South Africa's post-Apartheid land reform programs redistribute previously white-owned farmland to a small percentage of blacks, and provide these new farmers with agricultural extension services that promote large-scale agriculture. The shortcomings of the agricultural transformation program are apparent in the village of Genadendal, a former mission reserved for "coloureds" and a historically agricultural community in the Western Cape. The case study of Genandendal demonstrates that a national agricultural transformation program for an elite class of black commercial farmers does not...
South Africa's post-Apartheid land reform programs redistribute previously white-owned farmland to a small percentage of blacks, and provide these new...