Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Subject "Rural"

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    • Changing livelihoods in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing employment and expanding social protection 

      Hajdu, Flora; Neves, David; Granlund, Stefan (Taylor & Francis, 2020)
      This is evident in South Africa’s former ‘homelands’, the site where this study examined changes in rural livelihoods over a 14-year period. Detailed survey data (collected in 2002 and 2016) from two villages in the Pondoland ...

    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Rural settlement 

      Bannister, Sue (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      The primary focus of South Africa is land reform programme is the acquisition of land and tenure security. The policies and strategies attached to this programme have provided many people with land. However, access to land ...

    • Reforming communal land tenure in South Africa – Why land titling is not the answer 

      Cousins, Ben (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
      The long-awaited draft Communal Land Rights Bill sets out government’s proposals to resolve urgent land tenure problems in the former ‘homeland’ areas, where most rural South Africans still live, and where land is ...

    • A scan of rural civil society 

      de Satge, Rick (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
      PLAAS commissioned Phuhlisani to undertake a review of rural civil society, to explore innovative ways in which researchers and organisations in rural civil society can work together in linking research to policy ...