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 ...

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

South Africa is ranked sixth in the world for its rich marine and terrestrial biodiversity. But this global accolade is characterised by deep inequalities, social and spatial injustices, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...