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 ...

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

PLAAS mourns the passing of beloved PhD student, Avhatakali Sithagu ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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

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