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by Olivia Kumwenda, Reuters in 2013
Reclaiming land seized during white minority rule was a dream come true for black families in the South African farming town of Malelane.
But the community had no farming experience, equipment, money or market access. In search of a plan for its 3,300 hectares (8,150 acres) of sugarcane land, it...
by Ben Cousins in 2013
This article describes how rural women seek legal recognition of individual family-based rights within a group rights-based system. Ben Cousins argues that this requires an adaption of customary tenure systems to contemporary conditions, including greater accountability to the rights-holder in...
by Ben White, Saturnino Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Wendy Wolford in 2013
This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing...
by Michael Aliber (ed) in 2013
South Africa: Livelihoods after Land Reform is the South African component of a broader three-country study (also including Zimbabwe and Namibia) on Livelihoods after Land Reform (LaLR). The aim of LaLR is to measure the impact of land reform, but above all it is to understand that impact – how and...
by Development and Change 44(2) in 2013
Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as a ‘global land grab’, new land acquisitions are drawing upon, restructuring and challenging the nature of both...