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Land and Agrarian Reform

Fieldwork
PLAAS Research Assistant, Philani Zamchiya, doing fieldwork in Limpopo. Photo: Ruth Hall, PLAAS, 2007
Photo: Ruth Hall
Linah Milau - Hereford. Photo: Barbara Tapela
Makuleke cotton crop. Photo: Barbara Tapela

 

      
      
      
      

In the Shadow of a Conflict: Impacts on Zimbabwe's Land Reform on Rural Poverty and Development in Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia

Project Researchers: Phillani Zamchiya and Ruth Hall (South Africa); Bill Derman (Noragric & University of Michigan), and Anne Hellum (Law Faculty, University of Oslo)
      
Livelihoods After Land Reform (LALR)

Livelihoods After Land Reform (LALR)

This project explores to what extent land redistribution in southern Africa is achieving poverty reduction and livelihood improvement objectives.

In southern Africa many agree that land reform is an essential component of efforts to reduce poverty and inequality, but despite important empirical studies there has to date been no systematic assessment of the poverty reduction and livelihood impacts of land reform in the region.


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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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