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 ...

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

What is the Living Landscapes in Action project? South Africa is ranked sixth in the world for its rich marine and terrestrial biodiversity. But this global accolade is characterised by deep ...

The land summit was a fiasco. It reflected the government’s commitment to land reform.

Pretty Maluka is a Parliamentary Researcher at Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature whose work is focused on policy analysis and conducting research on government programmes related to Agriculture, ...

Briefing note on “Legal pluralism and poor implementation hold back women’s land rights in Africa: What can we do?” ...

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

It is hard to convey the acute sense of shock and loss I feel at the news of the untimely death of Taki Sithagu, whom I had the privilege of supervising as a PLAAS PhD student since 2020. Taki was one ...

Daren Leung recently completed his PhD thesis “Farming as Method: Contextualising the Politics of Food and Farming in South China” in the department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of ...

Inequality and injustice cannot be resolved within society without also confronting the destructive and exploitative relations between society and nature. This is a key argument within political ...

In this episode, we speak to Prof Issa Shivji, a leading scholar in agrarian studies and pan-Africanism about his concept of “working people” which refers to a broad range of people living on the ...