Browsing Occasional Papers Series by Author "Lahiff, Edward"

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    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Final Report 

      Hall, Ruth; Jacobs, Peter; Lahiff, Edward (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      Land dispossession was a key feature of racism under colonial rule and apartheid in South Africa. More than 3.5 million people were forcibly removed in the period 1960 to 1983 alone, through homeland consolidation, removals ...

    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land redistribution 

      Jacobs, Peter; Lahiff, Edward; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      Land dispossession during the colonial era and the decades of apartheid rule produced a highly unequal pattern of land ownership and widespread rural poverty in South Africa. When a democratically elected government came ...

    • State, market or the worst of both? Experimenting with market-based land reform In South Africa 

      Lahiff, Edward (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)
      The concept of ‘market-based land reform’ (MBLR, also market-assisted land reform, or market-led agrarian reform) has been central to the ‘new wave’ of land reform that has been in evidence internationally since the early ...