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Current policy processes and legislative reforms
(2011)
•Land reform policy and legislation suffered under negotiated terms in the run-up to SA’s democracy
•Land & agricultural policies were initiated and continued to move in disparate directions
•Particular weaknesses resulted ...
Directions for land reform – what might another Green Paper propose? Alternative options and their ideological underpinnings
(2012)
International and SA debates: 4 broad approaches & loose coalitions
• “Modernist-conservative”/modernisation: support the existing structure of agriculture (capital intensive farming in large units) but deracialise LSCF ...
Beyond the 'problem' narrative: Towards an agenda for improved policy and practice in land reform
(2013)
The ‘problem’ narrative
•Land reform is too slow: it must be speeded up and better ways found of acquiring land at reasonable cost
•Land reform beneficiaries are not productive enough: they must be ‘disciplined’ or land ...
Livelihoods after land reform: Namibia country report (2010) Section B
(Land, Environment and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre, 2010)
The first AALS farmers in Hardap obtained their land in 1992, and the most recent in 2003. In Omaheke, the first AALS farmer obtained his farm in 1992 and the most recent, a woman, in 2000. Thus in both regions the oldest ...
Comments on the green paper on land reform 2011
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
This document is a joint submission by researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies in response to the Green Paper on Land Reform released by the Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform on 30 ...
Real acts, imagined landscapes
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
Why do we want land and agrarian reform? Why should its policies be supported? Much can be said about its stated purposes and goals, but why do those goals matter — and to whom? If, as James Ferguson remarked earlier in ...
Submission to the Constitutional Review Committee
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2018)
A synthesis of evidence from four local municipality studies: Sakhisizwe Local Municipality – Eastern Cape, Nkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality – KwaZulu-Natal, Greater Tzaneen Local Municipality – Limpopo, Matzikama Local Municipality – Western Cape
(2020-03-31)
This paper sets out to provide an accessible summary of the key findings which have emerged from the extensive research conducted as part of a project to develop a draft policy framework for employment intensive land reform. ...
Matzikama Local Municipality, Western Cape
(GTAC, 2020-03-31)
This study is part of the CBPEP/GTAC Project: Employment Intensive Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities which aims to develop a set of options for rural land reform in South Africa aimed at ...
Livestock production
(GTAC, 2020-03-31)
This paper is a thematic study for livestock production by smallholders and small-scale black commercial farmers in South Africa. Its aim is to identify the potential for successful expansion of the number of such farmers ...