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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 ...
Establishing an economically and biologically sustainable and viable inland fisheries sector in South Africa – pitfalls of path dependence
(Water Research Commission, 2022)
Small-scale fisheries play a significant role in livelihoods and food and nutrition security for millions of people
around the world. However, these benefits are under threat, especially in developing countries such as ...
Dietary patterns, food insecurity, and their relationships with food sources and social determinants in two small island developing states
(MDPI, 2022)
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have high burdens of nutrition-related chronic
diseases. This has been associated with lack of access to adequate and affordable nutritious foods
and increasing reliance on imported ...
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 ...
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 ...