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Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa
(Academy of Science of South Africa and AOSIS, 2017)
Cape Town is a fast-growing cityscape in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa with 24 formally
protected conservation areas including the World Heritage Table Mountain National Park. These sites
have been protected ...
Introduction: reconsidering the region in India: mobilities, actors and development politics
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
In this introduction to a special issue on ‘Reconsidering the Region in India’, we aim to develop a synthetic and theoretically nuanced account of the multifarious ways in which the idea of region has been imbricated in ...
Immunoglobulin G response and performance in Holstein calves supplemented with garlic powder and probiotics
(MDPI, 2020)
The study evaluated the effects of garlic, probiotics, and in combination on levels of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and growth performance in new-born Holstein calves. Thirty-two Holstein calves were randomly allocated to ...
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 ...
Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures: A review of 33 procedures in 15 countries
(Elsevier, 2020)
Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary tenure arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may seek ...
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 ...