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Research Areas


Our research programme aims to develop an in-depth understanding of key processes within rural social formations and of land and agrarian reform, and to provide policy-oriented recommendations.

Furthermore, we aim to foster critical yet engaged scholarship, and help build a new cadre of applied social scientists with expertise in these sectors.


      
Research Areas [1]

Natural Resources Management

The objective of this Specific Support Action (SSA) is to share existing research and experiences in the governance of natural resource commons across different ecosystem types and scales in Southern Africa: including marine and coastal zones; arid and semi-arid grasslands; savannas and forest patches; and aquatic, wetland and floodplain ecosystems.
 

 
      
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Chronic Poverty

PLAAS’s research on poverty and chronic poverty intends to inform policymaking by grounding debate in a detailed understanding of the livelihood activities and strategies of poor and vulnerable people, and the ways in which those livelihoods are embedded in the broader political economy of South Africa.

 
      
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Fishing Rights & Marine Resources


This research aims to investigate why fishing and coastal communities in South Africa continue to be poor, even after 1994.

 
      
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New Publications
Dynamics of social differentiation after land reform among former labour tenants in Besters, KwaZulu-Natal
This presentation, made at the 'New Researchers Workshop on Land and Agrarian Studies' on 27-28 October 2011 show how violence is woven into strategies of both survival and accumulation, as well as the many stories told about people in the area.
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy: Africa 82 (1) 2012: 131–49
This article examines the social dimensions of money in South Africa’s informal economy by considering the interplay of agency, culture and context.
Poverty and fisheries: Anything to learn from the Norwegian experience?
Norwegian development assistance has always been poverty oriented on paper, but with a weak understanding of strategies, entry points, interventions and the measuring of results. Norwegian input into fishing systems in developing countries have tended to use the same models applied in Norway.
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