Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS): Recent submissions
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Recommendations for revisions to inland fishery access rights and property rights regimes
(2011)• Deliverable Aims: • Evaluate and analyse existing property rights and access rights currently governing inland fisheries in South Africa • Recommend reforms or changes to the existing property rights regimes and access ... -
The social dynamics of rural poverty in the Eastern Cape
(2017)Overview • Structural poverty & its causes • Understanding impoverished livelihoods : i. Social grants ii. Informal economic activity • Social dynamics • ‘Informal social protection’ • The downside of ‘social capital’ -
Beyond the 'problem' narrative: Towards an agenda for improved policy and practice in land reform
(2013)The ‘problem’ narrative •Land reform is too slow: it must be speeded up and better ways found of acquiring land at reasonable cost •Land reform beneficiaries are not productive enough: they must be ‘disciplined’ or land ... -
Livelihoods & social differentiation in ‘post-agrarian’ South Africa
(2017)• Legacy: Settler colonialism & migrant labour • Industrialization & proletarianisation • Dichotomous agrarian landscape • Rural poverty, esp. former homelands • Longstanding deagrarianisation -
Social protests and water service delivery in South Africa
(2013-09-13)• To identify the key drivers of water-related social protests, roles of organization and mobilization and dynamics of perceived deprivation. -
Class formation across borders: migrant workers in international borderlands
(2014)• Agricultural boom in tobacco: introduced commercially in 1994 (+699% 2000-2009) • Labour intensive, use of HH labour and migrant wage labour (Seasonal L and sharecroppers, atypical) • 130.000 small scale producers. 1:3 ... -
Retribalisation in post-apartheid South Africa: new “traditional” laws & their impacts on rural women
(2011)• The rise of traditional leaders – in political, economic, governmental, judicial & legislative terms – amounts to a modern, post-apartheid retribalisation of the countryside • Deleterious effect on rights • Roots of ... -
Supporting smallholders into commercial agriculture: The role of private sector partnerships
(2016-07-25)• SSCA is a research project started by the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) and the South Africa Food Lab (SAFL). • Commenced in April 2012 with a specific focus on private sector support to ... -
Efficacy of rights based management within an ecosystems approach to fisheries - Small pelagics in South Africa
(2013)• South Africa issued long-term fishing rights (2006 to 2020) for most commercial species Long-term rights a form of Rights Based Management (RBM) approach • Has committed itself to introduce an Ecosystems Approach to ... -
Biofuels investments in Tanzania: Policy options for sustainable business models
(2013-03-14) Biofuels: globally advocated as an environmentally friendly alternative source for energy US and Brazil: global producers of biodiesel and ethanol Southern African Nations: the “Middle East” of biofuels -Chief ... -
A constricted agricultural system: Cartels, collusion and corporate farming
(2014-07)A constricted agricultural system: cartels, collusion and corporate farming Nothing happens in a vacuum, let alone an agricultural system. South Africa’s has been shaped by very particular historical forces: colonisation, ... -
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA and the occupation of the Guinea Savannah
(2015)The US, EU and African agricultural modernisation G8 New Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN), USAID and US foreign policy AGRA – Gate Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation – philanthro-capitalism Corporate ... -
Towards a national minimum wage: what do we know about wages and employment in agriculture?
(2014)• Agriculture is a good sector to learn from when considering a national minimum wage because: – It is historically a low-wage sector – It has been shedding jobs – It is enormously diverse – A minimum wage was introduced ... -
Without the blanket of the land: Agrarian change and biopolitics in post-apartheid South Africa
(2015)What are the responses – from above and below – to processes of jobless de-agrarianization? What are the dynamics and the consequences of the inclusion of poor, vulnerable and unruly populations within processes of ... -
Land reform futures
(2015)Overarching story • Away from pro-poor neo-liberalism towards the convergence of state resources, private capital and traditional authority • Elite capture of shrinking state resources – dangerous combination in context ... -
Regional fish trade in Africa: Potential for food security, reducing poverty and fisheries management
(2015)Sub-Saharan Africa: context • One of the regions in the world suffering from high rates of hunger and poverty. • 26% of the world’s hungry people were located in sub-Saharan Africa in 2010 (FAO and WFP,2010) • Chronic ... -
Current policy processes and legislative reforms
(2011)•Land reform policy and legislation suffered under negotiated terms in the run-up to SA’s democracy •Land & agricultural policies were initiated and continued to move in disparate directions •Particular weaknesses resulted ... -
Economic informality in South Africa: practice & policy
(2015)SA context: • High poverty & unemployment, yet small SMME sector. • Informal sector: African, low earning, female & retail dominated. • Inhibited by: – Spatial, labour market & ‘human capital’ legacies -
Commercialisation of land and ‘land grabbing’ in Southern Africa: Implications for land rights and rural livelihoods
(2015)This project is conceived as a response to widespread concerns about the ‘land grab’ phenomenon in sub-Saharan Africa, and the dearth of grounded studies to understand how these deals are structured, who facilitates them, ... -
Patterns of accumulation in South Africa’s grain-livestock complex: raising questions of agrarian structure
(2017)• What is the grain-livestock ‘complex’ (GLC)?: – ‘Complex’ rests on the key linkage between maize and soya key inputs and central cost ingredients in production of feed for intensive livestock production (pigs, chickens ...