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Elite land grabbing in Namibian communal areas and its impact on subsistence farmers’ livelihoods

Odendaal, Willem (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This brief examines some emerging trends and dynamics in changing power relations in rural Namibian communities due to emerging new elites and the threats to subsistence farmers’ access to communal land and ...
A fresh start for rural development and agrarian reform?

Hall, Ruth (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009-07-29)

The new cabinet ushered in after the 2009 national elections features new and renamed ministries. Those expected to take the lead in a new initiative to resuscitate the rural economy are the Ministry of Rural Development ...
Gender implications of decentralised land reform: The case of Zimbabwe

Manjengwa, Jeanette; Mazhawidza, Phides (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009-12)

A bolder policy approach and more vigorous implementation are needed to support women’s empowerment, transfer of land rights to women, and to ensure their productive utilisation of land. The land reform programme focussed ...
Groenfontein–Ramohlakane community restitution claim

Tilley, Susan; Nkazane, Ntombizabantu; Lahiff, Edward (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This report examines the efforts of the Groenfontein-Ramohlakane Trust to develop and use the land in (Mpumalanga) that has been restored to the community in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 ...
Imithetho yomhlaba yaseMsinga: The living law of land in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal

Cousins, Ben (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This report describes the ‘living law’ of land in one part of Msinga, a deep rural area of KwaZulu-Natal. It presents research findings from the Mchunu and Mthembu tribal areas, where a three-year action-research project ...
The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods

Hall, Ruth (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This report investigates emerging trends evident in the limited literature available on the impact of land restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking about, and planning for, livelihoods. The report has ...
An institutional approach for developing South African inland freshwater fisheries for improved food security and rural livelihoods

Hara, Mafaniso; Backeberg, Gerhard (Water Research Commission, 2014)

South Africa has over 4 700 storage dams, about 700 of which are owned and controlled by Government. Public dams were primarily constructed for domestic, irrigation and industrial water supply. Over time secondary uses for ...
International comparative study of strategies for settlement support provision to land reform beneficiaries

Tilley, Susan (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)

This paper provides some insights into international experience and attempts to distil the key areas of strategic value for consideration in developing a national strategy for support provision to land reform beneficiaries ...
Joint ventures and livelihoods in emerging small-scale irrigation schemes in Greater Sekhukhune District : Perspectives from Hereford

Tapela, Barbara (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2005-09)

This report is based on research carried out between June 2003 and April 2005 in the Greater Sekhukhune Cross-Border District Municipality, which straddles the boundaries of the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. This ...
Livelihoods and sharing: Trends in a Lesotho village, 1976–2004

Turner, Stephen (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape & Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc. (CARE), 2005-10)

The study compares the livelihoods and inter-household sharing mechanisms in a Lesotho village across a 28 year period. The report examines the complex socio-economic structures and systems that are in place in the rural ...
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. ...
Mainstreaming of HIV and Aids into South African fisheries policy

Isaacs, Moenieba; Hara, Mafaniso (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2008-11)

This research investigated the drivers and the impact of HIV and Aids in fishing communities in South Africa, in order to assist the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism: Marine and Coastal Management ...
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy

Neves, David; du Toit, Andries (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South Africa’s economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal ...
Nasruddin's key: poverty measurement and the government of marginal populations

du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape., 2011)

This paper considers the role of ‘measurement’ and other forms of poverty knowledge in a context where the nature and direction of global economic growth is creating ‘surplus populations’ suffering various forms of ...
Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New institutional mechanisms?

Cliffe, Lionel (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-10)

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 through ...
Reshaping women’s land rights on communal rangeland

Kleinbooi, Karin (National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC) (Pty) Ltd, 2013)

This paper aims to contribute to the debates on communal rangelands and analyses the gendered dimension of land rights and land access in the rural areas of Namaqualand. The actual gender relations within rural communities ...
Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo

Manenzhe, Tshililo; Lahiff, Edward (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
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 ...
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, accumulation and class differentiation: small-scale sugarcane growers in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Dubb, Alex (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2012)

This paper argues that the rise and decline of small-scale sugarcane grower (SSG) production in KwaZulu-Natal must be historically located within a changing structural relationship with miller-processors, in turn conditioned ...

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