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.

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 ...

The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is hosting an online workshop for its latest project titled “Privatisation of customary land and implications for women’s land tenure ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fatema Sarker is presently a DAAD scholar at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, pursuing her doctoral studies on the “Gender Dynamics and Human Nutrition in Livestock Production Systems.

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 ...

Muhamed Lunyago is a Third-year Graduate Student at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. He is a Ugandan pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD is social ...

Colonial and post-independence state assaults to customary land tenure in Africa have disrupted the conditions of land access and accentuated dispossessions perpetrated by politico-economic elites at ...