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The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is a leading research and teaching centre with an international reputation for high quality applied research and critical scholarship.

PLAAS was founded in 1995 as a specialist unit in the School of Government, in the Economic and Management Sciences Faculty, at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town. Since then, PLAAS has developed a proven track record of undertaking high-quality research on land and agrarian reform, poverty, and natural resource management in South Africa and the southern African region.

Besides research and postgraduate teaching, PLAAS undertakes training, provides advisory, facilitation and evaluation services and is active in the field of national policy development. Through these activities, and by seeking to apply the tools of critical scholarship to questions of policy and practice, we seek to develop new knowledge and fresh approaches to the transformation of society in southern Africa.

NEW BOOK AVAILABLE NOW

Another Countryside?
Policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa

edited by Ruth Hall

This book is a compilation of papers that explore the limits of the current approach to land redistribution in South Africa and propose policy alternatives. The book centres on three themes: how land is to be acquired (which land, and for whom), under what tenure arrangements it is to be held and how production is to be supported. The focus moves beyond debating alternatives to the ‘willing-buyer, willing-seller’ paradigm to the kind of agrarian change that land reform should pursue. Central to all this is reconfiguring the roles of state and market.

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