Browsing by Author "de Satgé, Rick"

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    Decentralised land governance: Case studies and local voices from Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique
    (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011) Kleinbooi, Karin; de Satgé, Rick; Tanner, Christopher
    Decentralisation has been on the Southern African development agenda for a long time. It is a concept which appears deceptively simple. The principle of subsidiarity holds that decision making about local development priorities needs to take place as close to the people locally involved as possible. Decision making about land access and resource allocation is a key component of a broader decentralisation agenda. However, on closer examination, discourses around decentralisation are complex. They combine preand post colonial histories, changing development trajectories, and understandings about tenure and governance systems. They are set against major shifts in global and local balances of power and fast changing socio-economic relations which further marginalise the poor and deepen inequality.
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    Decentralised land governance: Case studies and local voices from Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011) Kleinbooi, Karin; de Satgé, Rick; Tanner, Christopher
    Decentralisation has been on the Southern African development agenda for a long time. It is a concept which appears deceptively simple. The principle of subsidiarity holds that decision making about local development priorities needs to take place as close to the people locally involved as possible. Decision making about land access and resource allocation is a key component of a broader decentralisation agenda. However, on closer examination, discourses around decentralisation are complex. They combine pre and post-colonial histories, changing development trajectories, and understandings about tenure and governance systems. They are set against major shifts in global and local balances of power and fast changing socio-economic relations which further marginalise the poor and deepen inequality.
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    Final Report
    (GTAC, 2020-03-31) Cousins, Ben; Alcock, Rauri; Aliber, Michael; Geraci, Marisia; Losch, Bruno; Mayson, David; de Satgé, Rick
    This study focuses on the potential contribution of redistributive land reform to employment creation. Can land redistribution be undertaken in a manner that also creates jobs, and if so, through which types of land use and farming systems, operating at what scales? What is the potential of small-scale farming, in particular? Despite its many limitations, the study breaks new ground by investigating the potential of small-scale farming for employment generation in specific locations. It highlights the potential for job creation in many commodities produced by small-scale farmers, and recommends a particular focus on extensive livestock and vegetable production.
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    Matzikama Local Municipality, Western Cape
    (GTAC, 2020-03-31) Mayson, David; de Satgé, Rick; Manuel, Ivor; Losch, Bruno
    This study is part of the CBPEP/GTAC Project: Employment Intensive Land Reform in South Africa: Policies, Programmes and Capacities which aims to develop a set of options for rural land reform in South Africa aimed at generating a large number of employment, self-employment and livelihood-enhancing opportunities through the promotion of small-scale agriculture. This study focuses on the Matzikama municipal area in the West Coast district of the Western Cape.
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    A review of support services for smallholder and small-scale agricultural producers
    (GTAC, 2020) de Satgé, Rick; Phuhlisani, NPC
    The CBPEP/GTAC Project: Employment intensive land reform in South Africa: policies, ‘programmes and capacities aims to formulate a set of options for rural land reform in South Africa aimed at generating a large number of employment, self-employment and livelihood-enhancing opportunities through the promotion of small-scale agriculture. The anticipated project outputs include: • formulating national policy guidelines on the promotion of employment intensive agriculture; • designing ‘programmes for implementation by national and provincial departments in conjunction with non-governmental partners; • costing such ‘programmes; • conceptualizing the provision of relevant support services for those acquiring access to land in different settings, including provision of extension advice and support for marketing of produce. This thematic study reviews support services for smallholders provided by state and non-state actors to date. It provides an analysis of recommendations from the High Level Panel (High Level Panel 2017) and the recent report of the Presidential Panel on Agriculture and Land Reform (2019). It provides an assessment of what needs to change to provide a range of appropriate support services for smallholder and black commercial producers in order promote employment intensive land reform. The final section of the report examines the institutional and capacity requirements of effective extension, institutional and production support systems, with a particular focus on smallholder and small-scale black commercial farmers. It examines what types of support should be offered to producers at different scales, what systems of extension management and institutional oversight are required to manage the provision of effective support systems, and how current support systems would need to be reconfigured to align with this objective.
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    Rural land redistribution in South Africa: Contrasting visions and models
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019) de Satgé, Rick; Cousins, Ben
    There is widespread agreement that land reform in South Africa is in deep trouble. However, there are very different perspectives on what should be done to address the failure to meaningfully redistribute land and resolve the land question. Section 25 of the Constitution requires land redistribution to promote equitable access to land, but progress has been slow and the programme largely ineffective. Budget allocations have been derisory, with only around 0,4% of the annual national budget allocated for land reform as a whole, and around 0.1% for land redistribution (HLP, 2017:50). Over time, land redistribution had steadily drifted away from its original pro-poor focus. Concerns about the high levels of project failure and the inability of the state to ensure support for those acquiring land are recurrent themes. Mounting frustrations over unmet demands for secure access to land in rural and urban areas featured prominently in public hearings on a possible amendment to the constitution, called by parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee in 2018. How to resolve the land question? What should be done? An ambitious conference held in February 2019 took a close look at how the redistribution of land in rural areas could be re-imagined. It did not aim to reach consensus, and the vigorous debate and contestation that took place helped to clarify the key issues and challenges that policy must grapple with.
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    Summary of research findings from seven thematic research studies informing policy proposals for employment-intensive land reform
    (GTAC, 2020-03-31) de Satgé, Rick
    This is the first of three papers which draw together and summarise the key findings from the extensive research conducted as part of a project to develop a draft policy framework for employment intensive land reform. The project has been managed by the Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in association with Phuhlisani NPC. It has been funded under the auspices of the Capacity Building Programme for Employment Promotion (CBPEP) managed by the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC) with support of the delegation of the European Union to South Africa.
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    A synthesis of evidence from five commodity studies
    (GTAC, 2020-03-31) de Satgé, Rick; Phuhlisani, NPC
    This is the second of three papers which draw together and summarise the key findings from the extensive research conducted as part of a project to develop a draft policy framework for employment-intensive land reform. The project has been managed by the Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in association with Phuhlisani NPC. It has been funded under the auspices of the Capacity Building Programme for Employment Promotion (CBPEP) managed by the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC) with support of the delegation of the European Union to South Africa. This paper summarises the findings from five commodity studies selected for their potential to promote employment intensive land reform and sustainable livelihood opportunities. The five commodities are: • livestock; • wool; • fresh vegetables; • subtropical fruit; • sugarcane.
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    A synthesis of evidence from four local municipality studies: Sakhisizwe Local Municipality – Eastern Cape, Nkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality – KwaZulu-Natal, Greater Tzaneen Local Municipality – Limpopo, Matzikama Local Municipality – Western Cape
    (2020-03-31) de Satgé, Rick; Phuhlisani, NPC
    This paper sets out to provide an accessible summary of the key findings which have emerged from the extensive research conducted as part of a project to develop a draft policy framework for employment intensive land reform. The project has been managed by the Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) in association with Phuhlisani NPC. It has been funded under the auspices of the Capacity Building Programme for Employment Promotion (CBPEP) managed by the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC) with support of the delegation of the European Union to South Africa
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    Synthesis report: Land divided: Land and South African Society in 2013, in comparative perspective
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2013) de Satgé, Rick
    Three institutions, the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town, the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch and the Institute for Policy, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape hosted a three day conference Land Divided: Land and South African Society in 2013, in Comparative Perspective from the 24th – 27th March, 2013 at the University of Cape Town. The conference was supported by the Ford Foundation, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Atlantic Philanthropies. The conference was held to mark the centenary of the 1913 Natives Land Act. The social, economic and ecological consequences of this legislation remain deeply incised in South African society and the landscape. The event provided a major opportunity for researchers in academia, civil society and the state to reflect on the continued significance of the ‘land question’ in South African society and to provide fresh analysis and new ways of thinking to untangle the complex web of historical and contemporary factors shaping relationships to land at the start of the twenty first century. The conference facilitated the confluence of different streams of academic and social research while enabling contemporary rural voices to be heard. The conference also saw the launch of the Umhlaba 1913-2013 photographic exhibition at the Iziko National Gallery. The exhibition was co-curated by David Goldblatt, Bongi Dhlomo-Mautloa, Pam Warne and Paul Weinberg and and provided powerful insights into the multiple meanings of land in South Africa, past and present. A second photographic exhibition was hosted at the District Six Homecoming entre, featuring the work of Sophia Klaase, a young photographer from Paulshoek in Namaqualand.
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    Thematic study: The strengths and weaknesses of systems of land tenure and land administration in South Africa and the implications for employment intensive land reform
    (GTAC, 2020) de Satgé, Rick; Phuhlisani, NPC
    The CBPEP/GTAC Project: Employment intensive land reform in South Africa: policies, programmes and capacities aims to formulate a set of options for rural land reform in South Africa aimed at generating a large number of employment, self-employment and livelihood-enhancing opportunities through the promotion of small-scale agriculture. The anticipated project outputs include: • formulating national policy guidelines on the promotion of employment intensive agriculture; • designing programmes for implementation by national and provincial departments in conjunction with non-governmental partners; • costing such programmes; • conceptualizing the provision of relevant support services for those acquiring access to land in different settings, including provision of extension advice and support for marketing of produce.