ANOTHER COUNTRYSIDE? POLICY OPTIONS FOR LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA/Ruth Hall (ed.)

Agrarian reform and the ‘two economies’: transforming South Africa’s countryside

This chapter focuses on the rural dimensions of the ‘two economies’ debate, and in particular on the question of what contribution land and agrarian reform can make to reducing inequality and addressing the structural nature of rural poverty in post-apartheid South Africa. It suggests that the problem needs to be conceptualised in terms of an ‘agrarian question of the dispossessed’, that can on...

Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa Land use and livelihoods

Whither agrarian reform in South Africa?

Workshop on Community Perspectives on Land and Agrarian Reform (CPLAR) in South Africa

ing issues from the overall programme and perspective, there appear to be significant moments of c~!_l.se~l!_S between_ the ANC and_ Wo.rld_Bank particularly with regard to the scale, scope and general direction of the land reform process in South Africa. There are, however, three main disagreements between the ANC and the World Bank. The first centres on th~motivation for land reform. Whilst t...

Agrarian Reform , Land Distribution , and Small - Farm Policy as Preventive of Humanitarian Emergencies

1 The term reform is used for a wide range of changes, including some which increase the concentration of land. Here the discussion is limited to cases in which an increase in the number of families with access to enough land to helo them avoid poverty is at least a reasonably likely result, since otherwise it would not be expected to contribute to prevention of agriculture-related emergencies....