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.

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 ...

Marital status, urbanisation, and violence: a three-pronged threat to women’s land rights in South Africa.

Juan Camilo Portela-García is a final year student of the Doctorate in Social Science Research with a major in Sociology at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, sede Mexico ...

Francis Guedes is a Brazilian PhD student in Agroecosystems at UFSC – Brazil, who researches dairy farming in distinct productive organization forms in Cuba. In different roles in the field and in ...

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 ...

NELGA short course in ‘the political economy of land governance’ goes to West Africa ...

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, ...