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Tillage practices affect weeds differently in monoculture vs. crop rotation
(Elsevier, 2020)Reduced tillage practices are widely considered to be more sustainable than conventional tillage practices, but many producers remain reluctant to reduce tillage due to difficulties controlling weeds. Crop rotation is often ... -
Tourism taxation, politics and territorialisation in Tanzania’s wildlife management
(Medknow Publications, 2017)Tourism activities occurring on communal lands such as Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are increasing in Tanzania. This is the result of natural resources governance reforms aimed to empower communities to manage and ... -
Training of trainers module for gender sensitive community engagement in large scale land based investments in agriculture
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)WHY THIS TRAINING OF TRAINERS (ToT) MODULE? In 2013, the African Union (AU) commissioned an assessment study on the occurrence of large-scale land-based investments in agriculture (LSLBI). The study was commissioned under ... -
Transforming critical agrarian studies: Solidarity, scholar-activism and emancipatory agendas in and from the Global South
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)This paper examines the challenges and opportunities faced bycritical agrarian scholars in and from the Global South. We arguethat despite the historical and structural limitations, the criticaljuncture of convergence of ... -
A typology of fisheries management tools: using experience to catalyse greater success
(John Wiley & Sons, 2016)Fisheries provide nutrition and livelihoods for coastal populations, but many fisheries are fully or over-exploited and we lack an approach for analysing which factors affect management tool performance. We conducted a ... -
Value chain analysis of Lake Malawi fish: a case study of Oreochromis spp (Chambo)
(Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), 2013)Chambo has potential of improving fishers’ socio-economic status in Malawi. The paper examines Chambo value chain whose findings will improve fish marketing by actors along the chain. Quantitative value chain analysis used, ... -
The vampire squid: Value, crisis and the power of finance
(Wiley, 2019)Over the last five decades the power and global reach of financial institutions and finance capital to organize economic, social and political life has grown seemingly unchecked. This is manifested in the ability of ... -
Weed community assessment and response to smother cropping strategies at George, South Africa
(Editorial board of Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences, 2020)Weeds are one of the major constraints to crop cultivation that can affect crop yield based on their species composition and density. A field trial was initiated to assess the weed community composition and evaluate ... -
Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 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 Africa’s ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ...