【农村•社会•发展】系列讲座第八讲

　　南非土地改革：一个务实的议案

　　Agrarian reform in South Africa: a pragmatic proposal

　　 

　　

　　本•卡曾斯

　　南非西开普大学资深教授

　　行政管理学院贫困、土地与农政研究所前主任

　　Ben Cousins

　　Senior Professor at University of the Western Cape, South Africa

　　(the former Director of  PLAAS, School of  Government)

　　 

　　讲座时间：2016年11月21日（星期一）16：00-18：00

　　讲座地点：北绣山活动中心北报告厅，陕西•杨凌，西北农林科技大学北校区，712100

　　讲座语言：英文（PPT为中英对照）

　　联系人：李睿，18829352158，angela12321@163.com

　　 

　　Date:  November 21, 2016, 16:00-18:00 (Monday)

　　Venue: North Auditorium of Xiushan Activity Center, North Campus of  Northwest  A&F  University,        Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100

　　Language: English (with bilingual slides)

　　Contact: Rui Li, 18829352158, angela12321@163.com

　　 

　　讲座学者简介：

　　本•卡曾斯1949年出生于南非约翰内斯堡。于1997年获津巴布韦大学应用社会科学博士学位。他自1972年开始流亡海外十九年。期间曾在斯威士兰和津巴布韦从事农业培训与推广工作，对津巴布韦的公共放牧、畜牧生产以及农村阶级的形成等议题开展了大量研究。1991年结束流亡回国后，他进入西开普大学任职，教授人类学，1998年开始被委任为西开普大学发展管理方向学科带头人。他于1995年在该校创立了贫困、土地与农政研究所，担任主任至2009年。其研究兴趣主要包括：土地改革与农政变迁的政治学、农政变迁与农业粮食体制、土地所有制变革、畜牧生产与公共产权资源以及农村发展的政治经济学分析。他在这些领域发表了大量学术成果。他目前是知名国际期刊《农政变迁》、《世界发展》、《农民研究》、《土地利用政策》、《南部非洲发展》的国际顾问或审稿人。南非国家研究基金会对其“卓越的研究贡献和广泛的国际影响”曾给予极高评价，并于2009年授予其“南非科技部/国家研究基金会首席研究员”称号。

　　 

　　Short-bio of the speaker:　 

　　Prof. Cousins was born in 1949，in Johannesburg, South Africa. He gained his PhD in applied social science from the University of Zimbabwe (1997). He was in exile for 19 years (1972-1991), working in agricultural training and extension in Swaziland (1976-1983) and Zimbabwe (1983-1986), and carried out research on communal grazing, livestock production and rural class formation in Zimbabwe (1986-1991). From 1991 to 1995, he lectured in Anthropology at the University of the Western Cape and held a chair in Development Management at the University of the Western Cape from 1998 to 2009. He founded and directed the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) from its inception in 1995 until September 2009. His main research interests are the politics of land and agrarian reform, agrarian change and agro-food regimes, land tenure reform, livestock production and common property resources, and the political economy of rural development. He has published widely in both academic and non-academic formats and edited or co-edited 5 books on these topics. He is also in the international advisory board of Journal of Agrarian Change from 2008 and also a reviewer for some leading international journals such as World Development , Journal of Agrarian Change , Journal of Peasant Studies , Land Use Policy and Development Southern Africa . He is currently rated by South Africa’s National Research Foundation as a researcher ‘who enjoys considerable international recognition for the high quality and impact of his recent research outputs’, and he was awarded a DST/NRF Research Chair in 2009.