Postgraduate Students

Ayanda Madlala

Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs

Erica van der Merwe

Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs

Thesis:South Africa’s agro-food system through a complexity systems lens

Godfrey Eliseus Massay

Supervisor: Dr Phillan Zamchiya

Thesis: State Repossession of Farmlands in Tanzania: Critical Inquiry of Drivers, Processes and Impacts

Maliviwe Makeleni

Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero

Thesis: Economic analysis of Farming Systems towards Agrarian Reform in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

Nkanyiso Gumede

Supervisor: Prof Ben Cousins

Thesis: Social differentiation and the dynamics of labour on redistributed land in South Africa

Siphesihle Mbhele

Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs

Thesis: “Blue militarisation”: An expedition into understanding how the blue economy and 30×30 agenda policies and initiatives have resulted in militarisation and the criminalisation of livelihoods for coastal communities in Northen KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Sisanda Tembani

Supervisor: Prof Mafaniso Hara

Thesis: The role of urban agriculture in township food security: a case study of Cape Town

Siyabonga Dlamini

Supervisor: Dr Cyriaque Hakizimana

Thesis: Transforming rural economies through smallholder agriculture: Prospects and challenges for sustainable rural livelihoods in KwaZulu-Natal

Temakaolo Mathebula

Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero

Thesis: The role of social capital in promoting climate resilience in smallholder farming systems in Ozwathini, KwaZulu-Natal

Boaventura Monjane

Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall

Tapiwa Chatikobo

Supervisor: Prof Ben Cousins

Thesis: Livestock, grazing and land reform in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe: Dynamics of accumulation and social reproduction

Augustine Fosu

Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero

Thesis: Housing development and customary land tenure system in Ghana: a case study of peri-urban Kumasi

Bonani Loliwe

Thesis: Horticultural Enterprise Ownership Model: Macadamia Nuts in the Eastern Cape

Cassiem Khan

Supervisor: Prof Andries du Toit

Thesis: Food aid: beneficial or disempowering? Exploring the foodways 1 of beneficiaries of food parcels of four Social Welfare Organisations.

Chikondi Lydia Manyungwa

Supervisor: Prof Mafaniso Hara

Thesis:An investigation of women participation in fish Value chains and value chain governance in Malawi: A case of Msaka on Lake Malawi and Kachulu on Lake Chilwa

Deshni Pillay

Supervisor: Prof Mafa Hara

Thesis: Investigation of the health and wellbeing benefits from biodiversity in South Africa

Hlonela Nomvuzo Sonjani

Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero

Thesis: Evaluating the impact of government involvement and policy development in enhancing rural food security: a Zondeka location under Amathole Municipality household farming case study

Lebogang Moremedi

Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs

Thesis: Understanding the artisanal small scale diamond mining for sustainable livelihood in the Northern Cape: the case of ZamaZamas

Malebo Moepi

Supervisor: Prof Mafa Hara

Thesis: Informal and Formal Cross Border Fish Trade by Women in Southern Africa: The Case of Malawi and South Africa

Primrose Nkomboni

Supervisor: Dr Farai Mtero

Thesis: Agrarian reform, land use dynamic and livelihood changes: A case study of South-western Zimbabwe

Richard Lumumba Odenda

Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall

Thesis: Development as dispossession: policy choices, mega-projects and their effects on land rights in Tana River Delta, Kenya

Sienne Molepo

Supervisor: Prof Ruth Hall

Thesis: Shopping mall investments in rural South Africa: The extension of finance and retail capital onto customary land

Sifundiso Ndhlovu

Supervisor: Dr Phillan

Thesis: Agrarian reform, land use dynamic and livelihood changes: A case study of South-western Zimbabwe

Sivuyile Bomela

Thesis:Developing a Community-Based Agroecological Innovation System for the Commercialisation and Sustainable Integration of Indigenous Vegetables to Enhance Rural Food Security in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Tyla Cloete

Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs

Thesis: Small-Scale Fishing Rights in Cape Town

Wilson Mhlanga

Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs

Thesis: Governance, livelihoods, food security and gender roles in the Kapenta (Limnothrissa miodon) fishery on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe

Yoliswa Msweli

Supervisor: Prof Andries Du Toit

Thesis: Establishing a conception of justice for land from the ground up: a case study of land dispossession and sugar cane plantation development in Zinkwazi, Kwa-Zulu Natal

Yvette le Fleur

Supervisor: Prof Moenieba Isaacs

Thesis: Social-Ecological Vulnerability and Possibility in the Olifants River Valley: Justice in a Time of Polycrisis