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Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa
(Routledge, 2018)
This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political
economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian
analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist
governmentality. Looking at South ...
The humble sardine (small pelagics): fish as food or fodder
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)
Background: The group of small pelagic fish is the largest species group landed globally. A significant proportion of
this nutrient-rich food is processed and lost to livestock feed, fish feed, fish oil, pet food and ...
Elite capture and state neglect: new evidence on South Africa’s land reform
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
The most recent incarnation of South Africa’s land reform is a model
of state purchase of farms to be provided on leasehold, rather than
transferring title. This briefing presents headline findings from our
field research ...
Participatory commodity networking: An integrated framework for Fairtrade research and support
(SAGE Publications, 2018)
This article discusses the potential for humanizing production and trade relations by extending action research to multilateral commodity networks. Participatory action research and Fairtrade certification both promote ...
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change
(Taylor & Francis OA, 2017)
Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale, avoid dispossessing local people of their land, promote diversified and sustainable livelihoods, and catalyse more vibrant local ...
Small-scale fisheries governance and understanding the snoek (Thyrsites atun) supply chain in the Ocean View fishing community, Western Cape, South Africa
(Resilience Alliance, 2013)
Postapartheid fisheries reform in South Africa, through the Marine Living Resources Act (MLRA) 18 of 1998, used individual transferable quotas (ITQs) to broaden resource access through allocating quotas to new entrants, ...
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)
This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to
consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South
Africa’s economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal ...
Improving policy coherence for food security and nutrition in South Africa: a qualitative policy analysis
(Springer Netherlands, 2018)
Like most other low and middle-income countries, South Africa must address a rising burden of diet-related chronic disease in a
situation of persistent food insecurity and undernutrition. Supply-side policy interventions ...
Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa
(Academy of Science of South Africa and AOSIS, 2017)
Cape Town is a fast-growing cityscape in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa with 24 formally
protected conservation areas including the World Heritage Table Mountain National Park. These sites
have been protected ...
Introduction: reconsidering the region in India: mobilities, actors and development politics
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
In this introduction to a special issue on ‘Reconsidering the Region in India’, we aim to develop a synthetic and theoretically nuanced account of the multifarious ways in which the idea of region has been imbricated in ...