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Access to land and rural poverty in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012-09)
The big picture: some history
• Large-scale land dispossession from 1652 into the late 20th century
• 1913 and 1936 Land Acts: African majority confined to 13% of country
• Forced removals in apartheid years: 2.5 million ...
Without the blanket of the land: Agrarian change and biopolitics in post-apartheid South Africa
(2015)
What are the responses – from above and below – to processes of jobless de-agrarianization?
What are the dynamics and the consequences of the inclusion of poor, vulnerable and unruly populations within processes of ...
Waking up from the dream: The pitfalls of 'fast-track' development on the Wild Coast
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2001)
The main aim of this study was to explore the issues involved in reconciling
the policy objectives of land reform, environmental conservation and
the private sector profit-oriented rural development initiative in ...
Status report on land and agricultural policy in South Africa, 2010
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Agriculture plays numerous roles in society. The
most obvious is to produce food (and, to a lesser
extent, fibre). While agriculture is the mainstay
of the rural economy, it also shapes social
relations and landscapes. ...
Post-agrarian biopolitics
(Wiley, 2017)
How does one make sense of the incorporation of millions of South Africa’spoor and landless black people into a political and economic order thatcannot deliver on its promises — and what are the implications?The path of ...
Revisiting unresolved questions: land, food and agriculture
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2011)
This article explores three articles from the perspective of 2011. They are Makhosazane Gcabashe and Alan Mabin’s ‘Preparing to negotiate
the land question’ (Transformation 11), Tom Bennett’s ‘Human rights and
the African ...
Equitable access to land for social justice in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021-11)
This report analyses the trajectory of land reform in South Africa and its implications for equitable access to land. The report combines insights from empirical research and inclusive dialogues to analyse the extent to ...