Research Reports: Recent submissions
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Challenging the stereotypes: small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, 2016)This report represents one of the outputs of a research and social dialogue project undertaken over 18 months. It explores a number of private sector partnerships and projects launched in support of black farmers – some ... -
Status report on land and agricultural policy in South Africa
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2010)A strategy that seeks to insert smallholders into the large-scale, industrial, export-oriented model can only succeed in broadening and diversifying the producer base slightly. The large-scale model also brings ... -
Contesting the food system in South Africa: issues and opportunities
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)This report widens the debate about food production and distribution in South Africa to consider some of the entrenched power dynamics that shape the way these happen, and to consider whether a more radical transformation ... -
Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government’s second economy strategy. Volume 2: Case studies
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This second volume of Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government’s second economy strategy contains sixteen case studies that comprise the main data for the analysis detailed in Volume ... -
Imithetho yomhlaba yaseMsinga: The living law of land in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This report describes the ‘living law’ of land in one part of Msinga, a deep rural area of KwaZulu-Natal. It presents research findings from the Mchunu and Mthembu tribal areas, where a three-year action-research project ... -
Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government’s second economy strategy. Volume 1: Situation analysis, fieldwork findings and main conclusions
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009)Within the ambit of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa, government is leading a process to define a Second Economy Strategy, and has identified the agricultural sector as a site of opportunity, ... -
The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)This report investigates emerging trends evident in the limited literature available on the impact of land restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking about, and planning for, livelihoods. The report has ... -
Bjatladi community restitution claim
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)This report focuses on the restitution case of the Bjatladi Communal Property Association (CPA) and the development and use of the land that has been restored to it in terms of the restitution programme. It examines ... -
Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo
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Groenfontein–Ramohlakane community restitution claim
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)This report examines the efforts of the Groenfontein-Ramohlakane Trust to develop and use the land in (Mpumalanga) that has been restored to the community in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 ... -
Business models in land reform
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)This paper reviews the types of business models, or landuse models, being implemented in land reform projects involving the transfer of rural land to communities and other groups in South Africa, under both the restitution ... -
Bakwena ba Mare a Phogole (Klipgat) community restitution claim
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)This report outlines the community’s attempts to develop and use the land that has been restored to it in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 (‘Restitution Act’). It examines the nature and content ... -
Community-based natural resource management in the Southern Africa region: an annotated bibliography and general overview of literature, 1996–2004
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-02)This bibliography is aimed at collating information relating to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) in the Southern African region across different sectors and themes. It was primarily compiled to offer ... -
International comparative study of strategies for settlement support provision to land reform beneficiaries
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)This paper provides some insights into international experience and attempts to distil the key areas of strategic value for consideration in developing a national strategy for support provision to land reform beneficiaries ... -
Trans-boundary natural resources management in Southern Africa: Local historical and livelihood realities within the Great Limpopo Trans-frontier Conservation Area
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)The end of apartheid rule in South Africa, together with the termination of the civil war in Mozambique and the occupation of Namibia by South Africa in the early 1990s, seemed to herald profound changes in international ... -
Joint ventures and livelihoods in emerging small-scale irrigation schemes in Greater Sekhukhune District : Perspectives from Hereford
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2005-09)This report is based on research carried out between June 2003 and April 2005 in the Greater Sekhukhune Cross-Border District Municipality, which straddles the boundaries of the Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces. This ... -
Livelihoods and sharing: Trends in a Lesotho village, 1976–2004
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape & Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc. (CARE), 2005-10)The study compares the livelihoods and inter-household sharing mechanisms in a Lesotho village across a 28 year period. The report examines the complex socio-economic structures and systems that are in place in the rural ...