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

The biofuels boom and bust in Africa: A timely lesson for the New Alliance initiative

Sulle, Emmanuel (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)

Policies promoting biofuels development through financial incentives in Europe and in the United States of America are major drivers of the ‘land rush’ in many African countries. Yet, we know that most of the first projects ...

Contested land tenure reform in South Africa: The Namaqualand experience

Wisborg, Poul; Rohde, Rick (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)

The legacy of apartheid land policy in South Africa remains one of the most conspicuous manifestations of past injustices. To correct this legacy, diverse land reform efforts have centred on the constitutional mandate for ...

Gender implications of decentralised land reform: The case of Zimbabwe

Manjengwa, Jeanette; Mazhawidza, Phides (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009-12)

A bolder policy approach and more vigorous implementation are needed to support women’s empowerment, transfer of land rights to women, and to ensure their productive utilisation of land. The land reform programme focussed ...

Household livelihoods and increasing foreign investment pressure in Ethiopia’s natural forests

Guillozet, Kathleen; Bliss, John C. (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

Foreign investment in Ethiopia’s forestry sector is currently limited, but agricultural investments that affect forests — largely through forest clearing — are commonplace. We describe the nature of forest investments ...

Management of some commons in southern Africa: Implications for policy

Atkinson, Doreen; Taylor, Michael; Matose, Frank (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)

Profound transformations in communal land tenure systems are taking place in parts of southern Africa that have resulted from decades of interventions, particularly the shrinking of the commonage through capture of extensive ...

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. ...

Reframing the New Alliance agenda: A critical assessment based on insights from Tanzania

Sulle, Emmanuel; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)

A dedicated investment in smallholder farmers to enable them to improve their land use and productivity is critical to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth in African countries. The New Alliance for Food Security and ...

Review of land reforms in Southern Africa

Kleinbooi, Karin (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)

Land, and access to land, is one of the most important assets for the poor in southern Africa, both rural and urban, and probably contributes more than any other factor to their economic survival and the quality of ...

Rights without illusions: The potential and limits of rights-based approaches to securing land tenure in rural South Africa

Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011-05)

Summarising the trajectory of tenure policy and law making from 1994 through to the present, the paper shows how discourses of rights, citizenship and democracy shape policies and legislation. We assess the policies and ...