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Reforming Land and Resource Use in South Africa - Impact on Livelihoods (Paperback)
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Reforming Land and Resource Use in South Africa - Impact on Livelihoods (Paperback)
Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods
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This book debates the emergent proprieties of rural and peri-urban
South Africa since land and agrarian reforms were initiated after
the transition to democracy in 1994. It explores how these reforms
have broadened options for the use of land and natural resources.
Reform-minded policies in South Africa have assumed that if access
to land and other natural resources is less problematic, the use of
these resources would be intensified which in turn would alter the
structure and dynamic of rural and urban poverty. Reforming Land
and Resource Use in South Africa examines in detail, and from
several disciplinary perspectives, whether and how this has
occurred, and if not, why not. A key argument that this collection
pursues is whether land reform has resulted in transformed use of
natural (i.e. land, crops, cattle, rangeland, wild products etc.)
and other strategic resources (labour, knowledge, institutions,
networks etc.), and the value communities and household place on
them. The contributions explore a combination of new or alternative
meanings of land, including a look beyond crops and cattle per se
to include the collection and selling of wild products, as well as
a discussion of how land for agriculture has become redefined by
land reform beneficiaries as urban land, for settlement and urban
employment opportunities, in addition to urban-based agricultural
activities. Unlike most analyses and commentaries on land reform,
this book pursues an analysis of land reform dynamics at various
levels of aggregation. National and regional level analyses of
poverty and the ramifications of the property clause are combined
with analyses at disaggregate levels such as the land reform
project or village. The book will be of interest to both
researchers and policy makers with an interest in rural development
and social change.
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