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Leaping the fissures: Bridging the gap between paper and real practice in setting up common property institutions in land reform in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
New common property institutions (CPIs) were created in South Africa soon after 1994 to enable self-constituted groups of people a choice about how they wished to acquire, hold and manage land. They were to provide rural ...
Land reform and biodiversity conservation in South Africa: Complementary or in conflict?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
This paper aims to improve understanding of the conflicts that have arisen between land reform and conservation, and to encourage better comprehension between the land and conservation sectors. It does this by analysing ...
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 ...
Land reform in South Africa: A status report 2008
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2008)
After 14 years of democracy in South Africa,
there is agreement across the political and social
spectrum that the state’s programme of land
reform is in severe difficulties. Almost since its
inception, the programme ...
Land redistribution and poverty reduction in South Africa: The livelihood impacts of smallholder agriculture under land reform
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
Since its inception in 1994, South Africa’s land
reform programme has aimed to achieve multiple
objectives, including redressing the historical
racial imbalance in landholding, alleviating poverty
and developing the ...
A critical appraisal of South Africa’s market-based land reform policy: The case of the Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) programme in Limpopo
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
In 1996 less than 1% of the population
owned and controlled over 80% of
farm land. This 1% was part of the
10.9% of the population classified as white
(Stats SA 2000). Meanwhile, the 76.7% of
the population that is ...
From ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ to a people-driven land reform
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The concept of ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ has dominated the discourse on land reform in South Africa since 1994. Now,
following the national Land Summit of July 2005, it appears that government is willing to abandon ...
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 ...
Budgeting for land reform
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
The primary purpose of land reform in South Africa is to redistribute agricultural and other land in order to address the racially
skewed pattern of landholding and promote development. Slow progress in land reform over ...
Land reform and sustainable livelihoods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
The Eastern Cape is one of the nine provinces of South Africa, located
in the south-east of the country along the Indian Ocean seaboard. The
area was a site of prolonged struggle between native peoples, principally
Xh ...