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Joint ventures
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
South Africa s land reform programme is based on the state providing grants to landless people who negotiate with white
landowners to purchase land. The high price of land, among other factors, has led to the emergence ...
Municipal commonage
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
The Municipal Commonage Programme of the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) aims to enable poor residents to access commonage
lands in order to supplement incomes and enhance food security. New commonage accounted for 31% ...
Rural settlement
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
The focus of South Africa s land reform programme is the acquisition of land and securing tenure rights. Land reform has provided
many people with land. However, access to land is only one component of settlement. Settlement ...
The context of land and resource rights struggles in Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
Africa’s poor are heavily dependent on land and natural resources for livelihood, but some governments continue to resist
transferring full resource management rights to them. This risks the loss or degradation of these ...
South African fisheries reform – past, present and future?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
Two approaches to transformation of the South African fishery industry were adopted after the advent of democracy:
the broadening of access rights to new rights holders (individuals and companies) through state intervention ...
Civil society and social movements: Advocacy for land and resource rights in Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
Civil society formations in Africa have historically played an important part in the establishment of organising people in the pursuit
of common goals. The majority of Africa’s people reside in rural areas where they ...
Common property resources and privatisation trends in Southern Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
Access to common property resources (CPRs) is a significant part of the land resource base and therefore the livelihoods of many
poor rural people. However, despite their central importance, CPRs are declining throughout ...
Community conservancies in Namibia: An effective institutional model for commons management?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
Common property resources (CPRs) remain of great significance for livelihoods among rural and poor communities of the world.
CPRs are particularly important because in many contexts they remain resources of last resort ...
Budgeting for land reform
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
The primary purpose of land reform in South Africa is to redistribute agricultural and other land in order to address the racially
skewed pattern of landholding and promote development. Slow progress in land reform over ...
Nepad, land and resource rights
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) is an overarching programme for revitalising Africa’s fortunes. It has a
visionary tone, yet the way that it proposes to overcome Africa’s underdevelopment uncritically ...