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A qualitative study on resource barriers facing scaled container-based sanitation service chains
(International Water Association publishers, 2022)
Container-based sanitation (CBS) is an increasingly recognised form of off-grid sanitation provision appropriate for impoverished urban environments. To ensure a safely managed and sustainable service, a managing organisation ...
Climate change and rural livelihoods in Southern Africa: An agenda for policy-oriented research
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2022)
This report is the outcome of an extensive review of the
literature and the debates on climate change and landbased
livelihoods in Southern Africa.
In the context of the converging climate and food crises,
it provides ...
Rights and representation support justice across aquatic food systems
(Nature Research, 2022)
Injustices are prevalent in food systems, where the accumulation of vast
wealth is possible for a few, yet one in ten people remain hungry. Here,
for 194 countries we combine aquatic food production, distribution
and ...
Cash transfers for sustainable rural livelihoods? Examining the long-term productive effects of the Child Support Grant in South Africa
(Elsivier, 2020)
Cash transfers have received increased scholarly and policy attention, as a means of reducing poverty in the global South. While cash transfers are primarily intended to prevent impoverishment and deprivation, several ...
Resisting agrarian neoliberalism and authoritarianism: Struggles towards a progressive rural future in Mozambique
(Wiley, 2022)
After nearly two and a half decades with a Land Law widely
considered progressive, Mozambique is preparing to revise
its legal framework for land. Land activists accuse the government
of pursuing an authoritarian approach, ...
Lockdown, resilience and emergency statecraft in the Cape Town food system
(Cities, 2022)
Well before the Covid-19 pandemic, rapidly growing cities of the global South were at the epicenter of multiple converging crises affecting food systems. Globally, government lockdown responses to the disease triggered ...
Climate change and agrarian justice
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Three papers formed the focus of this session. Zehra Yaţın et al presented on the environmentalisation of the agrarian question and the agrarianisation of the climate justice movement. Noemi Gonda et al presented on ...
Strategic and Reflective Report: PLAAS 2021-2022
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies: PLAAS, 2022)
This biennial report offers an account of PLAAS during a time of challenge and transition. If 2020 was the Year of the Pandemic, then 2021-2022 ushered in the Years of the New (ab)Normal. In 2020, attention was almost ...