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Community Organizations Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Acronym
PLAAS
University or Research Institution

Focal point

info@plaas.org.za

Location

PLAAS was founded in 1995 as a specialist unit in the School of Government, Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town. Since then, PLAAS has developed a proven track record of undertaking high-quality research on land and agrarian reform, poverty, and natural resource management in South Africa and the southern African region.


Besides research and postgraduate teaching, PLAAS undertakes training, provides advisory, facilitation and evaluation services and is active in the field of national policy development. Through these activities, and by seeking to apply the tools of critical scholarship to questions of policy and practice, we seek to develop new knowledge and fresh approaches to the transformation of society in southern Africa.



Members:

Ruth Hall

Resources

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Tribal Land Administration in Botswana

Reports & Research
Novembre, 2009
Botswana
Afrique

Covers the Tribal Land Act, tribal land administration, customary law, Land Boards, some long-standing issues, problems encountered. Concludes that there are serious problems concerning the administration of tribal land, mainly due to poor governance and ill-advised changes to the Tribal Land Act and its regulations.

Another Countryside? Policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa

Reports & Research
Juin, 2009
Afrique du Sud
Afrique

This book is a compilation of 11 papers that explore the limits of the current approach to land redistribution in South Africa and propose policy alternatives. Centres on 3 themes: how land is to be acquired (which land, and for whom), under what tenure arrangements it is to be held, and how production is to be supported. Focus moves beyond debating alternatives to the ‘willing-buyer, willing-seller’ paradigm to the kind of agrarian change that land reform should pursue. Central to all is reconfiguring the roles of state and market.

Contested paradigms of ’viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from Southern Africa

Reports & Research
Juin, 2009
Afrique

Includes modernisation and agricultural development in Southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia) past and present; framing viability: frameworks for assessing land and agrarian reform; viability in redistributive land reform in Southern Africa; rethinking viability in Southern African land reform.