“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, ...

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

Mr. Thai Van Nguyen is currently working as a Researcher and Lecturer at the Research Center for Rural Development (RCRD) of An Giang University, Vietnam. He is also a Founder of Mekong WASH and ...

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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 ...

Multiple crisis highlight need to build local resilience in the food system ...

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 webinar will be chaired by Nkanyiso Gumede, a researcher at PLAAS. Protecting informal land rights remains a challenge in South Africa. There is continued violation of informal land rights both in ...

The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (Beijing), and Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC) are jointly organizing a ...

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, ...