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, ...

“Land governance concerns the rules, processes and structures through which decisions are made about access to land and its use, the manner in which the decisions are implemented and enforced, and the ...

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, ...

After 30 years in a democratic country, South African women, like many others around the world, are still asking for tangible change in their lives. One of the biggest sectors where we see the clear ...

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, ...

Masifundise Development Trust and Coastal Links is hosting South Africa’s first Fisher People Tribunal from 12 to 14 August 2024 at the Holy Trinity Church in Kalk Bay, Cape Town. Masifundise, a civil ...

Tracer and impact study for the short course of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA) PLAAS invites applications from suitably qualified persons to conduct a tracer and impact ...

The world should brace for a demographic and cartographic reshuffling. The current trajectory of climate change and fossil fuels may render much of the Global South uninhabitable. Heat waves, combined ...

María del Rocío Juárez Nogueira is a historical anthropologist with master´s degree in latin american studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the Postgraduate Program in ...

Juan Camilo Portela-García is a final year student of the Doctorate in Social Science Research with a major in Sociology at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, sede Mexico ...

I am a Colombian PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. In Colombia, I have undertaken fieldwork in the regions of Cauca, La Macarena and Montes de María (all ...

Francis Guedes is a Brazilian PhD student in Agroecosystems at UFSC – Brazil, who researches dairy farming in distinct productive organization forms in Cuba. In different roles in the field and in ...