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What South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruling on the Tafelberg property means for equitable access to land and spatial justice

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New Publication: Bridging divides against erratic democratic trajectories

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PLAAS stands in solidarity with African citizens

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Seminar: Decolonising tourism development at Victoria Falls: a new evolutionary economic geography perspective with Dr Mfundo Mlilo

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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
INVITE: Mega-launch of a mini-movie! FeaturedNews & EventsNews & Events Featured

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
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4th World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (4WSFC) FeaturedNews & EventsNews & Events Featured

4th World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (4WSFC)

A series of five regional congresses The 4WSFC AFRICA “Leading by Examples: Leaderships in Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries” Location: Cape Town, South Africa Date: November 21-23, 2022 Background The 4th World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress (4WSFC) is a transdisciplinary forum for all stakeholders involved in small-scale fisheries to participate in an interactive discussion about the world's small-scale fisheries and how to sustain…
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May 12, 2022
Masifundise Development Trust Field Researcher (6-month contract) BlogNews & Events

Masifundise Development Trust Field Researcher (6-month contract)

The Masifundise Development Trust (MDT) is collaborating with the Institute of Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) to seek for a field researcher based in iSiManagaliso and Kosi Bay to document evidence for Small-scale fishers Tribunal in 2023. Start date 1 June 2022 This is a call for individuals to apply for…
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May 5, 2022
BOOK LAUNCH: Capital Penetration and the Peasantry in Southern and Eastern Africa. FeaturedNews & EventsNews & Events Featured

BOOK LAUNCH: Capital Penetration and the Peasantry in Southern and Eastern Africa.

Book Launch SMAIAS in partnership with PLAAS invites you to the book launch of Capital Penetration and the Peasantry in Southern and Eastern Africa: Neoliberal Restructuring.  The book is edited by Freedom Mazwi, George T. Mudimu, and Kirk Helliker and is published by Springer Press. Neoliberal capitalism has diverse impacts on the peasantry. This book presents new research from several…
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May 3, 2022
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WEBINAR: Worsening Climate Chaos and the Challenge of Climate Justice FeaturedNews & EventsNews & Events Featured

WEBINAR: Worsening Climate Chaos and the Challenge of Climate Justice

THURSDAY 21 April 2022 from 13:00 – 14:00 SAST/CAT PLAAS invites you to a webinar titled ‘Worsening Climate Chaos and the Challenge of Climate Justice’. The webinar will be delivered by: Dr Vishwas Satgar - the Associate Professor of International Relations, editor of the Democratic Marxism series and principal investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene, University of the Witwatersrand,…
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April 11, 2022
WEBINAR: War and food – How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect African food systems? FeaturedNews & EventsNews & Events Featured

WEBINAR: War and food – How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect African food systems?

Thursday, 31 March 2022 from 13:00 – 14:00 SAST/CAT PLAAS invites you to a webinar titled ‘War and food: How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect African food systems?’ The speakers include: Prof. Steve Wiggins, Research fellow at Overseas Development Institute in United Kingdom. Refiloe Joala, Food Sovereignty Programme Manager at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and a Phd candidate at the Institute for…
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March 25, 2022