Seminar Programme 2008
Sue Parnell (UCT) - Urban land, resources and governance
Philani Zamchiya: Between a rock and a hard place
Zimbabwean migrants on commercial farms in Limpopo, South Africa
Ben Cousins & Cheryl Walker: Social change and gendered land rights in Kwa-Zulu Natal
Ashley Westaway: An analysis of why 'betterment' was excluded from land restitution
The Leftovers of commercial fishing rights systems are what small-scale fishers will have to fight for
Siphelo Ngcwangu: SA Fair Trade rooibos tea
SEMINAR: 2 July 2009 - Crystal Jennecke - Land, identity, community, and conflict
SEMINAR - 6 August 2009: Inequality, land redistribution and agricultural production in South Africa
Seminar - 20 August 2009: The economic impact of welfare grants on selected Kwa-Zulu Natal communities by Michael Aliber (Senior Researcher, PLAAS)
PLAAS Seminar - 1 October 2009: Science, policy and power in South African nature conservation: An exploration of narratives by Isayvani Naicker (U. of Cambridge)
"Farm dwellers, the Forgotten People? Tenure rights, labour relations and livelihoods of farm dwellers/workers in the context of private game farming in Cradock."
PRESENTERS: Femke Brandt, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam ; Nomalanga Mkhize, University of Cape Town and co-presenter of acclaimed SABC 3 documentary series 'Shoreline'
PLAAS Seminar - 4 February 2010: What is a ‘smallholder’? Class-analytic perspectives on small-scale farming and agrarian reform in South Africa by Prof. Ben Cousins
PLAAS Seminar - 18 February 2010 : Pregnant Teens and Welfare Queens: Reviewing the evidence for the developmental impact of social grants by David Neves
PLAAS Seminar: 11 March 2010 - A case study of working with members of a small farmer cooperative in the Northern Cape by Sandra Kruger and Zaitun Rosenberg
PLAAS Seminar: 8 April 2010 - SA’s land governing structures conduits for illicit self-enrichment? by Andile Sokomani
PLAAS Seminar: 15 April - Facilitating meaningful engagement between state law and living customary law: The story of 4 communities: Kalkfontein, Makuleke, Makgobistad, Dixie by Henk Smith, Wilmien Wicomb and Kobus Pienaar (Legal Resources Centre)
A Comparative Study of Rural Water Governance in the Limpopo Basin
Presenter: Pinimidzai Sithole (PLAAS PHD Student)
SEMINAR: 18 November 2010, 13h00-14h00 in the PLAAS BOARDROOM
The Land Question in Malawi: Bio-Contract and Policy-Based Discipline
Seminar: Brand Aid
In this presentation, Dr Stefano Ponte presents a new book that examines the rise of a new modality of development financing: ‘Brand Aid’. In Brand Aid, celebrities ask consumers to ‘do good’ by buying particular brands to solve a development problem. Brand Aid is ‘aid to brands’ because it helps sell branded products and improve a brand’s ethical profile and value. It is also ‘brands that provide aid’ because a proportion of the profit or sales is devoted to helping distant others.
SEMINAR: A Tale of Two Dorpies: Case Studies from Limpopo and a Perspective on Land Reform and Rural Development Policy
Labour in Large Scale Agriculture in Africa and Southeast Asia