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Community Organizations Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Acronym
PLAAS
University or Research Institution

Focal point

info@plaas.org.za

Location

PLAAS was founded in 1995 as a specialist unit in the School of Government, Economic and Management Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town. Since then, PLAAS has developed a proven track record of undertaking high-quality research on land and agrarian reform, poverty, and natural resource management in South Africa and the southern African region.


Besides research and postgraduate teaching, PLAAS undertakes training, provides advisory, facilitation and evaluation services and is active in the field of national policy development. Through these activities, and by seeking to apply the tools of critical scholarship to questions of policy and practice, we seek to develop new knowledge and fresh approaches to the transformation of society in southern Africa.



Members:

Ruth Hall

Resources

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Reconciling Living Customary Law and Democratic Decentralisation to Ensure Women’s Land Rights Security

Reports & Research
Novembro, 2010
África

Argues that decentralisation holds much potential for lively, participatory democratic lawmaking and enforcement through which rural women can gain greater power and secure more rights. Essential that all decentralisation policy be guided by constitutional principles. Explores the guiding principles necessary to safeguard democratic decentralisation.

What is a ’smallholder?

Reports & Research
Fevereiro, 2010
África

Includes ’small-holder’ farmers as potential beneficiaries of agrarian reform in South Africa, a class-analytic approach to small-scale farming, accumulation ’from above’ and ’from below’, policy implications.

Reconciling Living Customary Law and Democratic Decentralisation to Ensure Women's Land Rights Security

Policy Papers & Briefs
Janeiro, 2010
South Africa

The recent Constitutional Court judgment rendering the Communal Land Rights Act (CLARA) unconstitutional (Tongoane and Others v Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs and Others) must not be allowed to throw decentralisation policy making into disarray. Decentralisation holds much potential for lively, participatory democratic law making and enforcement, through which rural women can gain greater power and secure more rights. 

Gender Implications of Decentralised Land Reform: The Case of Zimbabwe

Reports & Research
Dezembro, 2009
Zimbabwe
África

Includes land reform: perpetuating patriarchal land policies?; Fast Track Land Reform: decentralisation or recentralisation?; women’s access to land in the land reform process; constraints faced by women in accessing land; who is pushing the agenda for better access to and utilisation of land for women?; conclusion: women beneficiaries of land reform; recommendations.