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Backing small-scale fishers: Opportunities and challenges in transforming the fish sector
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Globally, small-scale fisheries play a significant role in food security, poverty reduction and income generation (Béné et al 2007; Heck et al 2007; Béné et al 2010; FAO 2003). At the 2008 Global Conference on Small-Scale ...
LEGEND state of the debate report 2016 - Strengthening land governance: Lessons from implementing the Voluntary Guidelines
(Legend, 2017)
The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance
of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context
of National Food Security (VGGT) are a globally agreed
standard. Achieving this normative consensus in ...
The contested status of ‘communal land tenure’ in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Twenty years have passed since the Bantustans were reintegrated into South Africa. Yet for the 17 million people still living in these former homelands, the struggle for full recognition of their land rights persists. The ...
Corporate concentration and food security in South Africa: is the commercial agro-food system delivering?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Although the current agro-food system in South Africa has the technical and organisational capacity to meet domestic food needs, there are major problems with access to food and with the nutrient content of existing food ...
Biennial report 2016-2017
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2018)
Besides research and postgraduate teaching, PLAAS undertakes training, provides advisory, facilitation
and evaluation services and is active in the field of national policy development. Through these activities,
and by ...
Annual report 2014
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Very often, in our work at PLAAS, we encounter two common misunderstandings about what it is that we do and why it is important. One common misunderstanding is that we are some sort of technical agricultural education ...
Annual report 2015
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
The year 2015 was a momentous one for PLAAS. It marked twenty years since the day that PLAAS started off as an organisation with some generous start-up funding from the Ford Foundation. PLAAS started life small: initially ...
Reconsidering rural development: Using livelihood analysis to examine rural development in the former homelands of South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)
‘Rural development’ as concept and focus of
public policy is comparatively new, having
emerged in the post-war period. Much of the
impetus for ‘rural development’ arose in the
context of newly decolonised, low-income ...
Commercialisation of land in Namibia’s communal land areas: A critical look at potential irrigation projects in Kavango East and Zambezi regions
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Large-scale land acquisitions by both foreign
and local investors for agriculture, forestry
and wildlife purposes, among others, remain
a major challenge for African governments.
In recent years, the Namibian ...
Large-scale land acquisitions in Zambia: Evidence to inform policy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Land in Zambia plays a vital role in sustaining
livelihoods, ensuring food security and reducing
poverty. If people are not able to access
land (including communal interests, such as
lands for grazing or access to water ...