Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New Institutional Mechanisms?
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Date
2007
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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Since the 2005 Land Summit, new approaches
to land reform have been on
the agenda, yet there remains little
clarity on the way forward. The main
focus has been on means of accelerating
the redistribution of land through
new modes of acquiring land. Acquisition
is an important matter but if treated
in isolation risks mis-specifying the
core problems evident in land reform
in South Africa.
A new phase of land reform located
within a wider agrarian reform is
needed and will require new institutional
arrangements. Any alternative
strategy will have to revise the institutional
mechanisms that have been
handling land reform thus far: are the
procedures and the institutions that
are in place to design and implement
land reform adequate and appropriate
to the kind of new tasks envisaged?
What new farming units and activities
are intended, and what post-transfer
support will be required to make this
agricultural system productive? This paper
explores mechanisms appropriate
to one kind of agricultural alternative:
a vision of a productive, small-scale essentially
household farm sector.
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Land reform, South Africa, Land Summit, Agrarian reform, New institutional arrangements
Citation
Cliffe, L. (2007). Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New Institutional Mechanisms? Policy Brief 26, Bellville: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape