Ruth Hall
@RuthHallPLAAS
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land, food, agriculture, and all things political in South Africa... and anywhere else
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined August 2012
📢Hot off the press ahead of the global #LandGrabbing2024 conference next week in Bogota, Colombia "Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?" @Peasant_Journal @IanScoones @TNInstitute @via_campesina @PLAASuwc @UWConline
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📢 NEWS: New law effective today South Africa finally has a new Expropriarion Act that allows the government to take private property to redistribute it - even with little or no compensarion. Why, and how can or should this power be used? I will be on
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📢 Professor post has been advertised, to join our team at the Institute for Poverty, Land & Agrarian Studies @PLAASuwc at University of the Western Cape @UWConline in Cape Town. Deadline 10th January. Please share far & wide. See advert here:
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📢📢📢Masterclass on Mining, Extractivism, and Land Rights in Africa 📷 Thursday 5 December, 10:00-13:00 SAST 📷Register and join: This is a masterclass of the Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa @NELGA_AU convened by @PLAASuwc @UWConline
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RT @Constitution_94: INGONYAMA TRUST & ROYAL BAFOKENG These trusts need to be abolished. They serve greedy hyenas who live at expense of…
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RT @PLAASuwc: PUBLIC TALK: With China's expanding role in the global economy, some American elites have come to view China as the US's "one…
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@IPESfood @PLAASuwc @UWConline HRH Paramount Chief Stephen Drani says "we didn’t realise until the Ukraine crisis that we were so dependent on external markets". We have to look at our own internal food systems and look at African infrastructure critically. #WFD24
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RT @PLAASuwc: This #WorldFoodDay, join us for a seminal @NELGA_AU Masterclass with Prof Mamadou Göita of @IPESfood on changing food systems…
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RT @WilliamGMoseley: The open access version of my book, Decolonizing African Agriculture, is out In N America, on…
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RT @molatelomohale: @PLAASuwc @RuthHallPLAAS @SAfmRadio It is a narrative pushed by government officials... Land claimans are not opting fo…
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RT @PLAASuwc: Why are so many South Africans opting for money over land? @RuthHallPLAAS will be on @SAfmRadio tomorrow morning at 7:20 to e…
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What is "green grabbing"? I will be chatting with @lesterkk on @CapeTalk radio at 07h20 this morning about our @PLAASuwc findings from research about what happens when nature conservation trumps social justice. @UWConline
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RT @PLAASuwc: Dr Murombedzi says to mitigate some of these issues, we need more studies that demonstrate the extent to which climate impact…
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RT @PLAASuwc: The "market" is increasingly represented as the solution to contemporary environmental problems and the challenges of "sustai…
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