Across the continent, Africans are witnessing their most fertile agricultural lands being sold‐off for the global biofuel industry at unprecedented rates, fueling social anxiety and unrest. In Madagascar, unrest intensified so much in 2008 that populist protests against a government land deal...
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Civic engagement and protest movements
by Benjamin D Neimark in 2013
by Rebecca Pointer in 2012
This report covers a period in which PLAAS sought to clarify and consolidate its vision, and elaborate an agenda for research, policymaking, teaching and training that emphasises the centrality of the dynamics of chronic poverty and structural inequality in South Africa. The particular emphasis...
by Ghazala Mansuri, Vijayendra Rao in 2013
The report provides a conceptual framework for thinking about participatory development and then uses this framework to conduct a comprehensive review of the literature. The framework develops the concept of “civil society failure” and explains its interaction with government and market failures...
by Leonardo G. Romeo in 2012
This paper) argues that decentralization is commonly discussed as part of the “good governance” agenda, much less of the “developmental state” agenda.….Yet in most developing countries, the most pressing issue (and a more realistic goal for aid influence) is not to change the State from...
by Wouter Beekman, Gert Jan Veldwisch in 2012
The case of Munda Munda irrigation system in Nante, Zambezia, Mozambique, is an example of how a smallholder community, with the active support of local NGOs, has successfully defended its land and water resources against several attempts of resource grabbing. This article examines the...