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The externalisation and casualisation of farm labour in Western Cape horticulture
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003)On several Friday nights during February and March 2001, a visitor to Happiness Street1 in the Oostenberg Municipality s newly created Westbank housing project would have witnessed angry scenes. A small crowd of frustrated ... -
Farm workers and farm dwellers in Limpopo, South Africa: Struggles over tenure, livelihoods and justice
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)Stories about farm workers and dwellers losing their homes, land and livelihoods are common in contemporary South Africa, and also in Limpopo Province. Around 1988, Grace M.1 and her children were evicted from a Limpopo ... -
Farming styles, livelihoods and social differentiation of smallholder farmers: Insights from New Forest Irrigation Scheme in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018-05)This article focuses on the socio-economic differentiation of smallholder farmers in New Forest Irrigation Scheme. Smallholder irrigation schemes are seen as a way of alleviating poverty and contributing to economic growth. ... -
Final Report
(GTAC, 2020-03-31)This study focuses on the potential contribution of redistributive land reform to employment creation. Can land redistribution be undertaken in a manner that also creates jobs, and if so, through which types of land use ... -
Fisheries crime, human rights and small-scalefisheries in South Africa: Acase of biggerfish to fry
(Elsevier, 2019)Marinefisheries plays an important role in ensuring food security and providing livelihoods in South Africa, as inmany other developing coastal States. Transnationalfisheries crime seriously undermines these goals. Drawingon ... -
A focus on vulnerability and inequality in national conferences
(PLAAS, 2011-01)Since the national Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) held its National Summit on Vulnerable Workers in Somerset-West outside Cape Town to discuss better conditions for workers in the agriculture, ... -
Food environments, health and nutrition in South Africa: Mapping the research and policy terrain
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016-06)The aim of this paper was to review existing research and policies related to food environments so as to identify research gaps towards a research agenda for the new Centre of Excellence in Food Security. Food environments ... -
Food trade and investment in South Africa: Improving coherence between economic policy, nutrition and food security
(Food trade and investment in South Africa: Improving coherence between economic policy, nutrition and food security, 2017-12)South Africa must address a rising burden of diet-related chronic disease while also continuing to combat persistent food insecurity and undernutrition (Muzigaba et al. 2016). The prevalence of stunting among children ... -
Foodways of the poor in South Africa: How poor people get food, what they eat, and how this shapes our food system
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)Foodways are the set of strategies shaping what food people choose as well as how and where they access and consume it. Informed by culture and social context, the foodways of the poor simultaneously respond to and ... -
Foodways of the poor in South Africa: How value-chain consolidation, poverty & cultures of consumption feed each other
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)South African food systems are in a dynamic process of transition due to changes in food value chain regimes which have major impacts on the poor. However, these transitions are also shaped by demandside drivers emerging ... -
Foreign investments and livelihoods in northern Zambia
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018-12)This study employs a wider livelihoods approach to challenge some insular neo-classical economic narratives on the nature, process and impact of large-scale land acquisitions on smallholder farmers living on Africa’s ... -
Foreign land ownership under scrutiny
(2004-12)Welcome to the second issue of Umhlaba Wethu, the quarterly update on land and agrarian reform in South Africa from the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, based at the University of the Western Cape. Recent months ... -
Forgotten by the highway: Globalisation, adverse incorporation and chronic poverty in a commercial farming district
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)This paper presents key findings from a livelihoods survey of households in four poor neighbourhoods in the Western Cape district of Ceres, one of the centres of South Africa’s deciduous fruit export industry (see Figure ... -
Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)The most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food in 2007–2008 has heightened the debate on the consequences of land investments, with widespread media coverage, policy commentary ... -
Fragmented participation in management of the fishery for small pelagic fish in South Africa – inclusion of small-rights holders is a complex matter
(NISC (Pty) Ltd (National Inquiry Services Centre), 2014)The reasons why most small-rights holders do not participate in management of the fishery for small pelagic fish (‘small pelagics’) in South Africa, despite legislation and policy encouraging their participation, were ... -
Fresh produce production under irrigation by small-scale farmers in South Africa
(GTAC, 2020-03-31)This report documents the status of fresh produce production under irrigation by small-scale farmers2 in South Africa and investigates the potential for expanding current levels of production, with an emphasis on land ... -
A fresh start for rural development and agrarian reform?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009)The commons (or common-pool resources)1 are the most important resources in southern Africa. The livelihoods of the majority and economies of most countries depend on them. Although common property regimes are often ... -
A fresh start for rural development and agrarian reform?
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009-07-29)The new cabinet ushered in after the 2009 national elections features new and renamed ministries. Those expected to take the lead in a new initiative to resuscitate the rural economy are the Ministry of Rural Development ... -
From ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ to a people-driven land reform
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)The concept of ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ has dominated the discourse on land reform in South Africa since 1994. Now, following the national Land Summit of July 2005, it appears that government is willing to abandon ... -
Future-making and scalar politics in a resource frontier: Energy projects in northern Kenya
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2022-01-28)This contribution explores conflicts in the context of energy-related investments and infrastructure projects in Kenya’s arid and semiarid north. Over the past decade or so this historically marginalised region has turned ...