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Bellville
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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.
 

 
      
Research Areas [2]


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
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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