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Comments on the green paper on land reform 2011
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
This document is a joint submission by researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies in response to the Green Paper on Land Reform released by the Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform on 30 ...
Real acts, imagined landscapes
(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 ...
Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity.
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as
part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting
and protecting dignity’. Setting to ...
Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Over the last 20 years sugar production in southern Africa has been characterised by both the geographic dispersal and the heightened concentration of (formerly) South African sugar capital. This paper argues that key ...
Submission to the Constitutional Review Committee
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2018)
Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa
(2016)
Introduction to regional patterns of sugar production accumulation by way of data analysis for key (formerly ‘South African’) firm Illovo across 6 countries
‘Centrifugal’ logic throws-up a diversity of routes of ...
Examining livelihoods and reconsidering rural development in the former homelands of South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Persistent poverty and under-development in South Africa’s
former homeland communal areas have been little changed by
post-apartheid ‘rural development’ policy. Rural development
policy has often been characterised by ...
Inclusive business models in agriculture? Learning from smallholder cane growers in Mozambique
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Amidst the increasing corporate investment in African farmland the term ‘inclusive business model’ has become a catchphrase touted as an opportunity for incorporating smallholder farmers alongside large-scale commercial ...
The political economy of sugar in Southern Africa – introduction
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
In this introductory paper we review historic and contemporary development of sugar cane production across the southern Africa. We argue that the region’s sugar industry provides a useful lens through which to understand ...
Corporate power in the agro-food system and the consumer food environment in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This contribution maps the South African agro-food system with a focus on corporate ownership and power, inspired by value chain work applied to the food system as a whole. Corporations tend to dominate some nodes, for ...