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Land and Agrarian Reform

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

 

      
      
      
      

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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New Publications
Dynamics of social differentiation after land reform among former labour tenants in Besters, KwaZulu-Natal
This presentation, made at the 'New Researchers Workshop on Land and Agrarian Studies' on 27-28 October 2011 show how violence is woven into strategies of both survival and accumulation, as well as the many stories told about people in the area.
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy: Africa 82 (1) 2012: 131–49
This article examines the social dimensions of money in South Africa’s informal economy by considering the interplay of agency, culture and context.
Poverty and fisheries: Anything to learn from the Norwegian experience?
Norwegian development assistance has always been poverty oriented on paper, but with a weak understanding of strategies, entry points, interventions and the measuring of results. Norwegian input into fishing systems in developing countries have tended to use the same models applied in Norway.
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