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Workshop report: A critical response to government’s farm worker proposals: ‘Strengthening the relative rights of people working the land’
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
On Wednesday 30 April 2014, a group of people (30 to be specific) which consisted of farmworkers/ farm-dwellers, activists, students, and academics met to discuss the ‘final policy proposals’ on Strengthening the relative ...
Proceedings of the second innovation lab: Supporting smallholders into commercial agriculture: a social dialogue and learning project
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
The Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) and the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape (PLAAS) are engaged in a project called Supporting Smallholders into Commercial Agriculture: ...
Submission to the department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries on draft preservation and development of agricultural land framework bill and policy As published in the government gazette 38545, No 210 of 13 March 2015
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
PLAAS has read and considered the implications of the Preservation and Development of
Agricultural Land Framework Bill and Policy, and submits the following comments and
recommendations to the Department of Agriculture, ...
Comments on the green paper on land reform 2011
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
This document is a joint submission by researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies in response to the Green Paper on Land Reform released by the Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform on 30 ...
Biennial report 2016-2017
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2018)
Besides research and postgraduate teaching, PLAAS undertakes training, provides advisory, facilitation
and evaluation services and is active in the field of national policy development. Through these activities,
and by ...
Annual report 2014
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Very often, in our work at PLAAS, we encounter two common misunderstandings about what it is that we do and why it is important. One common misunderstanding is that we are some sort of technical agricultural education ...
Annual report 2012
(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. ...
Annual report 2015
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
The year 2015 was a momentous one for PLAAS. It marked twenty years since the day that PLAAS started off as an organisation with some generous start-up funding from the Ford Foundation. PLAAS started life small: initially ...
PLAAS annual report 2013
(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 ...
Making investment work for Africa: A parliamentarian response to “land grabs”
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
A new wave of foreign investment in Africa’s farmland and water was triggered in 2008 by the growing demand in Europe and North America for biofuels, spikes in oil prices, the global food crisis and the world financial ...