Ruth Hall Appointed Director of PLAAS

Ruth Hall, Professor at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa, has been appointed Director of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at UWC. She will hold the position for a five-year term. 

PLAAS is a leading research institute focused on policy-relevant and in-depth studies related to land rights, agrarian reform, natural resource governance, and the politics of poverty and inequality. Its work engages critically with issues such as land tenure, farm workers’ conditions, and institutions of land and resource governance.

Pending a successful review, Hall is set to be a project leader in the third funding phase of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 228 Future Rural Africa. She is designated to co-lead a project titled Digital Agrarian Futures: The political economy of the Implementation of new technologies, together with Peter Dannenberg, who is currently co-leading projects C01 Future in Chains and the Future Rural Africa Combined Farm & Household Survey.


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