007–2008 has heightened the debate on the consequences of land investments, with widespread media coverage, policy commentary ...

    • Large-scale land deals in Southern Africa: voices of the people 

      Hall, Ruth; Gausi, Joseph; Matondi, Prosper; Muduva, Theodor; Nhancale, Camilo; Phiri, Dimuna; Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
      This book presents case studies of large-scale land deals in Southern Africa. It aims to provide an accessible and vivid window into the lived realities and responses of rural people who are affected by such deals. For ...

    • 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 ...