Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "Dubb, Alex"
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45% of black South Africans want land
Hall, Ruth; Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)A comprehensive study of the demand for land carried out in 2005/6 reveals that one third of black South Africans want access to land for food production, and another 12% want land for a variety of other reasons (Aliber ... -
Commodity Study: Small-Scale Sugar Production
Dubb, Alex (GTAC, 2020-03-31)The South African sugar industry has long been one of South Africa’s most substantial agro-industries. The South African Sugar Association (SASA) estimates that around R16bn in value is annually created by 85,000 directly ... -
The distribution of land in South Africa: An overview
Walker, Cherryl; Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013) -
Dynamics of decline in small-scale sugarcane production in South Africa: Evidence from two ‘rural’ wards in the Umfolozi region
Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014-05)Using evidence from two rural wards in the Umfolozi region, this paper critically investigates the dynamics and constraints of small-scale sugarcane production under conditions of decline. The rapid decline in small-scale ... -
Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa
Dubb, Alex (Taylor & Francis, 2017)Over the last 20 years sugar production in southern Africa has been characterised by both the geographic dispersal and the heightened concentration of (formerly) South African sugar capital. This paper argues that key ... -
Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa
Dubb, Alex (2016)Introduction to regional patterns of sugar production accumulation by way of data analysis for key (formerly ‘South African’) firm Illovo across 6 countries ‘Centrifugal’ logic throws-up a diversity of routes of ... -
Many land reform projects improve beneficiary livelihoods
Cousins, Ben; Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)Many land reform projects have improved the incomes and livelihoods of those who received land – despite inadequate government support for planning and production, and in the face of severe resource constraints. -
Not enough state land to meet land reform targets
Kleinbooi, Karin; Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)Arguments that state land should be used to meet land redistribution targets are misleading. Very little state land is suitable for this purpose. Official data from 2002 show that only 2% of the total of 12.6 million ha ... -
Patterns of accumulation in South Africa’s grain-livestock complex: raising questions of agrarian structure
Dubb, Alex (2017)• What is the grain-livestock ‘complex’ (GLC)?: – ‘Complex’ rests on the key linkage between maize and soya key inputs and central cost ingredients in production of feed for intensive livestock production (pigs, chickens ... -
The political economy of sugar in Southern Africa – introduction
Dubb, Alex; Scoones, Ian; Woodhouse, Philip (Taylor & Francis, 2017)In this introductory paper we review historic and contemporary development of sugar cane production across the southern Africa. We argue that the region’s sugar industry provides a useful lens through which to understand ... -
The rise and decline of smallscale sugarcane production in South Africa: A historical perspective
Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013-12)South Africa’s sugar industry has long been distinguished by its large number of small-scale sugarcane growers (SSGs) farming on ‘communal’ land and its peculiar, privately administered regulatory structure. In recent ... -
Social reproduction of ‘classes of labour’ in the rural areas of South Africa: contradictions and contestations
Cousins, Ben; Dubb, Alex; Hornby, Donna; Mtero, Farai (Taylor & Francis, 2018)Marxist agrarian political economy has focused largely on the problematic of accumulation and its politics, but the dynamics of social reproduction in rural contexts remain somewhat undertheorised. These are explored through ... -
Social reproduction, accumulation and class differentiation: Small-scale sugarcane growers in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012-12)This paper argues that the rise and decline of small-scale sugarcane grower (SSG) production in KwaZulu-Natal must be historically located within a changing structural relationship with miller-processors, in turn conditioned ... -
Social reproduction, accumulation and class differentiation: small-scale sugarcane growers in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Dubb, Alex (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2012)This paper argues that the rise and decline of small-scale sugarcane grower (SSG) production in KwaZulu-Natal must be historically located within a changing structural relationship with miller-processors, in turn conditioned ... -
The value components of contract farming in contemporary capitalism
Dubb, Alex (Wiley, 2018)Contract farming (CF) has generally been understood as, essentially, a market institution—by both (approving) “mainstream” and (critical) “radical” perspectives. Analyses of relations of production have, meanwhile, tended ... -
What are the real implications of reopening land claims?
Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Dubb, Alex (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act of 2014 has reopened the land claims process for another five years, extending the deadline to 2019. An impact assessment commissioned by the Department of Rural Development ...