SANParks gets acting boss
The SA National Parks (SANParks) board has appointed Abe Sibiya, the managing executive of Kruger National Park (KNP), as its acting
31 March 2014
Empty promises to rural people
'There is no doubt that SA is in dire need of more restitution for more people, but that requires a genuine commitment from the
30 March 2014
SANParks boss stands to get millions from MalaMala deal – Legalbrief Environmental
Outgoing SANParks CEO David Mabunda will pocket millions via his shareholding in the game farm the government bought in its most
30 March 2014
SANParks CEO profits from Mala Mala claim: Report
Outgoing SANParks CEO David Mabunda will pocket millions via his shareholding in the game farm that the government bought in its
30 March 2014
NCOP passes land restitution bill
Controversial draft legislation to re-open the land restitution process moved a step closer to becoming law this week when it was
28 March 2014
Title deed of Vleifontein 310 LS and Slag Farm now with CPA
The DRDLR has handed over the title deeds of 2 farms to the Mavungeni Communal Property Association in Limpopo last
28 March 2014
Land claims: Reopening Pandora's Box
Theo de Jager says the restitution process up to now has been chaotic, mismanaged and corrupt
The reopening of land claims is just
25 March 2014
DA launched its green paper on land reform
PARLIAMENT, Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance (DA) says government is not moving fast enough to address the legacy of apartheid.The
25 March 2014
Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill Fact Sheet
Source: Centre for Law and Society, Rural Women's Action Research Programme
Published: October 2013
Content Type: Fact
25 March 2014
New policies undermine security of tenure
New policies undermine security of tenure
Christi van der Westhuizen is Co-Editor of Custom
24 March 2014
Gender and Agriculture after Neoliberalism
This report is based on a workshop that considered the following issues: Agrarian transformations and their gender fault lines;
24 March 2014
Communal Land Tenure Policy (CLTP) Fact Sheet
Overview and critique of the Communal land tenure policy.
Source: Centre for Law & Society
24 March 2014
Update on Communal Property Associations
Overview of CPAs and government's current view on CPAs; reflects concerns about changes to the rights of CPAs
Source: Centre for
24 March 2014
Supporting Smallholders into Commercial Agriculture
The role of Private Sector Partnership
Source: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
24 March 2014
Land reform bill could affect food and jobs
Source: Financial Mail, Shannon Sherry
Published: 4 July 2013
Content Type: Article
Country
24 March 2014
Unworkable land reform project designs offer inappropriate farming models to rural dwellers
South African land reform beneficiaries have been at the mercy of unworkable project designs, largely irrelevant to their livelihood
24 March 2014
Land reform policy discussion document
Source: African National Congress
Published: June 2012
Content Type: Paper
Country Focus:
20 March 2014
Green paper on land reform - summary presentation
Source: Department of Rural Development and Land
20 March 2014
Green paper on land reform
Source: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
Published: 11 August 2012
Content Type:
20 March 2014
Agricultural households Census 2011
Status of the South African household based agriculture as depicted in the Population Census of 2011. Provides a provincial breakdown
20 March 2014
Policy for the recapitalisation and development programme of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
Source: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
Published: 23 July 2013
Content Type: Policy/
20 March 2014
From subsistence to profit: Transforming smallholder farms
Presents a typology of the diverse livelihood strategies and development pathways for smallholder farmers in developing countries, and
20 March 2014
Beyond the 'problem' narrative
Towards an agenda for improved policy and practice in land reform
Source: Institute for Poverty, Land and
20 March 2014
The disjunctures of land and agricultural reform in South Africa
Implications for the agri-food system
Source: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
20 March 2014
Global Capital, Local Concessions
A Data-Driven Examination of Land Tenure Risk and Industrial Concessions in Emerging Market Economies
Source: Rights
20 March 2014
Structural Transformation and the Agro-food system: Challenges for South Africa
Prof Andries du Toit looks at the challenges for structural transformation of South Africa's agro-food and farming systems, in a
20 March 2014
Farming and Food in Africa and the Mounting Battle over Land, Water and Resource Rights | GREAT Insights 3(1)
Africa is being heralded as the new frontier for commercial farming but, as governments and investors sign deals, a counter-movement of
20 March 2014
Workshop report: National Land Workshop for Civil Society
A number of recent government policies and bills seem to suggest that land may increasingly be transferred into the hands of
20 March 2014
When Companies Meet Communities: Is This What Friendly Commercial Farming Looks Like?
In the shadow of a small warehouse in the verdant Volta Region of eastern Ghana, Zikpuitor Awuku Atakli, the chief of the local Fievie
20 March 2014
Hunger in the former apartheid homelands: Determinants of converging food security 100 years after the 1913 Land Act
One hundred years after the implementation of the 1913 Land Act, the subject of land reform and rural development are still at the
20 March 2014
Livelihood roles of cattle and prospects for alternative land uses at the wildlife/livestock interface in South Africa
The emergence of wildlife ranching as an alternative land use option to agriculture, in Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs), has
20 March 2014
Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century
20 March 2014
Conflicts over land and threats to customary tenure in Africa today: Part One
In the first blog of this two-part series, Pauline Peters argues that ‘land grabs’ in Africa, and the debates that surround them,
20 March 2014
Funding hurdles scupper issuance of Zimbabwe land leases
Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF government has failed to avail enough 99-year leases to thousands of black commercial farmers who obtained
20 March 2014
Land reform can transform livelihoods
THAT the Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) has reduced Zimbabwe from the breadbasket to the basket-case of Africa is the crude
20 March 2014
Transparency and governance in the land sector: two sides of the same coin?
and transparency has been on the public agenda again since the G8 summit in June this year. Two events in the same week in October
20 March 2014
Land reform will remain a hot topic
Land reform in South Africa has and will continue to be a contentious topic. In resolving the inequalities of the past, the SA
20 March 2014
Some good news for landowners
Durban - The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has been allocated a budget of close to R600 million to help
20 March 2014
How China and Brazil are engaging in African agriculture deserves a closer look
2013 is turning out to be a big year for food and agriculture in Africa. It is a decade since the launch of the African Union’s CAADP
20 March 2014
Rural young people, agriculture and work in Africa: new thinking about an old problem
In a recent IFPRI blog post, Karen Brooks suggests that “for a generation of [African] young people entering adulthood, agriculture
20 March 2014
South Africa: Land Reform Debates Heat Up Again, 100 Years after the Natives Land Act
Today, 19 June, South Africa will mark the centenary of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act, a piece of legislation which effectively excluded
20 March 2014
When Companies Meet Communities: The Copper Storm Brewing in North-Western Zambia
Solwezi, Zambia:
Copperbelt Province is the traditional epicentre of Zambia’s mining sector, where cities are branded by multinational
20 March 2014
FAC CAADP Policy Brief 11: Supporting small farmers to commercialise
Source: Future Agricultures Consortium, Kate Wellard-Dyer
Published: 2013
Content Type:
20 March 2014
A Small-Scale Farmer's Story in Malawi: Harvesting the Crops and Looking Ahead
This is the third and final in a series of posts from Chikumbutso Patson Kayira, a small-scale farmer in Malawi, documenting his
20 March 2014
A Small-Scale Farmer's Story in Malawi: Fertiliser, Planting and Dry Spells
This is the second in a series of posts from Chikumbutso Patson Kayira, a small-scale farmer in Malawi, documenting his experiences and
20 March 2014
A Small-Scale Farmer's Story in Malawi: Challenges and Modern Methods
This is the first in a series of monthly updates from Chikumbutso Patson Kayira, a small-scale farmer in Malawi, documenting his
20 March 2014
Wanna Frack? Pressure rises in South Africa’s debate over natural gas exploration
The Karoo is a stunning but thirsty semi-desert stretching, from the Western coast of South Africa, across a third of the country. It
20 March 2014
Ethiopia: When a traditional past collides with an irrigated future
Kangaton, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia:
A short stroll away from the bloated Omo River in Ethiopia's
20 March 2014
Africa: resource rights groups call for doubling of community-controlled land
A group of international organisations working on rights linked to natural resources has called for the amount of land recognised as
20 March 2014
Hungry for answers: Zimbabwe's apparent food crisis
Following on from the World Food Programme’s (WFP) press release that 2.2 million people will be in need of food aid in the coming
20 March 2014
DRDLR annual performance plan, 2012 - 2013
Source: Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
Published: 9 April 2013
Content Type:
20 March 2014
Why South Africa's land reform agenda is stuck
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the South African Land Act, which restricted black people from buying or
20 March 2014
New policies undermine security of tenure
A plethora of bills and policies has been released in recent times that hold negative implications for the security of tenure of people
20 March 2014
Cool heads needed in land reform debate
It is time for a clear perspective on the emotive issue of land reform in South Africa. Only if we cut through the disinformation, bad
20 March 2014
No clear owners of huge tracts of SA land
That is the finding of what was due to be a definitive audit of land ownership released, in abbreviated form, on Thursday, after it was
20 March 2014
Land claims draft legislation likely to backfire
Draft legislation that aims to reopen SA’s land claims process is likely to backfire on a state that’s still battling to finance and
20 March 2014
The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
Source: Edited by Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Wendy Wolford
20 March 2014
Farms restored to North West communities
Four farms that will benefit 2304 people of the Barolong Boo Makgobi Community Property Association will be finalised by the end
16 March 2014
What Future For Reform? Progress and slowdown in forest tenure reform since 2002.
The Rights and Resources Initiative is pleased to announce the release of its latest report, What Future For
1 March 2014
