Browsing Research Articles by Author "Cousins, Ben"
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Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa
Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben (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 ... -
Introduction: Agrarian change, rural poverty and land reform in South Africa since 1994
Bernstein, Henry; Cousins, Ben; Peters, Pauline E.; O'Laughlin, Bridget (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 ... -
Livelihoods after land reform in South Africa
Aliber, Michael; Cousins, Ben (Wiley, 2013)Over the past few decades, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa have pursued redistributive land reform as a means to address rural poverty. The Livelihoods after Land Reform (LaLR) study was carried out between 2007 and ... -
Livestock and the rangeland commons in South Africa’s land and agrarian reform
Hall, Ruth; Cousins, Ben (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Taylor & Francis, 2013)Land and agrarian reform has the potential to expand South Africa’s rangeland commons and enhance their contribution to the livelihoods of the rural poor, yet to a large extent this has been an opportunity missed. ... -
More than socially embedded: The distinctive character of ‘communal tenure’ regimes in South Africa and its implications for land policy
Cousins, Ben (Wiley, 2007)This article analyzes debates over tenure reform policy in post-apartheid South Africa, with a particular focus on the controversial Communal Land Rights Act of 2004. Land tenure systems in the ... -
“Reproducing the social”: Contradictory interconnections between land, cattle production and household relations in the Besters Land Reform Project, South Africa
Hornby, Donna; Cousins, Ben (Routledge, 2019)Land redistribution policy in South Africa emphasises commercial farming as the legitimate use of land. This production-oriented framework fails to take into account the intertwined but unstable relationship between the ... -
Smallholder Aagriculture and land reform in South Africa
Lahiff, Edward; Cousins, Ben (Institute of Development Studies, 2005)How canland reformcontribute toa revitalisationof smallholder agriculture inSouthernAfrica?Thisquestion remains important despitenegativeperceptions of land reformas a result of the impactofZimbabwe’s “fast-track” resettlement ... -
Smallholder irrigation schemes, agrarian reform and ‘accumulation from above and from below’ in South Africa
Cousins, Ben (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 ... -
Social reproduction of ‘classes of labour’ in the rural areas of South Africa: contradictions and contestations
Cousins, Ben; Dubb, Alex; Hornby, Donna; Mtero, Farai (Taylor & Francis, 2018)Marxist agrarian political economy has focused largely on the problematic of accumulation and its politics, but the dynamics of social reproduction in rural contexts remain somewhat undertheorised. These are explored through ... -
Women's land rights and social change in rural South Africa: the case of Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal
Cousins, Ben (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 ...