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Ruth Hall
@RuthHallPLAAS
land, food, agriculture, and all things political in South Africa... and anywhere else
Apr 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Our colleague Dr Farai Mtero will be doing this interview - catch him now! On Radio567 @CapeTalk on #landreform and @MYANC Dr Mtero says that land donations is one way land can be made available for redistribution - but this can only complement state efforts and cannot substitute for them.
Mar 17, 2022 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
WEBINAR: Chinese investments in African agriculture

Starting in a moment. Do join!

Several fabulous speakers including @PLAASuwc postdoc Dr George Mudimu @toveratm

@Peasant_Journal @D_Brautigam
plaas.org.za/webinar-chines… @PLAASuwc @toveratm @Peasant_Journal @D_Brautigam You can still get the link to watch live here: uwc.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Feb 4, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Article 1 by @esulle46 .

Land Grabbing and Agricultural Commercialization Duality: Insights from Tanzania’s Transformation Agenda.

Afriche e Orienti (Italian Journal on African and Middle Eastern Studies), 17 (3): 109-128. Permanent link: aiepeditore.com/portfolio-arti… “Farmers and pastoralists at the grassroots level are keen to see an increase in investments in the agricultural sector, but they are not willing to give up their land to investors”.

This article addresses diverse responses to and local politics of contested commercialisation.
Sep 6, 2021 • 91 tweets • 73 min read
#LandGovernance: Today is DAY 1 of the Political Economy of Land Governance in Africa short course.

The class of 2021 comprises 88 land professionals from 29 African countries.

Thread 👇

Read more: bit.ly/2V5iLZB
@NELGA_AU @PLAASuwc @UWConline @ECA_OFFICIAL @giz_gmbh Colonial conceptions of customary tenure continue to inform conceptions of the customary today. The "customary" is not fixed from some time immemorial; it has been reshaped for ideological & political purposes.

Prof. Kojo Amanor, African Studies, Ghana
@UnivofGh @IASUG Image
Apr 28, 2021 • 12 tweets • 8 min read
FREE ACCESS to articles on #COVID19 pandemic & post-pandemic futures in @Peasant_Journal - for the next few days only. Here's the list. Please share!

Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-COVID-19 agriculture, by Miguel Altieri & Clara Nicholls
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… From biomedical to politico-economic crisis: the food system in times of Covid-19, by Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
- free to access for the next few days only @Peasant_Journal
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Feb 11, 2021 • 20 tweets • 11 min read
What can we learn from India's farmer protests?

@PLAAS webinar starting now. Click below to watch (now or later) and follow #FarmersProtests

j.mp/3jvxMeX Most Indian farmers have less than 2 hectares! And depend on state-guaranteed prices for wheat & rice. This has been the foundation for smallholder agriculture for decades. It's this system which is under threat from new agricultural laws.

Siddharth Joshi, PhD #FarmersProtests
Nov 18, 2020 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
At the JPS Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies:

How to build momentum in our field of critical agrarian studies? Martha Peediyakkan (India) says this process overcomes the isolation of agrarian scholars in general academic departments. #JPSwriteshop @Peasant_Journal We are wrapping up the writeshop - originally designed as a one-week process to take place in Beijing, we converted it into 5 weeks online, spread over 4 months. Worked brilliantly! 62 PhD candidates from about 40 countries. #JPSwriteshop @Peasant_Journal @PLAASuwc
Nov 12, 2020 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Webinar: The land of opportunity?

We will share the map we created to show *which* land government is offering for redistribution. #landreform

It's clear: mostly marginal state farms already occupied by black farmers

Starts 1pm today - or watch after

This is land acquired by the SADT (South African Development Trust) mostly in 1970s for homeland consolidation - ie. adjacent - but never incorporated. ​So they are only outside the 'homelands' in the sense that they are registered as 'farms' on the cadastral system. #landreform
Oct 16, 2020 • 25 tweets • 24 min read
WORLD FOOD DAY
Friday 16 October 2020

"Food is our right: the struggle for equitable food systems"

Register here or follow the link to watch on Facebook
#WorldFoodDay #WFD2020 #AfricanFoodSystems #RightToFood @CovidCoalition @PLAASuwc @FoodSecurity_za
plaas.org.za/world-food-day… Here's the programme for today's WorldFoodDay social dialogue on the #RightToFood and equitable #foodsystems with @FIANista @NETRIGHT @EsaffHQ @MasifundiseDT @abahlali_abm @FoodSecurity_za @boamonjane @afs_asa
Oct 11, 2020 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
Media briefing underway now on Interministerial Committee on Land Reform. Minister @ThokoDidiza speaking now about land expropriation #landreform twitter.com/GovernmentZA Minister @PatriciaDeLille announces that the revised Expropriation Bill was submitted to Parliament on Friday. The State Law Advisor has certified it as constitutional. It is now gazetted. Parliament will now scrutinise the Bill #landreform
Oct 1, 2020 • 23 tweets • 10 min read
How have African governments' responses to Covid-19 impacted on food systems? And how have women in the informal economy - as fishers, farmers & traders - been affected?

Today we start a new project to investigate....

#Africanfoodsystems

plaas.org.za/african-food-s… Watch our launch webinar here:

Webinar: Women, Covid-19 and food systems in Africa

1. How have African governments’ responses to Covid-19 affected different food systems?
2. How has this affected women in informal markets?
3. How are women responding?

Sep 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Webinar: Women, Covid-19 & food systems in Africa
Thurs 1 Oct 13:00–14:00

How have African governments’ Covid-19 responses affected food systems?

How has this affected women in informal markets – as farmers, fishers, traders?

How are they responding?

plaas.org.za/plaas-webinar-… We're launching new research on the impacts of Covid-19 on food systems in Tanzania, Ghana and South Africa - countries with diverse food systems and politics. Join us for this exciting conversation! @LandNnes @EsaffHQ @MasifundiseDT @NETRIGHT @IDRC_CRDI plaas.org.za/african-food-s…
Sep 23, 2020 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Book launch:
The Lie of 1652: A Decolonial History of Land

by Patric Tauriq Mellet

Launch here 👇🏽 nb.co.za/en/events/1221… To think about restorative justice, we first need restorative memory..... Patric says he's deconstructing the dominant historiography of South Africa's colonisation. He does this be taking the history of land in 5 'slices'......
Sep 15, 2020 • 21 tweets • 13 min read
Webinar: Equitable access to land

Finally, a court said to government: no, you can't sell off public land when it could be used for affordable housing. Join activists & allies to map the way forward.
Thur 17th 13.00
#Land4PeopleNot4Profit #EquitableAccess plaas.org.za/plaas-webinar-… @MandiShandu says the Tafelberg judgment in case taken by @ReclaimCT shows that spatial inequality has to be disrupted, and the state - city, province & national - all have constitutional responsibilities to use public land to foster redress & equity.✊🏽 #Land4PeopleNot4Profit Image
Sep 14, 2020 • 14 tweets • 9 min read
Today our #JPSWriteshop hosts editors of 3 leading journals. First up, @parisyeros introduces the @Agrarian_South as a network as well as journal, with Sam Moyo, launched in 2012, and joint research on reclaiming the land & nation in Africa, Asia & Latin America. @Peasant_Journal @Agrarian_South builds on the internationalist solidarity built during liberation struggles, the Bandung movement, is inter-disciplinary & grounded in political economy. Publishes in English but accepts in French, Spanish & Portuguese & translates. #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal
Sep 4, 2020 • 25 tweets • 19 min read
#ArchieMafeje memorial lecture, LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA Lessons from other parts of the continent

4 September 2020 | 10:00 am to 12pm (CAT/SAST) | Online Seminar Zoom link: zoom.us/j/99768946836?… Prof. Archie Mafeje (1936-2007) was a leading anthropologist and political economist whose ideas and work on African land and agrarian questions remain profoundly relevant today. An impressive panel discussing him @ #ArchieMafeje memorial.
Sep 3, 2020 • 20 tweets • 14 min read
Webinar: Land activism in South Africa: the state of urban and rural struggles

Follow on #LandActivism and comment and ask questions as our speakers Mercia Andrews of @Land4Food & Inyanda Land Movement, @Thembachauk of Landless People's Movement & @LandNnes and @AyandaKota of Unemployed People's Movement. @CovidCoalition @RuralDemocracy @PLAASuwc @ReclaimCT
Aug 26, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
"A good academic is prim, respectful and clinical.

A good activist is irreverent, subversive and passionate."

How do scholar-activists navigate these contradictions?

Fantastic session ion with Prof Jun Borras at #JPSWriteshop - follow this to see outcome of today's event! "Scholar activists should stop regarding themselves as martyrs. We are activists because of the joy political work gives us, because even when we fail, working to make society kinder, fairer, more just, gives a satisfaction like no other...." 1/2 #JPSWriteshop
Aug 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
@PLAASuwc researcher Refiloe Joala @phfiphfi says there's a "silver lining" to #COVID19 in Africa's #FoodSyste: Shoprite across various African countries has had to seek local suppliers due to border closures. Rather than importing SA foods, turned to supporting local producers. Image More generally, it will be important to get governments across the region to engage with food producers, traders & consumers (ie. all of us) about how #COVID19 is changing our #FoodSystem. Exporting SA's food supply chains is not going to be the answer for #foodsecurity in #SADC.
Aug 22, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
"Normal hunger" in SA is 25% of people go hungry. Recent #COVID19 survey shows this reached 47% in April, now over 50%. This is a crisis. Every waking moment everyone must focus on how there is hunger & starvation in a "food secure" country. Fix the #FoodSystem! #foodsecurity Image 1. Proposals that seem to be emerging from Minister @ThokoDidiza @Laurel_Oettle @Stephengreenb18 so far include: focus on urban agriculture, support informal food trade, identify & promote small-scale agroprocessing in niches (bread baking, maize milling) @FoodSystem #COVID19
Aug 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Dr Zamchiya says there's a narrative sponsored by the @ZANUPF_Official government & its defenders that it's a radical post-colonial redistributive project. In this view, there is no crisis. There's another narrative that there's a crackdown. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter @PLAASuwc The situation in Zimbabwe is deeply polarised. The two sides focus on the economy and human rights, respectively. I'm looking forward to hearing how public intellectual Brian Raftopoulous can help us make sense of this. #ZimbabweanLivesMatter Watch: plaas.org.za/plaas-webinar-…