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The role of family in the township informal economy of food and drink in KwaMashu, South Africa
(Emerald, 2018)
The purpose of this paper is to provide a qualitative investigation of family employment
dynamics in the KwaMashu township economy.
Using a small area census research method, the researchers identified
1,556 businesses ...
Migrant workers into contract farmers: Processes of labour mobilization in colonial and contemporary Mozambique
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
During the post-liberalization period, contract farming schemes have become a
recurrent feature of agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa. Contract
farming is not a new phenomenon in the continent but it has gained ...
Post-agrarian biopolitics
(Wiley, 2017)
How does one make sense of the incorporation of millions of South Africa’spoor and landless black people into a political and economic order thatcannot deliver on its promises — and what are the implications?The path of ...
Multi-stakeholder process of co-designing small-scale fisheries policy in South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2016)
In 2005, a group of researchers, community-based organizations and lawyers got together with small-scale fishers to launch a class action law suit against the government of South Africa in its allocation system of Individual ...
A 20-year evaluation of PLAAS research outputs: Impact on the scholarly domain and in social media
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2019)
Patterns and methods of scholarly communication have changed with the growth in information technology, particularly the Internet and the social web. The changes have necessitated a broader definition of scholarly communication ...
Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush
(Elsevier, 2019)
Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, naturalresource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ...
Can smallholder avocado production reduce poverty and improve food security through internal markets? The case of Giheta, Burundi
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
The role of agriculture in rural development is widely documented
in literature. Many analysts regard agriculture, specifically smallscale agriculture, as an effective instrument for poverty reduction
and food security, ...
Land beneficiaries as game farmers: conservation, land reform and the invention of the 'community game farm' in KwaZulu-Natal
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Scholarship on post-apartheid land reform includes research on land claims made to formal protected areas, such as national parks and state game reserves. Little attention has however, been paid to the question of land ...
Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
The most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food
in 2007–2008 has heightened the debate on the consequences of land investments, with
widespread media coverage, policy commentary ...
Revisiting unresolved questions: land, food and agriculture
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2011)
This article explores three articles from the perspective of 2011. They are Makhosazane Gcabashe and Alan Mabin’s ‘Preparing to negotiate
the land question’ (Transformation 11), Tom Bennett’s ‘Human rights and
the African ...