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Capitalist Collectivisation? How Inappropriate Models of Common Property are Hampering South Africa's Land Reform

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dc.contributor.author Lahiff, Edward en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:31:57Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:31:57Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-10-24 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-10-24 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/749
dc.description.abstract "South Africa's land reform programme has been dominated by the redistribution of sizable properties to large community based groups. Emerging evidence suggests that newly created communal property institutions are widely failing to carry out their functions in terms of land administration, and that as the result, many land reform projects are failing to deliver the expected benefits to their members. Drawing on recent national surveys, and case studies from Limpopo province, this paper explores the difficulties being experienced by new communal property institutions and possible reasons for their lack of effectiveness. Particular attention is paid to the policy framework implemented by the Department of Land Affairs which is oriented towards the preservation of the structure of large-scale commercial agriculture and hostile to the subdivision of properties for household, use. As a result, large community groups are typically required not only to hold land communally, but also to use it as a collective. This paper argues that sustainable common property institutions in South Africas land reform will require a new and more differentiated approach to land use and scales of production." en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject governance and politics en_US
dc.subject community participation en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.title Capitalist Collectivisation? How Inappropriate Models of Common Property are Hampering South Africa's Land Reform en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region Africa en_US
dc.coverage.country South Africa en_US
dc.subject.sector Land Tenure & Use en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth July en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates July 14-18, 2008 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Cheltenham, England en_US
dc.submitter.email elsa_jin@yahoo.com en_US


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