UWC Ndifuna Ukwazi Reclaim the City At Level Two in Khayelitsha, we're learning from Intlungu Yasematyotyombeni members Zanele and Buhle about how the area was set up. Ruth Hall leading the pack. 🏠

UWC Today, we're on a field trip to meet some of our colleagues. We began at Cissie Gool House, where we spoke to house leaders, Ndifuna Ukwazi and Reclaim the City.

We started with a discussion at UWC, showing our work in communities and its impact on people and decision makers.

We have the pleasure this week of hosting our partners from GIZ Strengthening Land Governance in Africa from around the continent. NELGA

The TANY Collective have just released a much-needed map of #landgrabs in #Madagascar , in French. Check it out (and pls contact them if you have additional info): terresmalgaches.info/newsletter/art… @CollectifTANY @LVCseaf Kenyan Peasants League Boaventura Monjane FIAN International Ruth Hall MVIWATA

Ian Scoones and Morgan Ody moderating a fascinating dialogue between participants across the globe on 'Land redistribution: Is redistributive land reform still relevant in the 21st century?' at #LandGrabbing2024 Conference!

🎙️Now out: a new episode of the Agrarian Politics Podcast

'China's 'Going Out' policy and global agrarian change'
where Boaventura Monjane and I are in conversation with Prof Yan Hairong

Relevant to geopolitics debates at #LandGrabbing2024 conference

plaas.org.za/chinas-going-o…

One of the best sessions yet: discussion (from approximately 20 country’s perspectives) of land reform: histories, trajectories, conjunctures – but not merely an academic discussion, as the debates were how to generate a new wave towards land reform globally. #LandGrabbing2024

How to Resist the Expanding Global Land Grab #LandGrabbing2024 in Bogota is a step towards strengthening alliances to fight land grabbing worldwide - commondreams.org/opinion/resist…

'The social reproduction of surplus populations in the global South is the quintessential problem of our times' #LandGrabbing2024

Sienne Molepo Clemente Ntauazi Ayanda Ruth Hall Loveness Mgalamadzi, PhD UWC And the extended PLAAS team, left to right: Sienne Molepo (MPhil student), Clemente Ntauazi (PhD student), Dr Loveness Mgalamadzi, PhDi (graduate), Dr Mnqobi Ngubane (graduate), Dr Theresa Auma (research partner, Makerere University), Ayanda (research associate), Ruth Hall

The great Marc Edelman introduces his new book at #LandGrabbing2024

Ruth Hall introduces the #ICAS book series at #LandGrabbing2024 - all #OpenAccess

Hola, Bogota!
Sienne Molepo, Clemente Ntauazi, Ayanda and Ruth Hall in Colombia on behalf of PLAAS. Not pictured is PLAAS alum Loveness Mgalamadzi, PhD UWC
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Professor Wendy Wolford is at the #LandGrabbing2024 conference in Bogota, which she co-organized, building off of long-term research on the rise of new large-scale land deals.

Watch her plenary presentation: youtube.com/watch?v=K0gbTS… (3h22) and new publication on the topic 👇

800 academics and rural social movements at #landgrabbing2024 . Academic and public pension fund manager TIAA is the worlds largest grabber with a 60k acre #greengrab in Colombia and 3 million acres globally. @stoplandgrabs

International Conference on Global Land Grabbing #LandGrabbing2024

The conference on Global Land Grabbing has begun to discuss the evolving issue of global land grabs. Is land being taken away from communities for unsustainable practices? What can be done to resist? Read Salena Tramel's blog below 👇
commondreams.org/opinion/resist…

#LandGrabbing2024

We are delighted to be present at this massive conference with panels and papers from Pastoralism & Uncertainty affiliate Rashmi Singh and Palden Tsering and excited to have a book launch of Ian Scoones 's new book on #Uncertainty and much more!

Prof Hall thanks everyone who made the fee-free conference possible, and expresses the disappointment the #LDPI feels with grantees from Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Cameroon denied transit through various European airports. #LandGrabbing2024