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Can solidarity from history be reimagined for the present geopolitical moment? Join us for our colloquium on Solidarity then & Now, with a panel of experts from Africa & Norway at @uwconline.bsky.social. Bring your toughest questions, & join us for a light lunch. RSVP is necessary: shorturl.at/GS29M

📢 New blog: @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social was a respondent at the FAO's Status of Land Tenure and Governance report launch on Wednesday. Here, she lays out 7 things to consider about its findings, and 3 things we can do about it. #ICARRD20 shorturl.at/K7oJd @uwconline.bsky.social @fao.org

7 things to consider about the FAO’s Status of Land Tenure and Governance report, and 3 things we can do about it | Plaas

This opinion blog is based on input by Professor Ruth Hall at the second International Conference on Agricultural Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20). During this session, the UN’s Food and Agric...

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@peasantjournal.bsky.social has made the following articles open access as we approach #ICARRD+20: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... There are 2 more

Grassroots voices special forum: resisting land grabs and building alternatives

Contemporary land grabbing extends far beyond agriculture to encompass forests, water sources, rivers, oceans, and entire territories. Communities and movements continue to resist via food sovereig...

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Opening Ceremony of the International Conference on Land, Life and Society in Cartagena #icarrd20 Consensus of gathered speakers from around the world is clear: “agrarian reform is not a thing of the past!”

The 2nd Int'l Academic Conference Land, Life & Society at University of Cartagena, Colombia, starts with the Cape Town Declaration, written at the 1st Int'l Academic Conference: Land, Life & Society at @uwconline.bsky.social in 2025. 📃ENG, SPA, FRA & POR: shorturl.at/zoFP2 #ICARRD20

Ruth Hall@ruthhallplaas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You can follow these debates about rural futures, land, food, and climate politics at the #ICARRD20 in Colombia, starting this week: The second 'International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development'. Follow @plaasuwc.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social @peasantjournal.bsky.social

What’s at stake in an unequal world, and what could turn the tide? The International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Development (ICARRD) taking place in Colombia next week is the thing to watch. Here I explain why. #ICARRD20 @plaasuwc.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social t.co/dSYUrIRNh8

You can follow these debates about rural futures, land, food, and climate politics at the #ICARRD20 in Colombia, starting this week: The second 'International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development'. Follow @plaasuwc.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social @peasantjournal.bsky.social

Ruth Hall@ruthhallplaas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Watch this space: digital agriculture technologies in Africa, accompanied by AI infrastructure, are moving fast across the continent. Who will get the land and water they require, who will own the data, and who will benefit? The next big shift in the poltics of land in Africa is upon us.

Watch this space: digital agriculture technologies in Africa, accompanied by AI infrastructure, are moving fast across the continent. Who will get the land and water they require, who will own the data, and who will benefit? The next big shift in the poltics of land in Africa is upon us.

GRAIN@grain.org · 6mo ago

A Dubai-based consumer electronics manufacturer, Maser Group, is diving into agriculture and AI infrastructure across Africa, committing $1.6 billion to farmland development and data centres in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya over the next two years. farmlandgrab.org/33299 @ruthhallplaas.bsky.social

7 things to understand about how extraction is affecting African people's land usage, and what drives them: new PLAAS blog by Dr Phillan Zamchiya. #ICARRD20 plaas.org.za/globalised-e...

Globalised extractive territorialisation and changing land uses in Africa | Plaas

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📢 Putting land redistribution back on the agenda: As we head to #ICARRD+20, Prof @ianscoones.bsky.social reflects on experiences from very different settings to inform future policies. 🗓️ Wednesday, 11 February 2026 🕐 13:00-14:00 CAT 📍 At PLAAS or online shorturl.at/rDJ1N @uwconline.bsky.social

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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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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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

🗓️ 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 · 2y ago

🗓️ 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. plaas.org.za/webinar-futu...

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

*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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