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

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 ...

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 ...

The snoek run is a quintessential part of life in fishing communities on the West Coast and in the Cape Town metropolitan area. This bony fish, which has a distinctive taste due to the anchovies and ...

Briefing note on “Legal pluralism and poor implementation hold back women’s land rights in Africa: What can we do?” ...

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, ...

PLAAS WEBINAR: The implication of the termination of the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant and the proposals moving forward ...

PODCAST Ep. 9: Women, fish and COVID impacts on African food systems ...

I graduated from the Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University. My thesis focuses on gendered rural transformation in Turkey based on women peasant-workers’ working practices and ...

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, ...