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

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 ...

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 ...

The South African government recently announced a plan to allocate 700,000 hectares of state land to black farmers. Exactly how many farms and beneficiaries this will involve is unclear. But there’s a ...

PODCAST Ep 12: China’s ‘Going Out’ Policy And Global Agrarian Change ...

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, ...

Bandile Mkhwanazi is employed by the National Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment. His primary objective as an Environmental Scientist, a confident communicator, a motivating team ...

Ph.D. candidate in Social Sciences at the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture and Society, Master in International Relations by the Institute of International Relations ...

Diana Isabel Güiza-Gómez is pursuing a joint Ph.D. in Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and affiliated to the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the ...

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