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Patterns of accumulation in South Africa’s grain-livestock complex: raising questions of agrarian structure
(2017)
• What is the grain-livestock ‘complex’ (GLC)?:
– ‘Complex’ rests on the key linkage between maize and soya key inputs and central cost ingredients in production of feed for intensive livestock production (pigs, chickens ...
Corporate concentration and food security in South Africa: is the commercial agro-food system delivering?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Although the current agro-food system in South Africa has the technical and organisational capacity to meet domestic food needs, there are major problems with access to food and with the nutrient content of existing food ...
Real acts, imagined landscapes
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
Why do we want land and agrarian reform? Why should its policies be supported? Much can be said about its stated purposes and goals, but why do those goals matter — and to whom? If, as James Ferguson remarked earlier in ...
Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity.
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as
part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting
and protecting dignity’. Setting to ...
Examining livelihoods and reconsidering rural development in the former homelands of South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Persistent poverty and under-development in South Africa’s
former homeland communal areas have been little changed by
post-apartheid ‘rural development’ policy. Rural development
policy has often been characterised by ...
Macroeconomic immigration determinants: An analysis of ‘pull’ factors of international migration to South Africa
(SIHMA, 2015)
This research empirically examines the macroeconomic determinants of ‘pull’ factors of international migration in South Africa. Using the neoclassical economic model of international migration, an Ordinary Least Square ...
Corporate power in the agro-food system and the consumer food environment in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This contribution maps the South African agro-food system with a focus on corporate ownership and power, inspired by value chain work applied to the food system as a whole. Corporations tend to dominate some nodes, for ...
An exploration of the concept of community and its impact on participatory governance policy and service delivery in poor areas of Cape Town, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
The inclusion of citizen participation as a means to the equitable delivery of public services has distinguished South Africa’s democratic development trajectory over the last 20 years. While equitable resource allocation ...
Social reproduction of ‘classes of labour’ in the rural areas of South Africa: contradictions and contestations
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Marxist agrarian political economy has focused largely on the problematic of accumulation and its politics, but the dynamics of social reproduction in rural contexts remain somewhat undertheorised. These are explored through ...
Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South Africa’s ...