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Zimbabwe's new land crisis: Large-scale land investments at Chisumbanje
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Zimbabwe’s investments in agriculture, after a
contested Fast Track Land Reform Programme
(FTLRP) underpinned by often violent land
occupations (these were largely contained by
the state by 2005), have triggered a ...
Commercialisation of land and ‘Land Grabbing': Implications for Land Rights and livelihoods in Malawi
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This study investigates the processes and
impact of commercialisation of land in Malawi
– specifically the acquisition of huge tracts
of communal lands by foreign companies and
local elites for sugarcane production in ...
Vulnerability and social protection at the margins of the formal economy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
This report sets out the results of an in-depth study of livelihood strategies and
‘coping mechanisms’ among poor people in one very specific, but highly significant
context of poverty in South Africa. Its core concrete ...
Livelihoods after land reform: The impacts of land reform on livelihoods in Namibia: Section B
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 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 ...
Emerging rooibos farmer market access project
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Global markets increasingly require rapid and coordinated response to standards and certification. Yet despite broad political transformations in post‐Apartheid South Africa, structural power relations limit emerging farmer ...
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Zimbabwe country report
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has undergone several phases of land redistribution,
generally to communal and working people. The latest phase was the Fast-Track Land Reform
Programme (FTLRP), which began in 2000 ...
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Malawi country report
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
There is a growing literature on the links between farm and non-farm employment activities in rural societies and the important roles played by rural non-farm employment in poverty reduction (Lanjouw, 2001; Davis et al., ...
A scan of rural civil society
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
PLAAS commissioned Phuhlisani to undertake
a review of rural civil society, to explore
innovative ways in which researchers and
organisations in rural civil society can work
together in linking research to policy ...
Schmidtsdrift community land claim
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The historic land of the Schmidtsdrift community lies along
the banks of the Vaal River in the Northern Cape province,
along the R300 road to Griquastad, approximately 71 km
west from Kimberley and 53 km north-east from ...
Trans-boundary natural resources management in southern Africa: Local historical and livelihood realities within the Great Limpopo Trans-frontier Conservation Area
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The end of apartheid rule in South Africa, together with the termination of the civil war in Mozambique and the occupation of Namibia by South Africa in the early 1990s, seemed to herald profound changes in international ...