The Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies small book series Open Access ebook edition is now available through the PLAAS ...

Across Southern Africa, communally governed rangelands and grasslands support wildlife, vast informal economies and millions of people. There has been international interest in rangelands as spaces ...

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

Women predominate in many sectors of the informal economy; their lives, work, and struggles are often invisible to government and to the public at large. Last week, PLAAS and the Faculty of Economic ...

In a recent court ruling, presided over by Justice Mwayera at the Mutare High Court on 24 July 2020, an interdict was granted to prevent the eviction of 750 households from their homes and ...

The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is hosting an online workshop for its latest project titled “Privatisation of customary land and implications for women’s land tenure ...

Webinar: Fattening the curve–The bio-politics of food, livelihoods and Covid-19 in Kumasi (Ghana) and Cape Town (South Africa) Join PLAAS for a webinar on “Fattening the curve–The bio-politics of food ...

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 ...

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