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The impact of land property rights interventions on investment and agricultural productivity in developing countries: a systematic review
(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 ... -
Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Over the last 20 years sugar production in southern Africa has been characterised by both the geographic dispersal and the heightened concentration of (formerly) South African sugar capital. This paper argues that key ... -
The political economy of sugar in Southern Africa – introduction
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)In this introductory paper we review historic and contemporary development of sugar cane production across the southern Africa. We argue that the region’s sugar industry provides a useful lens through which to understand ... -
Corporate power in the agro-food system and the consumer food environment in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This contribution maps the South African agro-food system with a focus on corporate ownership and power, inspired by value chain work applied to the food system as a whole. Corporations tend to dominate some nodes, for ... -
Exporting contradictions: the expansion of South African agrarian capital within Africa
(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 ... -
Land and agricultural commercialisation in Meru County, Kenya: evidence from three models
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)What are the relative pros and cons of different pathways of agricultural commercialisation in Africa? This paper examines aspects of three commercial farming cases, each of which represents one of the three most dominant ... -
Social differentiation and the politics of land: Sugar cane outgrowing in Kilombero, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The privatisation of formerly state-owned sugar cane estates and mills in the late 1990s led to the reconfiguration of the ownership structure and production of the Tanzanian sugar industry. This included the decentralisation ... -
Tourism taxation, politics and territorialisation in Tanzania’s wildlife management
(Medknow Publications, 2017)Tourism activities occurring on communal lands such as Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are increasing in Tanzania. This is the result of natural resources governance reforms aimed to empower communities to manage and ... -
Youth futures and a masculine development ethos in the regional story of Uttarakhand
(SAGE Publications, 2017)Research on the Uttarakhand region, which became a new state in 2000, has focused largely on agrarian livelihoods, religious rituals, development demands, ecological politics and the role of women in regional social ... -
Elite capture and state neglect: new evidence on South Africa’s land reform
(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 ... -
Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change
(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 ... -
Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa
(Academy of Science of South Africa and AOSIS, 2017)Cape Town is a fast-growing cityscape in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa with 24 formally protected conservation areas including the World Heritage Table Mountain National Park. These sites have been protected ... -
Introduction: reconsidering the region in India: mobilities, actors and development politics
(SAGE Publications, 2017)In this introduction to a special issue on ‘Reconsidering the Region in India’, we aim to develop a synthetic and theoretically nuanced account of the multifarious ways in which the idea of region has been imbricated in ... -
Migrant workers into contract farmers: Processes of labour mobilization in colonial and contemporary Mozambique
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)During the post-liberalization period, contract farming schemes have become a recurrent feature of agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa. Contract farming is not a new phenomenon in the continent but it has gained ... -
Post-agrarian biopolitics
(Wiley, 2017)How does one make sense of the incorporation of millions of South Africa’spoor and landless black people into a political and economic order thatcannot deliver on its promises — and what are the implications?The path of ... -
Social reproduction of ‘classes of labour’ in the rural areas of South Africa: contradictions and contestations
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Marxist agrarian political economy has focused largely on the problematic of accumulation and its politics, but the dynamics of social reproduction in rural contexts remain somewhat undertheorised. These are explored through ... -
Without the blanket of the land: agrarian change and biopolitics in post–Apartheid South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)This paper connects Marxist approaches to the agrarian political economy of South Africa with post-Marshallian and Foucauldian analyses of distributional regimes and late capitalist governmentality. Looking at South Africa’s ... -
Land redistribution in South Africa: Towards decolonisation or recolonisation?
(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 ... -
Can smallholder avocado production reduce poverty and improve food security through internal markets? The case of Giheta, Burundi
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The role of agriculture in rural development is widely documented in literature. Many analysts regard agriculture, specifically smallscale agriculture, as an effective instrument for poverty reduction and food security, ... -
A slipping hold? Farm dweller precarity in South Africa’s changing agrarian economy and climate
(MDPI, 2018)The paper investigates whether farm dwellers in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of South Africa are subject to a “double exposure”: vulnerable both to the impacts of post-apartheid agrarian dynamics and to the risks of ...