The Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies small book series Open Access ebook edition is now available through the PLAAS ...

This masterclass forms part of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa lecture series, hosted by PLAAS.

Women predominate in many sectors of the informal economy; their lives, work, and struggles are often invisible to government and to the public at large. Last week, PLAAS and the Faculty of Economic ...

In a recent court ruling, presided over by Justice Mwayera at the Mutare High Court on 24 July 2020, an interdict was granted to prevent the eviction of 750 households from their homes and ...

This report sketches the outlines of our research agenda on the intersections of climate change, agrarian change, and rural livelihoods. The report marks an important change for us. For more than ...

PLAAS Webinar: Securing land tenure rights: Dissecting the Upgrading of Land Rights Amendment Bill ...

PLAAS is an independent Policy Research Institute within the Faculty for Economic and Management Sciences at the University of the Western Cape. Our research concentrates on the role of land, ...

PLAAS hosts workshop on women’s land tenure security in Southern Africa ...

Global capital accumulation involves international trade, a flow of profits, interest, and rent from investments, and wealth owned by a country’s investors in other countries. With the increased role ...

Nadya Karimasari is an Indonesian PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Development, Wageningen University, studying nature conservation in Leuser, Northern Sumatra. In 2019 ...

This paper aims to analyze how the neoliberal transformation of agriculture in Turkey has produced differential vulnerabilities to climate change, and to what extent and how the responses of various ...