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The potential of agriculture and land reform to generate jobs
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Extremely high levels of unemployment contribute to poverty and inequality, and are one of South Africa’s most intractable problems. Can the agricultural sector help to address the problem? And how can land reform be ...
Livelihoods after land reform: The South African case
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012)
SA’s land reform regarded as a failure
– economic objectives – the spectre of ‘failed projects’
– changing the racial pattern of land ownership – too slow
• No consensus as to why, or what to do
• Even so, ambitious ...
Social differentiation and ‘accumulation from below’ in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal
(2014)
South Africa has a highly unequal distribution of agricultural land > hence land reform
BUT
Who should be the primary beneficiaries of redistributive land reform?
How can land redistribution address the structural ...
Commercial farming and agribusiness in South Africa and their changing roles in Africa’s agro-food system
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
Our paper is on commercial farming and agribusiness in South Africa and their changing roles in Africa’s agro-food system, as a response to debates and theoretical propositions about internal agrarian change in BRICS ...
Smallholders and agro-food value chains in South Africa: Emerging practices, emerging challenges
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
A key emerging strand in the development of smallholder
agriculture in South Africa is the effort to integrate smallholders
into corporate food retail value chains. In this, the
private sector and government have a ...
The Monster from the Green Lagoon Assessing the 2011 Green Paper on Land Reform
(2011)
Background
• Consensus across the board that LR is in deep trouble and unlikely to meet targets
• Some argue that food security is of rising concern, given rising food prices (here and globally)
• Minister Nkwinti: ...
Restitution of land rights amendment bill 2013
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013)
1.1. This document represents a response from researchers at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies to the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill as published on 19 October 2013. It is a statement by the ...
Access to land and rural poverty in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2012-09)
The big picture: some history
• Large-scale land dispossession from 1652 into the late 20th century
• 1913 and 1936 Land Acts: African majority confined to 13% of country
• Forced removals in apartheid years: 2.5 million ...
The political economy of global and regional agro-food system change
(2015)
Changes in the BRICS countries:
What are key similarities/differences between the agrarian structures of Brazil, China and South Africa? What are the dynamics of change within these BRICS countries, in relation to the ...
Directions for land reform – what might another Green Paper propose? Alternative options and their ideological underpinnings
(2012)
International and SA debates: 4 broad approaches & loose coalitions
• “Modernist-conservative”/modernisation: support the existing structure of agriculture (capital intensive farming in large units) but deracialise LSCF ...