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 ...

Marital status, urbanisation, and violence: a three-pronged threat to women’s land rights in South Africa.

Who defines what rural development is, and how can it be understood within the wider context of capitalist development, conflicts and agrarian questions? Global climate change and sustainability ...

WEBINAR: War and food – How will the Russia-Ukraine conflict affect African food systems?

PLAAS Seminar: Is nationalisation and state custodianship of land a solution?

I graduated from the Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University. My thesis focuses on gendered rural transformation in Turkey based on women peasant-workers’ working practices and ...

The snoek run is a quintessential part of life in fishing communities on the West Coast and in the Cape Town metropolitan area. This bony fish, which has a distinctive taste due to the anchovies and ...

PLAAS is an independent Policy Research Institute within the Faculty for Economic and Management Sciences at the University of the Western Cape. Our research concentrates on the role of land, ...

PODCAST Ep 13: Climate politics, carbon offsets and green minerals ...

Salma Abouelhossein is a PhD student in urban studies and planning at Harvard University. Her research interests are in urbanization and crisis, the materialities of the finance economy, ...

PLAAS is an independent Policy Research Institute within the Faculty for Economic and Management Sciences at the University of the Western Cape. Our research concentrates on the role of land, ...