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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)

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Abstract:	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 natural resources.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10566/601

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PB 33.pdf (263.8Kb)

A fresh start for rural development and agrarian reform?

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

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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 and Land Reform and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. While the newfound priority placed on rural development is welcome, its separation from the dynamic subsectors in the rural economy is not. This brief shows how existing policies are bifurcated between BEE models for the better off and welfare for the poor. There is now a danger that the two ministries will replicate the dualism of the so-called ‘first’ and ‘second’ economies – an approach that deepens exclusion from and legitimises exploitation in the economic core, and prevents the creation of a ‘missing middle’ of successful small producers. What is needed instead is rural development that restructures the commercial sectors of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and the exploitative class relations (with workers and small producers) on which they are based, and which breaks down the concentration of capital and market power in few hands. Only then can redistributing land, forests and fishing quotas create new pathways for ‘the rural poor’ to participate, and produce, in these sectors in ways that create livelihoods and jobs, and set South Africa on a different and more appropriate growth path.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10566/69

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Gender implications of decentralised land reform: The case of Zimbabwe

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

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Abstract:	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 on racial imbalances of highly skewed land holdings and discriminatory land tenure systems while failing to mainstream the interests of women.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10566/87

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Manjengwa_Gender2009.pdf (348.8Kb)

Mainstreaming of HIV and Aids into South African fisheries policy

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

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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 (DEAT:MCM) with mainstreaming of HIV and Aids into policy on fisheries. The research was based on in-depth analysis of four fishing communities in the Northern Cape, Western Cape and Eastern Cape.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10566/67

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Isaacs_Mainstreaming2008.pdf (319.2Kb)

Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New institutional mechanisms?

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

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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 new modes of acquiring land. Acquisition is an important matter but if treated in isolation risks mis-specifying the core problems evident in land reform in South Africa. A new phase of land reform located within a wider agrarian reform is needed and will require new institutional arrangements. Any alternative strategy will have to revise the institutional mechanisms that have been handling land reform thus far. Are the procedures and the institutions that are in place to design and implement land reform adequate and appropriate to the kind of new tasks envisaged? What new farming units and activities are intended, and what post-transfer support will be required to make this agricultural system productive? This paper explores mechanisms appropriate to one kind of agricultural alternative: a vision of a productive, small-scale essentially household farm sector.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10566/66

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Cliffe_Policy2007.pdf (365.8Kb)

Tribal land administration in Botswana

White, Richard (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

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Abstract:	Decentralising the administration of communally-owned land to a local system in Botswana was a sound objective and could be pursued elsewhere in the region. Yet, despite Botswana having grappled relatively successfully with many of the land challenges, evidence suggests that tribal land administration is not free of problems.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10566/88

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White_Tribal2009.pdf (283.5Kb)

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