This masterclass forms part of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa lecture series, hosted by PLAAS.

Global capital accumulation involves international trade, a flow of profits, interest, and rent from investments, and wealth owned by a country’s investors in other countries. With the increased role ...

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

PLAAS mourns the passing of beloved PhD student, Avhatakali Sithagu ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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, ...