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Backing small-scale fishers: Opportunities and challenges in transforming the fish sector
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Globally, small-scale fisheries play a significant role in food security, poverty reduction and income generation (Béné et al 2007; Heck et al 2007; Béné et al 2010; FAO 2003). At the 2008 Global Conference on Small-Scale ...
Current state of extension and advisory services in South African fisheries
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012)
The fishing industry can be divided into marine, recreational, aquaculture and inland sub-sectors. The marine sub-sector is the main commercial fishing sector comprised of industrial fishing and also small-scale fishing, ...
A Toolkit for Participatory Action Research
(International Development Research Centre (IDRC)-Canada, 2017)
This Guide is drawn from experience in the action research project “Bottom-up accountability initiatives and largescale
land acquisitions in Africa”. The project aimed to bring the international soft law instrument, the ...
Restitution of land rights amendment bill 2013
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
1.1. This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...
'It's all about money! Implementation of South Africaís new fisheries policy
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2001)
This paper was originally written as part of an economics study commissioned by the Chief Directorate: Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT). Since ...
The political economy of land governance in Africa: The role of universities in decolonising curricula and promoting critical scholarship
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2019-10-08)
Decolonising the land requires decolonising our universities. In South Africa there is a live conversation about the need to decolonise our universities—an idea that expands beyond transforming our curricula, to drawing ...
Policy Brief 55: Food in the time of coronavirus: Why we should be very, very afraid
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, 2020-04-01)
The social legitimacy of the ‘COVID-19 lockdown’, government’s regulations imposed to contain the spread of the virus, is most likely to run aground unless an urgent plan can be made to ensure that everyone in the country ...
Constituting the commons in the new South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2000)
This set of papers results from participation by staff members of the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies in the eighth biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, held at ...
Current state of extension and advisory services in South African fisheries
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The fishing industry can be divided into marine, recreational, aquaculture and inland sub-sectors. The
marine sub-sector is the main commercial fishing sector comprised of industrial fishing and also smallscale
fishing, ...
Current state of extension and advisory services in South African fisheries
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The fishing industry can be divided into marine, recreational, aquaculture and inland sub-sectors. The
marine sub-sector is the main commercial fishing sector comprised of industrial fishing and also smallscale
fishing, ...