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    Commercial farming and agribusiness in South Africa and their changing roles in Africa’s agro-food system 

    Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
    Our paper is on commercial farming and agribusiness in South Africa and their changing roles in Africa’s agro-food system, as a response to debates and theoretical propositions about internal agrarian change in BRICS ...
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    Regional fish trade in Africa: Potential for food security, reducing poverty and fisheries management 

    Hara, Mafaniso (2015)
    Sub-Saharan Africa: context • One of the regions in the world suffering from high rates of hunger and poverty. • 26% of the world’s hungry people were located in sub-Saharan Africa in 2010 (FAO and WFP,2010) • Chronic ...
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    Experience of ‘hybrid organisations in promoting meaningful rural livelihoods: Lessons from Africa, India and the Americas 

    Scott-Goldman, Judy; Rubambey, Grace; Asiago, Joel; Kingman, Andrew; Goldman, Ian (2010)
    A Ford Foundation Rural Livelihoods Learning Group carried out a study into ‘hybrid’ organisations and strategies between July 2008 and September 2009. Twenty –one case studies were completed of hybrid organisations ...
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    The implications of the mobility of South African capital for rural youth in Africa: The case of Zambian sugar 

    Hakizimana, Cyriaque (2015)
     Developing young people as independent farmers and producers, capable to establish land-based livelihood at their own and on their own terms, seems to be the most desirable option to ensure the rural futures of rural ...
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    The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA and the occupation of the Guinea Savannah 

    Greenberg, Stephen (2015)
    The US, EU and African agricultural modernisation G8 New Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN), USAID and US foreign policy AGRA – Gate Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation – philanthro-capitalism Corporate ...
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    Securing land and resource rights in Africa: Pan-African perspectives 

    Alinon, Koffi; Ayeb, Habib; Claassens, Aninka; Cousins, Ben; Greenberg, Stephen; Ismail, Abdel Mawla; Kameri-Mbote, Patricia; Marongwe, Nelson; Simo, John Mope; Ng’ong’ola, Clement; Odhiambo, Michael; Omoweh, Daniel; Ouédraogo, Hubert; Saruchera, Munyaradzi; Tawfic, Rawia; Wanjala, Smokin (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
    Across the African continent the land and resource rights of the rural poor are threatened by inappropriate policies and institutions (including global treaties); unequal social, political and economic relations; the ...
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    International and regional guidelines on land governance and land-based investments: An agenda for African states 

    Sulle, Emmanuel; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
    Global and regional guidelines have been developed in the period 2009–2014 to improve land governance in the context of large-scale land acquisitions in developing countries. These provide an opportunity for affected ...
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    Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa 

    Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
    Agrarian change in South Africa over the past two decades has seen consolidation of the hegemony of large-scale commercial farming and corporate agribusiness within agro-food systems. Constrained domestic demand and growth ...
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    The biofuels boom and bust in Africa: A timely lesson for the New Alliance initiative 

    Sulle, Emmanuel (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
    Policies promoting biofuels development through financial incentives in Europe and in the United States of America are major drivers of the ‘land rush’ in many African countries. Yet, we know that most of the first projects ...
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    Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush 

    Scoones, Ian; Smalley, Rebecca; Hall, Ruth; Tsikata, Dzodzi (Elsevier, 2019)
    Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ...
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