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    • Annual report 2000 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2001)
      The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) focuses on the land restitution and redistribution programmes initiated by the post-apartheid democratic state; land tenure reform; emerging regimes of natural resource ...
    • Annual report 2001 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
      PLAAS continues to grow and to take on new projects and staff. This presents a number of challenges, not least of which is the sustainability of such growth. The year 2001 saw the completion of a twelve month-long ...
    • Annual report 2002 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      The year 2002 was an extremely busy one for PLAAS staff, and saw the initiation of many new projects and activities, some of them qualitatively different to anything undertaken before. These included an in-depth, national ...
    • Annual report 2003 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)
      Applied social science researchers generally want to see their research influence policy and practice; those of a more activist bent seek to ‘change the world, not simply to interpret it’.1 In its mission statement ...
    • Annual report 2004 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)
      The wider context of our research and training, and the ultimate rationale for establishing and maintaining a centre such as PLAAS, is the key challenge of deeply entrenched poverty, as well as the inequality to which ...
    • Annual report 2006-2007 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2008)
      Over the past two years the contradictions inherent in South Africa’s post-apartheid growth and development path have become increasingly evident. Growth has not managed to reduce very high levels of unemployment to a ...
    • Annual report 2012 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
      In much of the global South the instability in global financial systems continued to have dire effects – and there were many worrying signs that the serious food price inflation the world experienced in 2008 would return. ...
    • PLAAS annual report 2013 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
      This Act is most commonly associated with the consolidation of the colonial ‘land grab’, which had gathered force during the previous 200 years, and with helping to create the framework for the infamous ‘Black Spot ...
    • PLAAS Annual Report 2020 

      PLAAS (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021)
      In our previous Annual Report, I remarked that 2019 seemed to be a year of the gathering storm. Little did we know what was coming. As we looked forward to 2020, we knew that it was going to be a significant year. For one ...