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    'Celebrating ten years of research, training and policy engagement on land and agrarian reform, livelihoods, community-based natural resource management, and poverty'. A ten year review report 1995-2005
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2006) PLAAS
    The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Over the last ten years we have undertaken research on land and agrarian reform, the changing composition of livelihoods and poverty dynamics in both rural and urban contexts, rural governance, community-based natural resource management, fisheries management, and linkages between land and water rights. All of our work has had a strong applied dimension, and PLAAS researchers have often engaged in policy debates and argued strongly in favour of particular objectives and ways to achieve them. Recurring themes within PLAAS research are patterns of poverty and inequality, the character and distribution of property rights, and contested power relations, all of which are central to the task of socioeconomic transformation after apartheid. These are complex aspects of social reality, and understanding their structure and the underlying causal processes at work is extremely challenging. We have striven to balance our concern for policy relevance and our commitment to social change with a strong emphasis on rigorous and theoretically well-informed scholarship. We have also developed a post-graduate teaching programme in land and agrarian studies, the only one of its kind in the region, and delivered a wide range of short training courses for government officials and NGO workers. In celebrating our 10th anniversary this year, we will be reflecting on whether or not we manage to live up to our mission, and asking what key questions and issues we should address in the decade to come.
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    Land and agrarian reform in integrated development plans (IDPs)
    (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007) Hall, Ruth; Isaacs, Moenieba; Saruchera, Munyaradzi
    This research study were conducted in late 2004 and the fi ndings presented to the Department of Provincial and Local Government (DPLG) and shared with the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) in 2005. Since then, some of its recommendations have been incorporated into new directions in land policy. At the National Land Summit in July 2005, the government acknowledged that land reform is not on track and that ‘a new trajectory’ would be needed in order not only to improve the pace of land reform but also to move away from an ad hoc approach to land reform. The policy position paper tabled at the summit by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Affairs drew directly on this PLAAS research study, endorsing its recommendations and calling for a review of the guidelines for integrated development plans (IDPs) and the piloting of new systems and procedures (MALA 2005a:90).
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    Land and agrarian reform in South Africa: A status report 2004
    (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004) Hall, Ruth
    This is the third in a series of ‘status reports’ on land and agrarian reform in South Africa published by the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS). These reports set out to assess progress, problems and emerging perspectives within the land sector. The first status report (Turner & Ibsen 2000) discussed the period from 1994 to late 2000. The second status report (Turner 2002) discussed developments in the sector from 2000 to 2002. During 2002 and 2003, PLAAS undertook a wide-ranging study to evaluate progress in each of the key policy areas of land reform. The ‘Evaluating Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa’ (ELARSA) project resulted in the publication of a series of nine reports.