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Call for Applications: NELGA course on the Political Economy of Land Governance in Africa (12 – 16 August 2019 I Accra, Ghana)

Across Africa, the majority of both rural and urban residents have insecure tenure rights, either in law or in practice. They face the legacy of land dispossession, colonial legal codes, contested customary tenure systems, and growing pressure on land in the face of commercial investments. How can land rights and land governance in Africa be strengthened? To address these challenges…
Andries
May 24, 2019
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JPS Summer 2019 Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism at China Agricultural University

The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), and Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) are jointly organizing a new initiative: JPS Annual Summer Writeshop-Workshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism for PhD students and young researchers (up to 5 years from PhD completion) who are based in or are originally from…
Andries
May 13, 2019
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Young Agriculture Researchers in Africa (YARA) workshop: 13-17 May

From 13 - 17 May, African agricultural researchers from all over the continent will be converging on UWC for a theory and methodology workshop convened by PLAAS.  They are all members of Young African Researchers in Agriculture (YARA), a peer network developed to support t and promote young scholars on the continent in order to secure the future of research,…
Andries
May 10, 2019
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Special PLAAS Seminar: What is the Character of the Agrarian Question in contemporary Africa? Tuesday 14 May.

Land and agriculture remain critically important sources of livelihood across Africa, even as rates of  urbanization begin to increase. Yet rural poverty continues to be a major feature of African societies. Can policies that secure access to land and natural resources, and promote agricultural development, contribute to a wider process of social and economic renewal? What other sectors are also…
Andries
May 10, 2019