Browsing Research Articles by Author "Hall, Ruth"

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    • Creating learning and action space in South Africa’s post-apartheid land redistribution program 

      Kepe, Thembela; Hall, Ruth (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 ...

    • Elite capture and state neglect: new evidence on South Africa’s land reform 

      Hall, Ruth; Kepe, Thembela (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      The most recent incarnation of South Africa’s land reform is a model of state purchase of farms to be provided on leasehold, rather than transferring title. This briefing presents headline findings from our field research ...

    • Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism 

      Scoones, Ian; Edelman, Marc; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; Hall, Ruth; Wolford, Wendy; White, Ben (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this is constituted in different places, one manifestation of the new moment is the rise of distinct forms of authoritarian populism. ...

    • 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 ...

    • Forum on Global Land Grabbing Part 2: The politis of evidence: methodologies for understanding the global land rush 

      Scoones, Ian; Hall, Ruth; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; White, Ben; Wolford, Wendy (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
      The most recent ‘land rush’ precipitated by the convergent ‘crises’ of fuel, feed and food in 2007–2008 has heightened the debate on the consequences of land investments, with widespread media coverage, policy commentary ...

    • Global land deals: What has been done, what has changed, and what’s next? 

      Hall, Ruth; Wendy W, Wolford; Ben, White; Scoones, Ian (The Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2024)
      In 2010, the Land Deals Politics Initiative formed to study the rising number of large-scale land deals taking place around the world. As the so-called ‘global land grab’ took shape, we organised small grant competitions ...

    • Governing global land deals: The role of the state in the rush for land 

      Wolford, Wendy; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; Hall, Ruth; Scoones, Ian; White, Ben (Wiley, 2013)
      Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as a ‘global land grab’, new land acquisitions ...

    • The impact of land property rights interventions on investment and agricultural productivity in developing countries: a systematic review 

      Lawry, Steven; Samii, Cyrus; Hall, Ruth; Leopold, Aaron; Hornby, Donna; Mtero, Farai (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      We conducted a systematic review on the effects of land tenure recognition interventions on agricultural productivity, income, investment and other relevant outcomes. We synthesise findings from 20 quantitative studies and ...

    • Intertwined histories: JPS at 50, La Via Campesina at 30 

      Hall, Ruth; Grajales, Jacobo; Jacobs, Ricardo (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      The Journal of Peasant Studies was founded 50 years ago, in 1973, amidst an oil price crisis, the end of the gold standard and the beginning of the debt crisis, an agrarian famine in Bangladesh, and what some consider the ...

    • Land redistribution in South Africa: Towards decolonisation or recolonisation? 

      Kepe, Thembela; Hall, Ruth (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
      Contrary to populist political discourses, in South Africa the ruling party’s approach to land policy is reproducing paternalistic relations that echo apartheid practices and represent the ’colonial present’. This reality ...

    • The legacies of the Natives Land Act of 1913 

      Hall, Ruth (Stellenbosch University, 2014)
      Looking back at the century since the promulgation of the Natives Land Act, it can be argued that it shaped the trajectories of most South Africans’ lives. It expelled black people from the land into crowded reserves and ...

    • Life on the land: New lives for agrarian questions 

      Shattuck, Annie; Grajales, Jacobo; Hall, Ruth (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)
      The politics of food, climate, energy, and the yet unfinished work ofending colonialism run square through questions of land. Theclassical agrarian question has taken on new forms, and a newintensity. We look at four ...

    • 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. ...

    • Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush 

      Scoones, Ian; Smalley, Rebecca; Hall, Ruth; Tsikata, Dzodzi (Elsevier, 2019)
      Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ...

    • Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush 

      Scoones, Ian; Smalley, Rebecca; Hall, Ruth (Elsevier, 2019)
      Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, naturalresource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ...

    • The next great Trek? South African commercial farmers move north 

      Hall, Ruth (Taylor and Francis Group, 2012)
      This paper analyses the shifting role of South African farmers, agribusiness andcapital elsewhere in the Southern African region and the rest of the continent. Itexplores recent trends in this expansion, and investigates ...

    • Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change 

      Hall, Ruth; Scoones, Ian; Tsikata, Dzodzi (Taylor & Francis OA, 2017)
      Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale, avoid dispossessing local people of their land, promote diversified and sustainable livelihoods, and catalyse more vibrant local ...

    • The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico 

      Scoones, Ian; Hall, Ruth; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; White, Ben; Wolford, Wendy (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
      We welcome Rulli and D’Odorico’s response to our introduction to the Journal for Peasant Studies (JPS) Forum on Global Land Grabbing(Scoones etal.2013) in which we discussed the ‘literature rush’ that has accompanied the ...

    • Revisiting unresolved questions: land, food and agriculture 

      Hall, Ruth (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2011)
      This article explores three articles from the perspective of 2011. They are Makhosazane Gcabashe and Alan Mabin’s ‘Preparing to negotiate the land question’ (Transformation 11), Tom Bennett’s ‘Human rights and the African ...

    • The rise of BRICS: implications for global agrarian transformation 

      McKay, Ben M.; Hall, Ruth; Liu, Juan (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      This article introduces this collection, which focuses on the economic and political rise of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and its implications for global agrarian transformation. ...