Dr PGM (Paul) Hebinck

Associate Professor Emeritus

Sociology of Development and Change (SDC)

Paul Hebinck (PhD) is a rural sociologist with experience in exploring issues related to land, land and agrarian reform, agriculture, rural development, rural livelihoods. He specifically has an interest in investigating processes of re-agrarianisation and re-peasantisation. He carried out longitudinal fieldwork for over 30 years in Luoland, West Kenya; Eastern Cape, South Africa; North East Zimbabwe; and Northern Namibia. Paul Hebinck is also affiliated as Senior Research Associate to the Department of Environmental Sciences, Rhodes University, Makhandla, South Africa. 

He has published in various peer reviewed journals. The website localseedsinafrica.org keeps track of his thought provoking work in Luoland about the importance of landraces of maize for livelihoods and food sovereignty.