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Cyriaque Hakizimana

Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies

Contact details: chakizimana@plaas.org.za

Cyriaque Hakizimana is a researcher and PhD candidate at the Institute for Poverty, Land, and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of Western Cape in South Africa. He obtained a master’s degree in development studies from the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and his academic training is in poverty reduction approaches. His research interest is in agricultural development within the broader field of agrarian transformation.

In recent years he has been involved in a multinational project on Land and Agricultural Commercialization in Africa (LACA) which investigated how agrarian transitions happen and how farming models articulate the relationships between land, labour and capital in commercial enterprises themselves and in the surrounding locality. He is currently leading the Southern Africa Regional Hub of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme, which aims to produce new information and insights into different pathways to agricultural commercialisation in order to assess their impacts and outcomes on rural poverty, women’s and girl’s empowerment, and food and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Cyriaque leads the Young African Researchers in Agriculture Network (YARA) which was launched in 2014 at the African Union Head Quarters in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and brings together young and early career African researchers in agriculture in Africa in order to cultivate the culture of supporting one another, sharing information, networking and collaborating for research projects; all of which contribute towards enhancing research capacity in agrarian transformation on the African continent.

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