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Working Paper 20: Nasruddin’s Key: Poverty Measurement and the Government of Marginal Populations
This paper considers the role of ‘measurement’ and other forms of poverty knowledge in a context where the nature and direction of global economic growth is creating ‘surplus populations’ suffering various forms of marginalisation in the global economy.
Working Paper 19: The Next Great Trek?: South African Commercial Farmers Move North
This paper analyses the shifting role of South African farmers, agribusiness and capital elsewhere in southern Africa and the rest of the continent. It explores recent expansion trends, investigates the interests and agendas shaping such deals, and the legitimating ideologies and discourses employed in favour of them.
Working Paper 18: Rights without Illusions: The Potential and Limits of Rights-Based Approaches to Securing Land Tenure in Rural South Africa
Summarising the trajectory of tenure policy and law making from 1994 through to the present, the paper shows how discourses of rights, citizenship and democracy shape policies and legislation. We assess the policies and outcomes, and argue that the degree to which legally defined rights to land have been realised in practice depends in large part on the outcome of local-level struggles within shifting relations of power.
Working paper 17: The Case for Re-Strategising Spending Priorities to Support Small Scale Farmers in South Africa by Ruth Hall and Michael Aliber
Hall, R. and Aliber, M (2010) The Case for Re-Strategising Spending Priorities to Support Small Scale Farmers in South Africa. Working Paper 17, April 2010. PLAAS, University of the Western Cape. (WP17) April 2010
Working paper 16: What is a 'smallholder'? by Ben Cousins
Cousins, B. (2010) What is a 'smallholder'? Working Paper 16, January 2010. PLAAS, University of the Western Cape. (WP16)
Working Paper 15 - Contested paradigms of 'viability' in redistributive land reform by Ben Cousins and Ian Scoones
Working Paper 15 - Contested paradigms of 'viability' in redistributive land reform by Ben Cousins and Ian Scoones (WP15)
Working Paper 14 - The occupational dimensions of poverty and disability by E. Madeleine Duncan & Ruth M. Watson
Working Paper 14. The occupational dimensions of poverty and disability by E. Madeleine Duncan & Ruth M. Watson. PLAAS Working Paper 14. PLAAS, UWC. Cape Town, 2009. WP14
Working Paper 13 - More to life than economics and livelihoods by Josette Cole
Working Paper 13 - More to life than economics and livelihoods : the politics of social protection and social development in post apartheid South Africa by Josette Cole (WP13)
Working Paper 9 - Social protection, citizenship and the employment relationship by Francie Lund
Working Paper 9: Social protection, citizenship and the employment relationship by Francie Lund (WP9)
Working Paper 7 - State, market and community by Ruth Hall
State, market and community : The potential and limits of participatory land reform planning in South Africa by Ruth Hall (WP7)
Working Paper 6 - Socio-economic contribution of South African fisheries by Mafaniso Hara et al.
Socio-economic contribution of South African fisheries and their current legal, policy and management frameworks by Mafaniso Hara, Martin de Wit, Doug Crookes and Terence Jayiya (WP6)
Working Paper 5 - Strategy for fisheries socio-economic research by Terence Jayiya et al.
Working Paper 5 - Strategy for fisheries socio-economic research by Terence Jayiya, Mafa Hara, Martin de Wit & Doug Crookes
Working Paper 4 - Crew members in South Africa's squid industry by Mafaniso Hara
Working Paper 4 - Crew members in South Africa's squid industry by Mafaniso Hara
Working Paper 3 - Trading on a grant by Andries du Toit and David Neves
Working Paper 3 - Trading on a grant: integrating formal and informal social protection in post-Apartheid migrant networks by Andries du Toit and David Neves
Working Paper 2 - Informal social protection in post-Apartheid migrant networks by Andries du Toit and David Neves
Working Paper 2 - Informal social protection in post-Apartheid migrant networks : vulnerability, social networks and reciprocal exchange in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa by Andries du Toit and David Neves
Working Paper 1 - In search of South Africa's 'second economy' by Andries du Toit and David Neves
Working Paper 1 - In search of South Africa's 'second economy' : chronic poverty, economic marginalisation and adverse incorporation in Mt Frere and Khayelitsha by Andries du Toit and David Neves
Bottom-up Engagement in Policy-Making Affecting Rural Areas: The State of Rural Civil Society