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Annual report 2000
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2001)
The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) focuses on the land restitution and
redistribution programmes initiated by the post-apartheid democratic state; land tenure reform;
emerging regimes of natural resource ...
Annual report 2004
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)
The wider context of our research and training, and the ultimate rationale for establishing and
maintaining a centre such as PLAAS, is the key challenge of deeply entrenched poverty, as well as
the inequality to which ...
Annual report 2003
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)
Applied social science researchers generally want to see their
research influence policy and practice; those of a more activist
bent seek to ‘change the world, not simply to interpret it’.1
In its
mission statement ...
Annual report 2012
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
In much of the global South the instability in global financial
systems continued to have dire effects – and there were
many worrying signs that the serious food price inflation the
world experienced in 2008 would return. ...
Annual report 2001
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
PLAAS continues to grow and to take on new projects and staff. This presents a number of
challenges, not least of which is the sustainability of such growth. The year 2001 saw the
completion of a twelve month-long ...
Annual report 2006-2007
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2008)
Over the past two years the contradictions
inherent in South Africa’s post-apartheid growth
and development path have become increasingly
evident. Growth has not managed to reduce very
high levels of unemployment to a ...
Annual report 2002
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
The year 2002 was an extremely busy one for PLAAS staff, and saw the initiation of many new
projects and activities, some of them qualitatively different to anything undertaken before. These
included an in-depth, national ...
PLAAS annual report 2013
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
This Act is most commonly associated with the consolidation of the colonial ‘land grab’, which had gathered force during the previous 200 years, and with helping to create the framework for the infamous ‘Black Spot ...
PLAAS Annual Report 2020
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021)
In our previous Annual Report, I remarked that 2019 seemed to be a year of the gathering storm. Little did we know what was coming. As we looked forward to 2020, we knew that it was going to be a significant year. For one ...