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At the crossroads: Land and agrarian reform in South Africa into the 21st century
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), and National Land Committee (NLC), 2000)
These conference proceedings are published at a time of extraordinary fluidity and uncertainty as to the future of the ambitious programmes of land and agrarian reform1 initiated by the first democratic government in 1994. ...
Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New Institutional Mechanisms?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
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 ...
Thematic study: The strengths and weaknesses of systems of land tenure and land administration in South Africa and the implications for employment intensive land reform
(GTAC, 2020)
The CBPEP/GTAC Project: Employment intensive land reform in South Africa: policies, programmes and capacities aims to formulate a set of options for rural land reform in South Africa aimed at generating a large number of ...
Thematic study: Agricultural value chains in South Africa and the implications for employment-intensive land reform
(GTAC, 2020)
This paper is part of a larger research initiative intended to formulate policy options for land reform in South Africa and facilitate employment and livelihoods through small-scale agriculture. The report examines small-scale ...
Tribal land administration in Botswana
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
Decentralising the administration of
communally-owned land to a local
system in Botswana was a sound
objective and could be pursued
elsewhere in the region. Yet, despite
Botswana having grappled relatively
successfully ...
Gender implications of decentralised land reform: The case of Zimbabwe
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
A bolder policy approach and more
vigorous implementation are needed
to support women’s empowerment,
transfer of land rights to women, and
to ensure their productive utilisation
of land. The land reform programme
focussed ...
State, market and community: The potential and limits of participatory land reform planning in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2008-10)
Market-assisted land reform, as promoted by the World Bank, has made little progress in South Africa: since the advent of democracy in 1994, just 4 per cent of white-owned agricultural land has been redistributed to black ...
Business models in land reform
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
This paper reviews the types of business models, or landuse
models, being implemented in land reform projects
involving the transfer of rural land to communities and
other groups in South Africa, under both the restitution ...
The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
This thematic paper 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 ...
Many land reform projects improve beneficiary livelihoods
(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.