REPAiR is a new three-year research project that critically explores whether and how equitable, contextual, community-led ...

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 ...

REPAiR is a new three-year research project that critically explores whether and how equitable, contextual, community-led approaches to nature-based solutions can support adaptability and resilience ...

In a recent court ruling, presided over by Justice Mwayera at the Mutare High Court on 24 July 2020, an interdict was granted to prevent the eviction of 750 households from their homes 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, ...

Women predominate in many sectors of the informal economy; their lives, work, and struggles are often invisible to government and to the public at large. Last week, PLAAS and the Faculty of Economic ...

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in collaboration with the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering in-country/in-region ...

INVITATION: Critical Dialogues on Equitable Access to Land in South Africa ...

Colonial and post-independence state assaults to customary land tenure in Africa have disrupted the conditions of land access and accentuated dispossessions perpetrated by politico-economic elites at ...

PLAAS joins Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa as a special node ...

Social reproduction has in recent years taken its rightful place at the very centre of debates and analysis about the current interlocking crises, including COVID-19, economic inequalities and failed ...