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Mafa Hara (senior researcher at PLAAS) is a guest editor in the latest issue of Development Southern Africa
New HSRC publication now available - "The struggle over land in Africa" edited by Ward Anseeuw and Chris Alden
Two new policy briefs recently published in the 'Livelihoods After Land Reform' project
Masters, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Study with the South African Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies - CLOSING DATE: 15 December 2009
Postraduate Programme Applications for 2010 has been extended to 16 October 2009
CONFERENCE ADVERTISEMENT: RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM - 21 - 22 OCTOBER 2009
This is NOT a PLAAS event
SEMINAR AT UNIV. of STELLENBOSCH by Prof. Derick Fay (Univ. of California) - The Unsettled Settlement
Prof. Ben Cousins awarded a NRF Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Land, Power and Custom by Ben Cousins and Aninka Claassens on sale at PLAAS
Review and inspection copies of "African Indigenous Vegetables in Urban Agriculture" now available from Earthscan
Prof. Cousin's book "Land, Power and Custom" is long-listed - NOW ON SALE AT PLAAS
FREE DOWNLOADS of Journal of Peasant Studies articles
Free downloads of important recent articles available
BOOKLET: GUIDELINES for negotiating social research in communities living adjacent to transboundary protected areas: Kruger National Park
Views on the ANC election manifesto in relation to rural and agricultural development and land reform by Ben Cousins
'How not to connect the rural poor to markets' a presentation by Andries du Toit
PLAAS Students graduate on 18 March
The PLAAS students of 2008 will be graduating at UWC on 18 March 2009
'Crisis in Land Reform: The way out is not complicated' by Stephen Greenberg
An online article by Stephen Greenberg (Independent)
PLAAS seminar “The leftovers of commercial fishing is what small-scale fishers will have to fight for” was a hit
An analysis of the budget for rural development and land reform in 2010/11
20–22 SEPTEMBER 2010 — NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRUCTURAL POVERTY IN SOUTH AFRICA "Overcoming inequality and structural poverty in South Africa: Towards inclusive growth and development"