Browsing Occasional Papers Series by Subject "South Africa"
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Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: Challenges for action and research
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)Ten years after liberation, the persistence of poverty is one of the most important and urgent problems facing South Africa. This paper reflects on some of the findings based on research undertaken as part of the participation ... -
Constituting the commons in the new South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2000)This set of papers results from participation by staff members of the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies in the eighth biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, held at ... -
Contested land tenure reform in South Africa: The Namaqualand experience
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)The legacy of apartheid land policy in South Africa remains one of the most conspicuous manifestations of past injustices. To correct this legacy, diverse land reform efforts have centred on the constitutional mandate for ... -
The interaction between the land redistribution programme and the land market in South Africa: A perspective on the willing-buyer/willing-seller approach
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)The debate rages on, in South Africa and elsewhere, about the desirability and efficacy of the willing-buyer/willing-seller approach to land redistribution. In South Africa, the willing-buyer/willing-seller approach is ... -
'It's all about money! Implementation of South Africaís new fisheries policy
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2001)This paper was originally written as part of an economics study commissioned by the Chief Directorate: Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) of the South African Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT). Since ... -
Land politics, trust relations in government and land reform in South Africa: Experiences from the Western and Northern Cape provinces
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2006)The land question, as it is posed academically in South Africa, is at the cutting edge of the development debate.1 Should land held by poor peasants, often under some kind of communal tenure, be re-organised as private ... -
Land reform and biodiversity conservation in South Africa: Complementary or in conflict?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)This paper aims to improve understanding of the conflicts that have arisen between land reform and conservation, and to encourage better comprehension between the land and conservation sectors. It does this by analysing ... -
Leaping the fissures: Bridging the gap between paper and real practice in setting up common property institutions in land reform in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)New common property institutions (CPIs) were created in South Africa soon after 1994 to enable self-constituted groups of people a choice about how they wished to acquire, hold and manage land. They were to provide rural ... -
Policy and institutional dimensions of integrated river basin management: Broadening stakeholder participatory processes in the Inkomati River Basin of South Africa and the Pangani River Basin of Tanzania
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)In recent years, water governance has undergone a remarkable paradigm shift. Old notions of water resources management dominated by a supply-orientation and reliance on civil engineering science and technical solutions to ... -
Polokwane land resolution creates space for struggle
(PLAAS, 2008-06)The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is pleased to re-introduce Umhlaba Wethu, a quarterly bulletin on issues of land and agrarian reform in South Africa. Since 2005, public debate has focused increasingly ... -
Poverty measurement blues: Some reflections on the space for understanding ‘chronic’ and ‘structural’ poverty in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)This paper explores the challenge of understanding chronic and structural poverty in South Africa, and questions the dominance of the econometric imaginary in present-day development and poverty studies. It argues that ... -
State, market or the worst of both? Experimenting with market-based land reform In South Africa
(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 ... -
Study of the incidence and nature of chronic poverty and development policy in South Africa: An overview
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2001)The purpose of this study is fourfold: first, to summarise the current state of knowledge about chronic poverty in South Africa; second, to describe the range of existing governmental and civil society initiatives which ...