Reforming Land and Resource Use in South Africa : Impact on Livelihoods

ISBN-13: 9780415588553 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 352 str.

Paul Hebinck;Charlie Shackleton;¬Abar

Opis

Debates the emergent proprieties of rural and peri-urban South Africa since land and agrarian reforms were initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994. This book explores how these reforms have broadened options for the use of land and natural resources.

Spis treści

1. Livelihoods, resources and land reform Paul Hebinck and Charlie Shackleton 2. Anger, policy, data: perspectives on South Africa’s poverty question Michael Aliber 3. Land reform and poverty reduction in South Africa Edward Lahiff 4. What is a ‘smallholder’? Class-analytic perspectives on small-scale farming and agrarian reform in South Africa Ben Cousins 5. Land reform and its effect on livelihoods in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa Alastair Bradstock 6. Contested livelihoods at the interface? Ethnographic explorations of two land restitution cases in rural South Africa Yves van Leynseele and Paul Hebinck 7. Liberation betrayed: the case of continued evictions of farm dwellers in the ‘new’ South Africa Teresa Yates 8. Poverty and insecurity of farm workers and dwellers in post-apartheid South Africa Lali Naidoo 9. exploring the role of wild natural resources in poverty alleviation with an emphasis on South Africa Sheona Shackleton and Charlie Shackleton 10. Born-frees and worn trees: home grown medicinal plants and poverty Michelle Cocks, Madeleen Husselman and Tony Dold 11. The contribution of municipal commonage to land reform and poverty alleviation in South Africa: a case study of the Eastern Cape Claire Martens 12. Poverty, land and food production in South African townships Magriet Coetzee and Wim van Averbeke 13. Where are they now? Welfare, development and marginalisation in a former Bantustan settlement in the Eastern Cape, post 1994 Chris de Wet 14. Land and resource reform in South Africa: multiple realities, contradictions and paradigm shifts Paul Hebinck and Charlie Shackleton