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Contesting the food system in South Africa: issues and opportunities
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This report widens the debate about
food production and distribution in South Africa
to consider some of the entrenched power dynamics that shape the way these happen, and to
consider whether a more radical transformation ...
Governing global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for land
(Wiley, 2013)
Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as a ‘global land grab’, new land acquisitions ...
Value chain analysis of Lake Malawi fish: a case study of Oreochromis spp (Chambo)
(Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), 2013)
Chambo has potential of improving fishers’ socio-economic status in Malawi. The paper examines Chambo value chain whose findings will improve fish marketing by actors along the chain. Quantitative value chain analysis used, ...
Social reproduction, accumulation and class differentiation: small-scale sugarcane growers in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This paper argues that the rise and decline of small-scale sugarcane grower (SSG) production in
KwaZulu-Natal must be historically located within a changing structural relationship with
miller-processors, in turn conditioned ...
The trouble with poverty: reflections on South Africa's post-apartheid anti-poverty consensus
(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, ...
Livestock and the rangeland commons in South Africa’s land and agrarian reform
(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Land and agrarian reform has the potential to expand South Africa’s rangeland commons and enhance their contribution
to the livelihoods of the rural poor, yet to a large extent this has been an opportunity missed. ...
Real acts, imagined landscapes: reflections on the discourses of land reform in South Africa after 1994
(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. ...
Labour regulation and the economy: The case of the food value chain
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
Contrary to a popular narrative which seeks to attribute the country’s economic ills to labour legislation, this paper argues that the role of law in relation to the economy is constitutive, and that labour can also not ...
The changing nature of large-scale commercial farming & implications for agrarian reform: evidence from Limpopo, Western Cape and Northern Cape
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The privileged position of white commercial farmers in South Africa came to an end by the early 1990s,
when political and policy changes removed the certainty provided by controlled marketing, protective
tariffs and ...
Status report on land and agricultural policy in South Africa
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
A strategy that seeks to insert smallholders into
the large-scale, industrial, export-oriented model
can only succeed in broadening and diversifying
the producer base slightly. The large-scale model
also brings ...