Research Reportshttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/222024-03-29T14:17:57Z2024-03-29T14:17:57ZClimate change and agrarian justiceMonjane, BoaventuraNyambura, RuthScoones, Ianhttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/93282024-03-20T00:00:39Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZClimate change and agrarian justice
Monjane, Boaventura; Nyambura, Ruth; Scoones, Ian
Three papers formed the focus of this session. Zehra Yaţın et al presented on the environmentalisation of the agrarian question and the agrarianisation of the climate justice movement. Noemi Gonda et al presented on rethinking resilience through socio-environmental conflicts in Nicaragua. Mills-Novoa et al presented on resisting and remaking climate change adaptation in adaptation projects in Ecuador.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZCovid-19 Impacts: Household Food Production, Agroecology, Rural Livelihoods and Alternative Food SystemsMtero, FaraiGumede, Nkanyisohttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/87212023-04-04T00:01:54Z2023-02-01T00:00:00ZCovid-19 Impacts: Household Food Production, Agroecology, Rural Livelihoods and Alternative Food Systems
Mtero, Farai; Gumede, Nkanyiso
2023-02-01T00:00:00ZClimate change and rural livelihoods in Southern Africa: An agenda for policy-oriented researchBennie, Andrewhttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/80742022-10-26T00:00:45Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZClimate change and rural livelihoods in Southern Africa: An agenda for policy-oriented research
Bennie, Andrew
This report is the outcome of an extensive review of the
literature and the debates on climate change and landbased
livelihoods in Southern Africa.
In the context of the converging climate and food crises,
it provides an overview of the politics of climate change,
its impacts, and responses in Southern Africa, and sketches
the outlines of PLAAS’s research agenda on the intersections
of climate change, agrarian change and rural
livelihoods. As such, it is an open-ended document, intended
to identify and formulate questions, not to present
answers. The purpose of the report is to set out in
broad terms the way in which seek to connect our work
on agrarian change and rural livelihoods to the questions
raised by the climate crisis currently facing our societies.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZEquitable access to land for social justice in South AfricaMtero, Farai; Gumede, Nkanyiso; Ramantisima, Katlegohttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/71712022-08-04T00:00:45Z2021-11-01T00:00:00ZEquitable access to land for social justice in South Africa
Mtero, Farai; Gumede, Nkanyiso; Ramantisima, Katlego
This report analyses the trajectory of land reform in South Africa and its implications for equitable access to land. The report combines insights from empirical research and inclusive dialogues to analyse the extent to which land reform laws and policies adequately promote equitable access to land as provided for in Section 25 of the Constitution. These insights are based on in-depth interviews with land reform beneficiaries and different key informants in the land sector.
A series of workshops conducted during the course of the research allowed different societal groups to
articulate diverse and often contested ideas of what constitutes a successful and equitable land reform in South Africa. The dialogues were important in interrogating deeply entrenched and enduring assumptions about land reform, development and the overall trajectory of transformation in South Africa. Some of the enduring assumptions include the narrow focus on replicating the large-scale commercial farming model in land redistribution while neglecting the role of land in sustaining multiple and diverse livelihoods for the landless poor. ‘Productionism’ is also evident in the narrow focus on agriculture and neglect of the complex and differentiated land needs associated with the incessant process of urbanisation. Both the tendency to replicate the large-scale commercial farming model
in land redistribution and the narrow focus on farming while neglecting multiple and diverse land needs of the landless poor undermine equitable access to land.
The report argues that equitable land reform should account for the diverse land needs associated with a rapidly changing agrarian landscape where rapid urbanisation occurs amidst the decline of farming livelihoods, widespread unemployment, and complex urban-rural migration patterns. Accordingly, a broad framing of success is imperative, beyond the productionism that seeks to replicate the large-scale commercial farming model while neglecting the complex realities of a changing agrarian landscape.
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