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Creating learning and action space in South Africa’s post-apartheid land redistribution program
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
This paper uses the case of South Africa’s latest land redistribution strategy known as the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy, to explore whether, and how, research can have direct and positive impacts on beneficiaries ...
Land redistribution in South Africa: Towards decolonisation or recolonisation?
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Contrary to populist political discourses, in South Africa the ruling party’s approach to land
policy is reproducing paternalistic relations that echo apartheid practices and represent the
’colonial present’. This reality ...
Commodity study: Wool production by small-scale farmers
(GTAC, 2020-03-31)
Small-scale wool production, especially in former bantustan areas, has the potential for significant expansion and ongoing and successful farmer support should be expanded. The small proportion of sheep and wool farmers ...
Final Report
(GTAC, 2020-03-31)
This study focuses on the potential contribution of redistributive land reform to employment creation. Can land redistribution be undertaken in a manner that also creates jobs, and if so, through which types of land use ...
Fresh produce production under irrigation by small-scale farmers in South Africa
(GTAC, 2020-03-31)
This report documents the status of fresh produce production under irrigation by small-scale farmers2 in South Africa and investigates the potential for expanding current levels of production, with an emphasis on land ...
The distribution of land in South Africa: An overview
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
Evictions from farms – the role of local government
(PLAAS, 2011-06)
Recently, land reform has gained greater prominence in public debates, notably with the latest call for the nationalisation of land, which has been met with mixed responses. The call highlights why the need for nationalisation ...
Land redistribution: Part of a wider agrarian reform strategy
(PLAAS, 2012-09)
An emerging and increasingly more prominent debate amid the considerations of a new White Paper, following the Green Paper process, which will set the legal framework for land reform and agrarian transformation, is whether ...
Elite capture and state neglect: new evidence on South Africa’s land reform
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
The most recent incarnation of South Africa’s land reform is a model
of state purchase of farms to be provided on leasehold, rather than
transferring title. This briefing presents headline findings from our
field research ...
How can we promote a range of livelihood opportunities through land redistribution?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)
This position paper sketches an approach to improving land redistribution in South Africa in which the broad aim is to use redistribution to create a range of livelihood opportunities, in meaningful numbers, in proportion ...