Focal point
Location
Mowbray
Cape Town
Phuhlisani began as a consultancy started by a group of people who wanted to support emerging farmers who obtained access to land through land reform programmes in South Africa. In 2015, after 12 years in operation as a Closed Corporation, the members of the company decided to convert Phuhlisani to a Non-Profit Company which took place in October 2015.
Phuhlisani NPC provides comprehensive services and support for sustainable land reform and rural development including:
- Research and strategy development at national, provincial district and local scales.
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Providing development facilitation and conflict resolution services in complex and contested development settings.
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Providing individual project planning and implementation support.
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Supporting rights determination, strengthening land holding institutions and helping develop functional land rights management systems.
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Developing and strengthening associations representing people acquiring land through the land reform programme.
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Designing comprehensive capacity development strategies and materials.
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Facilitating learning process approaches within institutions and across development programmes.
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Market scoping, agricultural enterprise development and joint venture formation.
Phuhlisani has adopted a trans-disciplinary approach to its work. This involves breaking down the boundaries between so called hard and soft skills, specialist and local knowledge.
The organization believes that this helps to identify solutions which are socially, economically and ecologically sustainable in a context where land and agrarian reform, the promotion of sustainable livelihoods and pro poor rural development take place within an increasingly complex and contested national and international environment.
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Displaying 16 - 20 of 34Options Paper 1: Group operations on government owned land
The paper situates group ownership within the evolution of the land reform programme. The paper presents a group ownership and operations continuum which ranges from informal occupation of state land and production through to more formally structured and regulated production systems and tenure arrangements.
Community development and land acquisition plan for Ebenhaeser and Papendorp (CDLAP)
The key focus of this document is the settlement of the Ebenhaeser restitution claim in the Western Cape. This is guided by the Settlement Framework Agreement which was signed by the Community, the then Department of Land Affairs and the Commission on the Restitution of Land Rights in March 2005.
The CDLAP has three main components:
Agricultural developments on Middelrus farms on land not part of the joint ventures – livestock and arable options
Phuhlisani undertook this study to investigate agricultural options for six land holding communities which had each contributed land to a joint venture. The study focused on potential land uses for land hweld by the entities but that was part of the joint venture: including
- Arable land for household production
- Arable land for small‐scale commercial production
- Sustainable use of the grazing land
The poverty of Restitution?
Land reform and rural development are routinely presented as key components of the poverty reduction strategy driven by the State. The restitution programme occupies a particular place in the broader land reform programme as it specifically seeks to redress the land dispossession which took place since 1913 and to alleviate the impoverishment and suffering it caused. Restitution is a hugely challenging undertaking which involves much more than the verification of claimants and the restoration of land.
Agrivillages and rural settlements
This illustrated report examines four types of agricultural settlement in the Wetsern Cape
- Those initiated by farm owners on large estates with minimal state involvement
- Projects initiated by farm owners to provide workers with tenure security involving sub division of their property
- Projects initiated by farm owners to move workers to new or existing settlements off- farm
- Projects initiated by government to develop new settlements respond to the needs of displaced rural people