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PLAAS PUBLIC LECTURE – Obstacles to women’s land rights and ways forward: Insights from India and beyond

Tuesday, 13 June 2023, 13h00 - 14h30 CAT Please join us for a public lecture by Professor Bina Agarwal from the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester in the United Kingdom who will be talking about ‘Obstacles to women’s land rights and ways forward: Insights from India and beyond’. Abstract Globally, for many decades (sometimes even a century) rural women…
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June 1, 2023
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PLAAS Concludes Pan-African Online Course on the Political Economy of Land Governance

CAPE TOWN, 05 May 2023. The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) last week concluded another pan-African programme on the political economy of land governance, with 71 participants from 21 countries.   This short course is hosted by PLAAS at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in collaboration with the African Land Policy Centre (ALPC), and is an…
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May 8, 2023
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PLAAS ACADEMIC SEMINAR – Algorithmic Plant Justice: Vegetal Beings, Gendered Relations, and the Governing of Precision Agriculture

Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 13h00 - 14h00 Please join us for an academic seminar by Associate Professor Laura Foster from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA who will be talking about ‘Algorithmic Plant Justice: Vegetal Beings, Gendered Relations, and the Governing of Precision Agriculture’. Abstract Precision agriculture or smart farming refers to the use of automated decision-making systems devoted to improving the…
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May 4, 2023
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PLAAS Academic Seminar – The Violence of Conservation in Africa: seeking non-violent alternatives

The presentation based on a recent book, The Violence of Conservation in Africa with Maano Ramutsindela and Tafadzwa Mushonga (2022), will focus on African states and their behaviours towards African people in conservation spaces within the global environmental agendas of powerful states and conservation organizations. It critiques conservation as an ideology referencing African landscapes without people leading to conservation violence…
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April 21, 2023
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PLAAS hosts a Regional Policy Dialogue on the Formalisation of Customary Land Rights and Implications for Women’s Land Tenure Security and Livelihoods in Southern Africa

JOHANNESBURG, 29 March 2023. The Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) hosted the Southern African Regional Land Policy Dialogue to disseminate the findings of its multi-country research project on the privatisation of customary land and implications for women’s land tenure security and livelihoods.  The event in Johannesburg, South Africa, was attended by members of parliament, government officials, traditional…
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April 17, 2023
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century

10 October 2023 – 12 October 2023 College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), JPS together with the College of Humanities and Development Studies at China Agricultural University (COHD-CAU), the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) are…
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April 6, 2023
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ACADEMIC SEMINAR: Understanding South African Deagrarianisation

29 March 2023 – 13:00 - 14:00 CAT Understanding South African Deagrarianisation: Analysing Smallholders’ Voices About The Abandonment Of Field Cultivation Through A Political-Historical Lens Academic Seminar In this talk, Prof. Klara Fischer will present findings from ethnographic field work in a group of villages outside Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape where she has worked since 2008. She draws on…
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March 29, 2023
Living Landscapes-New thinking on integrating biodiversity and social justice
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Living Landscapes: New thinking on integrating biodiversity and social justice

Five-day short course | 05 - 09 June 2023 Why this course? Have you ever wondered why current conservation paradigms do not seem to be able to halt the global biodiversity extinction crisis? Or why do many conservation approaches find it so hard to do justice to people and integrate new ideas of ‘living with’ biodiversity rather than separating people…
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March 17, 2023
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WEBINAR: Cross-border labour geographies in the South African periphery

TUESDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2023 from 13:00 – 14:30 SAST/CAT PLAAS invites you to a webinar titled ‘Cross-border labour geographies in the South African periphery' Abstract The beitbridge-pondrift borderscape in South Africa boasts one of the biggest commercial agriculture estate, private nature reserves, and a diamond mine. The materiality of the sectors such as: bushveld and wildlife in the case of…
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February 21, 2023
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PLAAS Hosts a National Policy Dialogue on Women’s Land Tenure Security in South Africa

POLOKWANE, 10 February 2023. The Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) continues to disseminate findings from its research on the privatization of customary land and its implications for women’s land tenure security and livelihoods in Southern Africa.  After hosting three successful National Policy Dialogue sessions in Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe, PLAAS last week brought the conversation on customary…
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February 17, 2023