Across Africa, the majority of both rural and urban residents have insecure tenure rights, either in law or in practice. They face the legacy of land dispossession, colonial legal codes, contested ...

Who defines what rural development is, and how can it be understood within the wider context of capitalist development, conflicts and agrarian questions? Global climate change and sustainability ...

Joseph Chiombloa is an Advocate of the Court of Appeal, High Court and subordinate courts thereto save for ward tribunal. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law School of ...

WEBINAR: War and food – How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect African food systems?

Laila Sandroni is a Post-Doc fellow at the Wildlife, Ecology, Management and Conservation Lab, University of São Paulo, as a part of the project entitled “Towards Convivial Conservation: Governing ...

PLAAS Seminar: Is nationalisation and state custodianship of land a solution?

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 ...

Salma Abouelhossein is a PhD student in urban studies and planning at Harvard University. Her research interests are in urbanization and crisis, the materialities of the finance economy, ...

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

ONLINE SEMINAR: What is the place of production in social reproduction theory?