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Small Grant Recipients

The Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) is a network initiated by five university-based research institutions with the purpose of promoting
'engaged research' on the recent explosion of (trans) national commercial and corporation-driven land transactions. In-depth and
systematic enquiry has become urgent and necessary in order to have deeper, meaningful and productive debates around this issue.

The LDPI has launched a global small grants programme to produce solid evidence and detailed, field-based research. PLAAS is coordinating the
LDPI small grants programme in Africa, and has awarded 20 small grants to early career scholars to document land deals centred on food,
biofuels, minerals, forestry and conservation that are unfolding in 14 different African countries. The 20 grantees for Africa are:

Lila Buckley

MSc Candidate 2010, Environmental Change and Management University of Oxford

David Deng

J.D. Candidate, 2010 New York University School of Law

Patience Mutopo

William Tsuma

Maura Andrew

Michael Chasukwa

Ngeta Kabiri

Tom Lavers

Lauren Coyle

Kathleen Guillozet

Hygin Kakai

Claire Bedelian

Christopher Mahonge

Caroline Seagle

Rene Oyono

Martin Keulertz

Leah Temper

Gavin Capps

Upcoming Seminars: Labour in Large Scale Agriculture in Africa and Southeast Asia Cape Town,
2012-09-19; LDPI International Academic Conference: Global Land Grabs II Cornell University,
2012-10-17; Upcoming events…

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New Publications

Umhlaba Wethu 14 (Special Edition): Re-introducing the traditional courts bill: This edition focuses on the many weaknesses and shortcomings of the Traditional Courts Bill and its implications when passed in its current form. It aims to inform a wide range of civil society organisations and social actors debating the Bill with the intention to reshape the regulation of the traditional justice system.
Rural civil society scan: Report on the research process and findings: In this presentation, Rick de Satge reports on finding from a scan of rural civil society in South Africa, including a literature review, and proposes a new model for understanding rural civil society based on formality/informality and inward/outward looking
Characterization of indigenous knowledge and practice and current subsistence, commercial and recreational techniques and practices for using fish in storage dams in selected rural areas of South Africa: WRC Consultative Workshop on Inland Fisheries - presentation

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