Browsing Working Papers by Subject "Zambia"

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    • Changing customary land tenure regimes in Zambia, implications for women’s land rights 

      Zamchiya, Phillan; Musa, Chilombo (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-03)
      This paper argues that the formalisation of customary land through a rural certification programme in Nyimba District, Zambia, has triggered the establishment of a new tenure regime that transcends the dualism between ...

    • Foreign investments and livelihoods in northern Zambia 

      Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018-12)
      This study employs a wider livelihoods approach to challenge some insular neo-classical economic narratives on the nature, process and impact of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder farmers living on Africa’s ...

    • Lusaka’s local food geographies: A gendered reading of everyday food insecurity in Mtendere, Lusaka 

      Davies, Frances (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016-08)
      Little is known about how individual abilities and food security determinants - at the scale of everyday life - connect to formal and informal value chains, and broader urban structural systems in which daily processes ...