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Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land use and livelihoods
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
This paper addresses how land reform can contribute to enhancing land-based livelihoods.
South African agriculture is often characterised as being divided into two types: freehold
tenure/ commercial agriculture vs. ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Joint ventures
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
Joint ventures (JVs) are an increasingly common feature of the process of land and agrarian reform in South Africa. They involve black people who currently have land rights or who are land reform beneficiaries and will be ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Municipal commonage
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
This paper compares the performance of the Municipal Commonage Programme of the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) with the objectives stated in the White Paper on South African Land Policy (DLA 1997). This paper will review ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Rural settlement
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
The primary focus of South Africa is land reform programme is the acquisition of land and tenure security. The policies and strategies attached to this programme have provided many people with land. However, access to land ...
Annual report 2002
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
The year 2002 was an extremely busy one for PLAAS staff, and saw the initiation of many new
projects and activities, some of them qualitatively different to anything undertaken before. These
included an in-depth, national ...
The Communal Land Rights Bill
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003)
Tenure legislation is urgently necessary. There are serious problem in the communal
areas in the ex-homeland provinces. These areas are characterised by severe poverty,
overcrowding and isolation from economic growth and ...
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 ...
Business development service: Addressing the gap in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Clute Institute, 2003)
A survey was conducted to evaluate utilization of business development services by small
businesses in the Western Cape. It was deduced that fairly established businesses do not seem to
need or use consultancy /training ...
District municipalities : giving effect to shared authority in local government
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2003-01)
A new feature of local government outside metropolitan areas is the establishment of 47 district municipalities in December 2000. They share legislative and administrative powers with local municipalities in their area. ...
Development of molecular tools for honeybee virus research: the South African contribution
(Academic Journals, 2003)
Increasing knowledge of the association of honeybee viruses with other honeybee parasites, primarily
the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor, and their implication in the mass mortality of honeybee
colonies has resulted ...