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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 ...
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 ...
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
A slipping hold? Farm dweller precarity in South Africa’s changing agrarian economy and climate
(MDPI, 2018)
The paper investigates whether farm dwellers in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of
South Africa are subject to a “double exposure”: vulnerable both to the impacts of post-apartheid
agrarian dynamics and to the risks of ...
Another countryside? Policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2009)
Land reform in South Africa is a political project that has foundered. For years, the process has been variously described as being ‘in crisis’, ‘at a crossroads’, ‘at an impasse’ or simply ’stuck’. This still seems as ...
Scoping study on the development and sustainable utilisation of inland fisheries in South Africa: Volume 2. Case studies of small-scale inland fisheries
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Small- scale fishing on inland waters is a widespread livelihood activity which has been overlooked in
environmental policy and management arrangements flowing from South Africa’s democratic Constitution.
This has ...
Scoping study on the development and sustainable utilisation of inland fisheries in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
South Africa’s inland fishery resource endowment has been overlooked as a means of supporting sustainable
livelihoods in the democratic era, lacking a guiding policy and legislation aligned with the country’s rightsbase ...
Research Report to Programme to Support Pro-Poor Policy Development in South Africa (PSPPD)
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This report documents research conducted on small-scale informal self-employment at the margins of the
South African economy. Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment South Africa has, by
developing country ...
Farm workers and farm dwellers in Limpopo, South Africa: Struggles over tenure, livelihoods and justice
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
Stories about farm workers and dwellers losing their homes, land and livelihoods are common in contemporary South Africa, and also in Limpopo Province. Around 1988, Grace M.1 and her children were evicted from a Limpopo ...
Livelihoods and sharing: Trends in a Lesotho village, 1976–2004
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
In 2004 I was fortunate enough to be able
to return to Ha Tumahole, the village
in Lesotho where I undertook research
on farming and livelihoods in 1976–77,
and spend four weeks learning about what
had changed in ...