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   Radical Land Reform is Key to Sustainable Rural Development in South Africa

   Reports & Research

   August, 2002

   South Africa, Africa

   land

   sustainable development

   scale

   poverty

   rural development

   land reform

   Argues that sustainable development in 21st century South Africa will never be achieved without a radical assault on the structural underpinnings of poverty and inequality inherited from 3 centuries of oppression and exploitation. A large-scale redistribution of land and resources, accompanied by the securing of tenure rights in practice as well as in law, is required for long-term sustainability. Asks how is the government’s land reform performing, and how sustainable are land-based livelihoods?

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   Understanding land acquisitions in Namibia’s communal land: Impacts and policy implications

   Reports & Research

   November, 2015

   Africa, Namibia

   VGGT

   scale

   land reform

   agriculture

   land

   land acquisitions

   land allocation

   land rights

   land tenure

   Members of rural communities in Namibia often lack a basic understanding of what their user rights and responsibilities are under the Communal Land Reform Act and are also unaware of their rights to object to a proposed land allocation or to appeal a decision once made. The large-scale acquisition of land for agriculture and conservation projects often displace local communities or reduce their access to control and ownership of key resources due to the gaps between good legislation and inadequate implementation and enforcement.

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   The disjunctures of land and agrarian reform in South Africa. Implications for the agri-food system

   Reports & Research

   August, 2013

   South Africa, Africa

   land reform

   land

   agriculture

   agrarian reform

   scale

   Includes agri-food regimes and corporate concentration in the agri-food system in South Africa; three broad phases of land reform, 1994-99, 1999-2007, 2007 to the present; two competing views of small-scale agriculture, land reform and small-scale agricultural production, smallholder farmer support.

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   Tribal Land Administration in Botswana

   Reports & Research

   November, 2009

   Botswana, Africa

   customary law

   land

   land administration

   Covers the Tribal Land Act, tribal land administration, customary law, Land Boards, some long-standing issues, problems encountered. Concludes that there are serious problems concerning the administration of tribal land, mainly due to poor governance and ill-advised changes to the Tribal Land Act and its regulations.

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   State, Market or the Worst of both? Experimenting with Market-based Land Reform in South Africa

   Reports & Research

   January, 2007

   South Africa, Africa

   land

   scale

   land reform

   Paper reviews the South African experience with land reform, and land redistribution in particular, up to the end of 2005. Looks at various aspects of market-based land reform – landowner veto on participation in land reform; payment of ‘market prices’ for land; self-selection of beneficiaries; focus on ‘commercial’ forms of production; prominent role for the private sector in provision of credit, extension, and other services.

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   Land Reform in South Africa: is it meeting the Challenge?

   Reports & Research

   September, 2001

   South Africa, Africa

   poverty

   land

   tenants

   scale

   land reform

   Focuses on tenure reform (as a necessary first step); securing rights for farmworkers and labour tenants; slow progress and key challenges in restitution; redistribution; what is to be done? Offers an overview of the key challenges facing land reform and suggests a number of ways in which the current reform programme can be accelerated to fight poverty and inequality. Argues there is urgent need for a comprehensive, transparent, participatory process and for widespread public debate, especially in the light of events in Zimbabwe.

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   Decentralised Land Governance

   Case studies and local voices from Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique

   Reports & Research

   June, 2011

   Madagascar, Mozambique, Botswana

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   customary tenure

   land administration

   land allocation

   land law

   statutory tenure

   This reviews the literature on decentralised land governance in Southern Africa, highlighting key issues and challenges of ‘land governance from below’.