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The implications of the mobility of South African capital for rural youth in Africa: The case of Zambian sugar
(2015)
Developing young people as independent farmers and producers, capable to establish land-based livelihood at their own and on their own terms, seems to be the most desirable option to ensure the rural futures of rural ...
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 ...
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 ...
Directions for land reform – what might another Green Paper propose? Alternative options and their ideological underpinnings
(2012)
International and SA debates: 4 broad approaches & loose coalitions
• “Modernist-conservative”/modernisation: support the existing structure of agriculture (capital intensive farming in large units) but deracialise LSCF ...
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 ...
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 after land reform: Namibia country report (2010) Section B
(Land, Environment and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre, 2010)
The first AALS farmers in Hardap obtained their land in 1992, and the most recent in 2003. In Omaheke, the first AALS farmer obtained his farm in 1992 and the most recent, a woman, in 2000. Thus in both regions the oldest ...
Water for agrarian reform and rural poverty eradication: Where is the leak?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)
The distribution of water use is undoubtedly the sharpest inequality inherited from the past in South Africa, with a Gini Coefficient of 0.96 and higher. Unfortunately, as the review in this paper suggests, the gap is even ...
Apartheid space and fractured power: Vicious cycles of poverty in Cornfields, KwaZulu-Natal
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)
Apartheid space and fractured power: vicious cycles of poverty in Cornfields, KwaZulu-Natal
A neglected area in the literature on structural poverty is changing land tenure relations and the disconnect with planning ...