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Livelihoods after land reform: The South African case
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012)
SA’s land reform regarded as a failure
– economic objectives – the spectre of ‘failed projects’
– changing the racial pattern of land ownership – too slow
• No consensus as to why, or what to do
• Even so, ambitious ...
Commercial farming and agribusiness in South Africa and their changing roles in Africa’s agro-food system
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Our paper is on commercial farming and agribusiness in South Africa and their changing roles in Africa’s agro-food system, as a response to debates and theoretical propositions about internal agrarian change in BRICS ...
Smallholders and agro-food value chains in South Africa: Emerging practices, emerging challenges
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
A key emerging strand in the development of smallholder
agriculture in South Africa is the effort to integrate smallholders
into corporate food retail value chains. In this, the
private sector and government have a ...
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 ...
Comments on the Green Paper on land reform 2011
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
As we have indicated in our earlier press release, the document released as a Green Paper by the
Department Ministry of Rural Development and Land Reform is a great disappointment.
The Green Paper is the product of a ...
Challenging the stereotypes: Small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This report represents one of the outputs of
a research and social dialogue project undertaken
over 18 months. It was carried out by
researchers from the Institute for Poverty,
Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), based ...
Challenging the stereotypes: small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, 2016)
This report represents one of the outputs of a research and social dialogue project undertaken over 18 months. It explores a number of private sector partnerships and projects launched in support of black farmers – some ...
Women's land rights and social change in rural South Africa: the case of Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal
(Juta Law, 2013)
Changing marriage practices and a continuing decline in marriage rates are generating tensions in rural South Africa and prompting innovations in the character of women's rights to land. Empirical evidence of changing ...
Smallholder irrigation schemes, agrarian reform and ‘accumulation from above and from below’ in South Africa
(Wiley & Blackwell Publishing, 2013)
A key issue in debates on agrarian reform in South Africa is the potential for small-scale
farming, in conjunction with redistributive land reform, to make a significant contribution to
employment creation and poverty ...
Introduction: Agrarian change, rural poverty and land reform in South Africa since 1994
(Blackwell Publishing, 2013)
This introduction sketches the context and dynamics of agrarian change, rural poverty and
land reform since the end of apartheid in 1994, drawing attention to structural continuities
and new elements in the countrysides ...