Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Author "Hall, Ruth"

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    • The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico 

      Scoones, Ian; Hall, Ruth; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; White, Ben; Wolford, Wendy (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
      We welcome Rulli and D’Odorico’s response to our introduction to the Journal for Peasant Studies (JPS) Forum on Global Land Grabbing(Scoones etal.2013) in which we discussed the ‘literature rush’ that has accompanied the ...

    • Position papers for the national Land tenure summit 

      Hall, Ruth; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
      The attached position papers were written by researchers based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, and at the Centre for Law and Society, University of Cape Town. ...

    • Pressures on land in sub-Saharan Africa: Social differentiation and societal response 

      Hall, Ruth; Paradza, Gaynor (Overseas Development Institute, 2012)
      This paper focuses on large-scale land acquisitions and the implications of these new trends for land tenure rights in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights trends in legal and policy approaches; describes and analyses new ...

    • Reframing the New Alliance agenda: A critical assessment based on insights from Tanzania 

      Sulle, Emmanuel; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
      A dedicated investment in smallholder farmers to enable them to improve their land use and productivity is critical to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth in African countries. The New Alliance for Food Security and ...

    • Reframing the New Alliance agenda: A critical assessment based on insights from Tanzania 

      Sulle, Emmanuel; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
      A dedicated investment in smallholder farmers to enable them to improve their land use and productivity is critical to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth in African countries. The New Alliance for Food Security and ...

    • Restitution of land rights amendment bill 2013 

      Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba; Paradza, Gaynor (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
      1.1. This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...

    • Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill 2013 

      Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba; Paradza, Gaynor (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
      This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...

    • Revisiting unresolved questions: land, food and agriculture 

      Hall, Ruth (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2011)
      This article explores three articles from the perspective of 2011. They are Makhosazane Gcabashe and Alan Mabin’s ‘Preparing to negotiate the land question’ (Transformation 11), Tom Bennett’s ‘Human rights and the African ...

    • Rights without illusions: The potential and limits of rights-based approaches to securing land tenure in rural South Africa 

      Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011-05)
      Summarising the trajectory of tenure policy and law making from 1994 through to the present, the paper shows how discourses of rights, citizenship and democracy shape policies and legislation. We assess the policies and ...

    • The rise of BRICS: implications for global agrarian transformation 

      McKay, Ben M.; Hall, Ruth; Liu, Juan (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      This article introduces this collection, which focuses on the economic and political rise of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and its implications for global agrarian transformation. ...

    • Rural resource grabs or necessary inward investment? The politics of land and water in Africa 

      Hall, Ruth (International Institute for Environment and Development, 2015)
      What has happened since the furore broke over the corporate land rush in Africa? Field-based research has exposed new realities that challenge the linear suggestions of a ‘grab’. As the process unfolds and our understanding ...

    • State, market and community: The potential and limits of participatory land reform planning in South Africa 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2008-10)
      Market-assisted land reform, as promoted by the World Bank, has made little progress in South Africa: since the advent of democracy in 1994, just 4 per cent of white-owned agricultural land has been redistributed to black ...

    • Submission to the Constitutional Review Committee 

      Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2018)

    • Submission to the Constitutional Review Committee 

      Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)
      The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is a constituent unit of the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape which was established in 1995. PLAAS engages in research, training, policy ...

    • Submission to the portfolio committee on public works on expropriation bill of 2015 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
      The Bill brings legislation in line with the requirements of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 108 of 1996. To date, despite the efforts of progressive movements to ensure that expropriation would be ...

    • Submission to the portfolio committee on rural development and land reform on extension of security of tenure bill of 2015 

      Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
      1.1. The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) welcomes the initiative to amend the Extension of Security of Tenure Act, 62 of 1997. 1.2. PLAAS is a constituent unit of the School of Government at the ...

    • Support for smallholder farmers in South Africa: Challenges of scale and strategy 

      Aliber, Michael; Hall, Ruth (Routledge, 2012)
      The South African Government aims to expand the smallholder sector as part of its broader job creation strategy. However, research shows that government attempts to support smallholder farmers have generally been costly ...

    • A Toolkit for Participatory Action Research 

      Hall, Ruth; Brent, Zoe; Franco, Jenny; Isaacs, Moenieba; Shegro, Tsegaye (International Development Research Centre (IDRC)-Canada, 2017)
      This Guide is drawn from experience in the action research project “Bottom-up accountability initiatives and largescale land acquisitions in Africa”. The project aimed to bring the international soft law instrument, the ...

    • Towards a national minimum wage: what do we know about wages and employment in agriculture? 

      Hall, Ruth (2014)
      • Agriculture is a good sector to learn from when considering a national minimum wage because: – It is historically a low-wage sector – It has been shedding jobs – It is enormously diverse – A minimum wage was introduced ...

    • What are the real implications of reopening land claims? 

      Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act of 2014 has reopened the land claims process for another five years, extending the deadline to 2019. An impact assessment commissioned by the Department of Rural Development ...