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Securing Land Tenure for Women and Men Living on Customary Land in Zimbabwe
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-02)
This policy brief reports on findings from a study investigating the impact of the formalisation of customary land on tenure relations and livelihoods for women and men living in rural Zimbabwe. The research was conducted ...
Securing Land Tenure for Women Under Mozambique’s Land Administration Programme (Terra Segura)
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-01)
This policy brief reports findings from a study undertaken by researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) investigating the formalisation of ...
Women’s Lived Realities Under Customary Tenure in Rural South Africa and Policy Implications
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-02)
Zambia’s Customary Landholding Certificate and Tenure Options for Women
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-02)
The Land and Its People: the land question and the South African political order
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-03)
This paper examines the disjuncture between the discourses of policy deliberation and
contentious politics in debates about ‘the land question’ in South Africa. It argues that the South
African land debate as it unfolds ...
Securing Tenure for Customary Land Rights Holders in Southern Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2023-02)
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)
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 ...