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Community-based natural resource management in the Southern Africa region: an annotated bibliography and general overview of literature, 1996–2004
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-02)
This bibliography is aimed at collating information relating to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the Southern African region across different sectors and themes. It was primarily compiled to offer ...
The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
This report investigates emerging trends evident
in the limited literature available on the impact of land
restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking
about, and planning for, livelihoods.
The report has ...
Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New institutional mechanisms?
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-10)
Since the 2005 Land Summit, new approaches
to land reform have been on the agenda, yet there remains little clarity on the way forward. The main focus has been on means of accelerating
the redistribution of land through ...
Trans-boundary natural resources management in Southern Africa: Local historical and livelihood realities within the Great Limpopo Trans-frontier Conservation Area
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
The end of apartheid rule in South Africa, together with the termination of the civil war in Mozambique and the occupation of Namibia by South Africa in the early 1990s, seemed to herald profound changes in international ...
Bjatladi community restitution claim
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
This report focuses on the restitution case of the
Bjatladi Communal Property Association (CPA) and the
development and use of the land that has been restored
to it in terms of the restitution programme. It examines ...
Forecasting volatility in sub-Saharan Africa’s commodity markets
(Business Perspectives, 2007)
Using spot prices from eighteen commodities traded by most Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper evaluates the out-of-sample volatility forecasting efficiency of seven models. The models evaluated included random walk, ...
Wage trends in post-apartheid South Africa: Constructing an earnings series from household survey data
(University of Cape Town, 2007)
This paper examines South African wage earnings trends using all the available post-1994 household survey datasets. This allows us to identify and address the sources of data inconsistencies across surveys in order to ...
More than socially embedded: The distinctive character of ‘communal tenure’ regimes in South Africa and its implications for land policy
(Wiley, 2007)
This article analyzes debates over tenure reform policy in post-apartheid South Africa, with a particular focus on the controversial Communal Land Rights Act of 2004. Land tenure systems in the ...