Smallholder Aagriculture and land reform in South Africa

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2005

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Institute of Development Studies

Abstract

How canland reformcontribute toa revitalisationof smallholder agriculture inSouthernAfrica?Thisquestion remains important despitenegativeperceptions of land reformas a result of the impactofZimbabwe’s “fast-track” resettlement programmeonagriculturalproduction.This articlefocusesmainly onSouthAfrica, whereahighly unequaldistributionof landcoexists withdeep ruralpoverty,but dominant narratives of the efficiency of large-scaleagriculture exert a s trangleholdon r uralpolicy(cfToulminandGuèye, this IDSBulletinfor WestAfrica).

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Agriculture, Poverty, Segregation, Race, South Africa

Citation

Lahiff, E., & Cousins, B. (2005). Smallholder Aagriculture and land reform in South Africa. IDS Bulletin, 36(2):127 - 131. 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2005.tb00209.x