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Land Rights and Land Reform

Fieldwork
PLAAS Research Assistant, Philani Zamchiya, doing fieldwork in Limpopo. Photo: Ruth Hall, PLAAS, 2007
Photo: Ruth Hall
Linah Milau - Hereford. Photo: Barbara Tapela
Makuleke cotton crop. Photo: Barbara Tapela

Information on Land Rights and Land Reform.

Projects

      
      
      

In the Shadow of a Conflict: Impacts on Zimbabwe's Land Reform on Rural Poverty and Development in Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia

Project Researchers: Phillani Zamchiya and Ruth Hall (South Africa); Bill Derman (Noragric & University of Michigan), and Anne Hellum (Law Faculty, University of Oslo)

      
Livelihoods After Land Reform (LALR)

Livelihoods After Land Reform (LALR)

This project explores to what extent land redistribution in southern Africa is achieving poverty reduction and livelihood improvement objectives.

In southern Africa many agree that land reform is an essential component of efforts to reduce poverty and inequality, but despite important empirical studies there has to date been no systematic assessment of the poverty reduction and livelihood impacts of land reform in the region.


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