Status report on land and agricultural policy in South Africa, 2010

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dc.contributor.authorGreenberg, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-11T11:16:09Z
dc.date.available2019-03-11T11:16:09Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractAgriculture plays numerous roles in society. The most obvious is to produce food (and, to a lesser extent, fibre). While agriculture is the mainstay of the rural economy, it also shapes social relations and landscapes. In some countries, this is taken as an unmitigated positive. However, in South Africa, agriculture is built on the back of dispossession of the African population and their social, economic and political marginalisation. It is built on extractive methods that deplete the soil, the water and the natural vegetation. Agricultural policy in post-apartheid South Africa must grasp these contradictions, simultaneously strengthening the positive features of agriculture and abolishing those that rely on the immiseration of human beings and the destruction of the environment. Agriculture was not high on the list of priorities for the post-apartheid government. It was one of the sectors that experienced deep cuts in the budget following the demise of apartheid. Only from around 2003 did the budget start climbing again, but the 2011 budget estimates are still below those of the 1980s in real terms. Provincial budgets are stagnating.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGreenberg, S. (2010). Status report on land and agricultural policy in South Africa, 2010. Research Report 40. Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4483
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch Report;40
dc.subjectStatus reporten_US
dc.subjectLanden_US
dc.subjectAgricultural policyen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.titleStatus report on land and agricultural policy in South Africa, 2010en_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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