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Changing customary land tenure regimes in Zambia, implications for women’s land rights
(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 ...
Building leaders for the UN Ocean Science Decade: A guide to supporting early career women researchers within academic marine research institutions
(Oxford University Press, 2023)
Diverse and inclusive marine science is now recognized as
essential for addressing the complex and accelerating challenges facing marine social-ecological systems (Blythe and
Cvitanovic, 2020; Lawless et al., 2021). The ...
Covid-19 Impacts: Household Food Production, Agroecology, Rural Livelihoods and Alternative Food Systems
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-02)
Comparison of multifactor asset pricing models in the South African stock market [2000–2016]
(MDPI, 2023)
The quest for parsimonious models has been a key objective in asset pricing. However, there appears to be no consensus on the most successful asset pricing strategy in the literature, especially for the South African Market. ...
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique
(Wiley, 2022)
After nearly two and a half decades with a Land Law widely
considered progressive, Mozambique is preparing to revise
its legal framework for land. Land activists accuse the government
of pursuing an authoritarian approach, ...
Smallholder views on Chinese agricultural investments in Mozambique and Tanzania in the context of VGGTS
(MDPI, 2023)
Based on a case study in each country, this study documents the views of Mozambican and
Tanzanian smallholders regarding Chinese agricultural investments and the extent to which investors
abide by their legitimate land ...
Life on the land: New lives for agrarian questions
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
The politics of food, climate, energy, and the yet unfinished work ofending colonialism run square through questions of land. Theclassical agrarian question has taken on new forms, and a newintensity. We look at four ...
Intra-party cohesion in Zimbabwe’s ruling party after Robert Mugabe
(Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2023)
Some mainstream political scientists apply the trilogy of exit, voice and loyalty in studying intra-party cohesion. This approach applies more neatly in liberal than in repressive contexts. I therefore make three modifications ...
Resource rents, savings behavior, and scenarios of economic development
(Elsevier, 2023)
The paper revisits the nexus between natural resources and economic growth from the lens of development economics. It augments the traditional dual-sector economy model by the assumption that in addition to capitalists, ...
The role of culture in the adoption of mobile applications for the self‑management of diabetes in low resourced urban communities
(Springer, 2022)
Diabetes mellitus has been documented as a global health problem with a high mortality rate. In the current digital age, the
use of technology to overcome such health problems in pursuance of Sustainable Development Goal ...