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Ruth Hall @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social · 5d

What's driving land grabbing in the world today?

Our hot-off-the-press open access paper shows land grabbing is now shaped by:
1. geopolitics
2. financialization
3. climate policies

We set out why it matters, how people respond, and what's to be done @plaasuwc.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social

The ‘return’ of land grabbing?

This introductory paper to the Special Forum on ‘The Return of Land Grabbing’ examines the evolving dynamics of land grabbing. We argue that land grabbing never disappeared but has persisted and tr...

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Ruth Hall @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social · 7d

What would a global agenda for land redistribution and just access to natural resources contain? Follow #PLAAS30 from 7-9 Oct, when we will start to plot this chart at the Land, Life and Society Conference at @uwconline.bsky.social @plaasuwc.bsky.social plaas.org.za/land-life-an...

Land, Life and Society Conference 2025 | Plaas

Land, Life and Society International conference on the road to ICARRD+20 Urgent attention is needed to the challenges of land and agrarian reform in the contemporary world. Today, intersecting crises,...

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Ruth Hall @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social · Mar 5

Can the Expropriation Act be used to achieve land justice in South Africa?

Join us & Tshisimani at @uwconline.bsky.social for a lunchtime public dialogue with Land Reform & Rural Development Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso.

11th March at 12.00
Jakes Gerwel Hall, UWC
#expropriationforlandjusticeUWC

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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies @plaasuwc.bsky.social · Jan 27

🗓️ TOMORROW: Join us for this important discussion as we contextualise Stilfontein and Marikana, and what both these tragedies mean for the upcoming Mining Indaba. #Stilfontein #2025MiningIndaba

Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies @plaasuwc.bsky.social · Jan 24

🗓️ Tuesday, 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00 SAST
Join us for a webinar panel discussion as we situate the upcoming Mining Indaba, Stilfontein, and Marikana within the broader contexts of marginalised rural livelihoods and the legitimacy of the post-apartheid state.
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WEBINAR: Future-proofing African mining? Marginalised rural livelihoods, state legitimacy, and the 2025 Mining Indaba in the aftermath of Stilfontein | Plaas

Image courtesy of Ihsaan Haffejee and GroundUp. Date and time: Tuesday, 28 January at 13:00 – 14:00 Venue: Online Register: Zoom From 3-6 February, mining industry professionals, investors, policymake...

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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies @plaasuwc.bsky.social · Jan 23

For our first BlueSky post, it is appropriate that we begin with South Africa's newly signed Expropriation Act. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has today signed into law the Expropriation Bill, which repeals the pre-democratic Expropriation Act of 1975. However...
#ExpropriationBill

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Ruth Hall @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social · Dec 29

*Professor post* has been advertised, to join our team at the Institute for Poverty, Land & Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.

Deadline in 2 weeks. Please share far & wide. See advert here: uwc.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posti...

UWC Talent Management - Professor/Associate Professor: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) - with a 5-year term as Director - (1898)

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