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Women's access to land in the former bantustans: Constitutional conflict, customary law, democratisation and the role of the state
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2000)The transition to local democratic institutions in the former bantustans of South Africa will not in itself fulfil the constitutional imperative for the promotion of gender equality, specifically in relation to womenís ... -
Women's access to land in the former Bantustans: Constitutional conflict, customary law, democratisation and the role of the state
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2000)The transition to local democratic institutions in the former bantustans of South Africa will not in itself fulfill the constitutional imperative for the promotion of gender equality, specifically in relation to women's ... -
Women's land rights and social change in rural South Africa: the case of Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal
(Juta Law, 2013)Changing marriage practices and a continuing decline in marriage rates are generating tensions in rural South Africa and prompting innovations in the character of women's rights to land. Empirical evidence of changing ... -
Women's land rights in Africa: Scorecard 2019
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)This Scorecard is for: MEASURING how committed governments are to women’s land rights in each country. COMPARING how women are confronting their governments about land rights. LEARNING how women are tackling their ... -
Women’s engagement in and outcomes from small-scale fisheries value chains in Malawi: Effects of social relations
(Spinger, 2019)Women play an important role within small-scale fishing communities in sub-Saharan Africa through engaging in fish value chain activities and contributing to household food security and income. There is, however, little ... -
Women’s Lived Realities Under Customary Tenure in Rural South Africa and Policy Implications
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Women’s participation in fish value chains and value chain governance in Malawi: A case of Msaka (Lake Malawi) and Kachulu (Lake Chilwa)
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017-05)This paper helps to fill an important gap that exists in gender responsive fish value chains by analysing the factors that influence women’s participation in fish value chains and value chain governance in Malawi. The study ... -
Workshop report: A critical response to government’s farm worker proposals: ‘Strengthening the relative rights of people working the land’
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)On Wednesday 30 April 2014, a group of people (30 to be specific) which consisted of farmworkers/ farm-dwellers, activists, students, and academics met to discuss the ‘final policy proposals’ on Strengthening the relative ... -
Workshop report: Farmworkers’ living and working conditions
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) has, with the support of the Atlantic Philanthropies through its Rural Research and Information Networking Project, engaged in supporting identified information ... -
Workshop Report: Re-thinking rural transformation in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)The Foundation for Human Rights (FHR) and Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) have collaborated to convene a civil society workshop aimed to strengthen strategic engagement around rural development and ... -
Youth futures and a masculine development ethos in the regional story of Uttarakhand
(SAGE Publications, 2017)Research on the Uttarakhand region, which became a new state in 2000, has focused largely on agrarian livelihoods, religious rituals, development demands, ecological politics and the role of women in regional social ... -
Zambia’s Customary Landholding Certificate and Tenure Options for Women
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Zimbabwe's new land crisis: Large-scale land investments at Chisumbanje
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Zimbabwe’s investments in agriculture, after a contested Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) underpinned by often violent land occupations (these were largely contained by the state by 2005), have triggered a ... -
Zimbabwe’s contested large-scale land-based investment: The chisumbanje ethanol project
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform from 2000 onward yielded significant land transfers, but led the country to face debilitating production challenges and lack of investment in agriculture. Since then, Zimbabwe has not ...
