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

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...

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

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...