Revisiting unresolved questions: land, food and agriculture
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Date
2011
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University of KwaZulu-Natal
Abstract
This article explores three articles from the perspective of 2011. They are Makhosazane Gcabashe and Alan Mabin’s ‘Preparing to negotiate
the land question’ (Transformation 11), Tom Bennett’s ‘Human rights and
the African cultural tradition’ (Transformation 22) and Henry Bernstein’s
‘Food security in a democratic South Africa’ (Transformation 24).
The author focuses on four themes: the politics of negotiations; the location of ‘rights’
in land and to custom; the political economy of agrarian change; and the
multiple facets of the ‘land question’. In conclusion, it draws attention to
enduring questions about how to confront agrarian dualism, dynamics of
changing and deepening inequality in the countryside, tensions between
the logic underpinning land and agricultural policies, and the need to recast
agrarian change in a wider frame, in recognition of the profound ways in
which what happens in South Africa’s rural areas are part of regional and
global dynamics.
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Land, Food, Agriculture, Human rights, South Africa, Agrarian reform
Citation
Hall, R. (2011). Revisiting unresolved questions: land, food and agriculture. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 75: 81-94