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SEMINAR: The green transition in Africa and beyond – a tale of extractivism, fossil capitalism, and green (neo)colonialism

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SEMINAR: Navigating the green energy dilemma: a case study of geothermal development in Kenya

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Apply: PhD scholarships: Digital Agrarian Futures project

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Call for applications 2026: New Thinking on Integrating Biodiversity and Social Justice short course

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PLAAS Academic Seminar – Concentration, Competition and the Co-Evolution of Agro-food Capital in South Africa: The Case of the Milling Industry. News & EventsNews & Events Featured

PLAAS Academic Seminar – Concentration, Competition and the Co-Evolution of Agro-food Capital in South Africa: The Case of the Milling Industry.

The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies  (PLAAS) is inviting you to an academic seminar titled Concentration, Competition and the Co-Evolution of Agro-food Capital in South Africa: The Case of the Milling Industry. The seminar will be facilitated by PLAAS senior researcher Dr. Farai Mtero and presented by Dr. Andrew Bowman from the University of Edinburgh, UK. His presentation…
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October 19, 2022
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Global conference slams climate responses – Calls for agrarian justice

By Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Ruth Hall, Sergio Sauer, Sinem Kavak, Annie Shattuck, and Jacobo GrajalesWhile world leaders continue to believe that carbon markets and high-tech solutions will enable us to cope with the climate crisis, the gap widens between agrarian struggles and climate change efforts. Pre-existing agrarian struggles for land and livelihoods are often overlooked in an era of…
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October 10, 2022
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CONFERENCE: Climate Change and Agrarian Justice FeaturedNews & EventsNews & Events Featured

CONFERENCE: Climate Change and Agrarian Justice

The Journal of Peasant Studies and partners announces the international online conference on Climate Change and Agrarian Justice Dates: 26-29 September 2022 Time: 13.00 - 15.30 CAT/ CET each day Call for participation Climate change is inextricably entwined with capitalism, but how the relationship between capitalism and climate change plays out in the rural world requires deeper analysis. In particular,…
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September 21, 2022
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A Spring School in Political Economy and Political Ecology

The Agrarian Question and Contested Rural Futures in Africa A Spring School in Political Economy and Political Ecology  12-16 September 2022 The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape is hosting a Spring School on The Agrarian Question and Contested Rural Futures in Africa, in collaboration with the Global South Studies Center…
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September 5, 2022
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Land Conference 2022

The conference took place on 17-19 August 2022 Land Conference 2022 The Failed Promise of Tenure Security. Customary Land Rights and Dispossession. Hosted by Legal Resources Centre, LARC at University of Cape Town, PLAAS at University of Western Cape and SWOP and Wits. Conference Information Twenty-five years after South Africa’s Constitution was adopted the 18 million South Africans living in…
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August 12, 2022
OPEN LETTER: Violation of African Union and United Nations Standards on Land Governance News & EventsNews & Events Featured

OPEN LETTER: Violation of African Union and United Nations Standards on Land Governance

Dear Excellencies, the President and Prime Minister, and Honourable Ministers Violation of African Union and United Nations Standards on Land Governance We write in urgent response to the actions taken by your government at Loliondo. We write to you as African experts in the fields of land governance and tenure, natural resource management, economic development, sociology, development studies and political…
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June 16, 2022
Online Dialogue – Pushing Back: How activists are pushing for access to land and housing, and push back against a recalcitrant state, hostile corporate power and violence News & EventsNews & Events Featured

Online Dialogue – Pushing Back: How activists are pushing for access to land and housing, and push back against a recalcitrant state, hostile corporate power and violence

THURSDAY 23 JUNE 2022 from 13:00 – 15:00 SAST/CAT Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) and Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU) invites you to a second online dialogue on Equitable Access to Land in South Africa titled “Pushing Back: How activists are pushing for access to land and housing, and push back against a recalcitrant state, hostile corporate power and…
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June 15, 2022
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INVITE: Mega-launch of a mini-movie!

INVITE: Mega-launch of a mini-movie The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and partners are pleased to invite you to the official online launch of the African Food Systems During Covid animation. Date: 14 June 2022 Time: 13:00 - 13:30 CAT/SAST Register here: We will be screening the 6-minute animation…
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June 10, 2022
Book LAUNCH: Towards the Blue-Green City: Building Urban Water Resilience FeaturedNews & EventsNews & Events Featured

Book LAUNCH: Towards the Blue-Green City: Building Urban Water Resilience

THURSDAY 09 JUNE 2022 from 13:00 – 14:30 SAST/CAT PLAAS invites you to a launch for a book titled ‘Towards the Blue-Green City: Building Urban Water Resilience’. The speakers include: Ernst Conradie - Department of Religion and Theology, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Philip Clayton Clayton – Institute for Ecological and Civilization – California, United States. Larry A Swatuk…
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June 3, 2022
WEBINAR: Changing customary land tenure regimes and implications for women’s land rights FeaturedNews & EventsNews & Events Featured

WEBINAR: Changing customary land tenure regimes and implications for women’s land rights

THURSDAY 26 MAY 2022 from 13:00 – 14:30 SAST/CAT PLAAS invites you to a webinar titled 'Changing customary land tenure regimes and implications for women's land rights’. The webinar will begin with screening of a documentary - 'All we have comes from the land' - exploring women's land rights in Mozambique and Zambia.  The webinar features the following speakers: Waltraud Rabitsch,…
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May 16, 2022