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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 ...
Patterns of accumulation in South Africa’s grain-livestock complex: raising questions of agrarian structure
(2017)
• What is the grain-livestock ‘complex’ (GLC)?:
– ‘Complex’ rests on the key linkage between maize and soya key inputs and central cost ingredients in production of feed for intensive livestock production (pigs, chickens ...
Examining livelihoods and reconsidering rural development in the former homelands of South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Persistent poverty and under-development in South Africa’s
former homeland communal areas have been little changed by
post-apartheid ‘rural development’ policy. Rural development
policy has often been characterised by ...
Corporate power in the agro-food system and the consumer food environment in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This contribution maps the South African agro-food system with a focus on corporate ownership and power, inspired by value chain work applied to the food system as a whole. Corporations tend to dominate some nodes, for ...
Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Agrarian change in South Africa over the past two decades has seen consolidation of the hegemony of large-scale commercial farming and corporate agribusiness within agro-food systems. Constrained domestic demand and growth ...
Livelihoods & social differentiation in ‘post-agrarian’ South Africa
(2017)
• Legacy: Settler colonialism & migrant labour
• Industrialization & proletarianisation
• Dichotomous agrarian landscape
• Rural poverty, esp. former homelands
• Longstanding deagrarianisation
Reconsidering rural development: Using livelihood analysis to examine rural development in the former homelands of South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)
‘Rural development’ as concept and focus of
public policy is comparatively new, having
emerged in the post-war period. Much of the
impetus for ‘rural development’ arose in the
context of newly decolonised, low-income ...
Foodways of the poor in South Africa: How poor people get food, what they eat, and how this shapes our food system
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Foodways are the set of strategies shaping what food
people choose as well as how and where they access
and consume it. Informed by culture and social
context, the foodways of the poor simultaneously
respond to and ...
Enhancing food and nutrition security in a corporate-dominated food system
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2017)
South Africa faces a ‘dual burden’ of
malnutrition, with persistent under-nutrition
coinciding with rising rates of diet-related NCDs
(e.g. diabetes, heart disease, and certain
cancers). According to a recent national ...
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 ...