Browsing Occasional Papers Series by Author "Jacobs, Peter"

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    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Final Report 

      Hall, Ruth; Jacobs, Peter; Lahiff, Edward (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      Land dispossession was a key feature of racism under colonial rule and apartheid in South Africa. More than 3.5 million people were forcibly removed in the period 1960 to 1983 alone, through homeland consolidation, removals ...

    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land redistribution 

      Jacobs, Peter; Lahiff, Edward; Hall, Ruth (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      Land dispossession during the colonial era and the decades of apartheid rule produced a highly unequal pattern of land ownership and widespread rural poverty in South Africa. When a democratically elected government came ...

    • Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Support for agricultural development 

      Jacobs, Peter (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
      In South Africa, land reform has to be more than securing land rights and transferring a certain number of hectares to black people. Broadly speaking, it has to take into account the uneven spatial development patterns ...