Phone: +27219593733 Address: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Bellville 7535
South Africa
The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act of 2014 has reopened the land claims process for ano... more The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act of 2014 has reopened the land claims process for another five years, extending the deadline to 2019. An impact assessment commissioned by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) anticipates that an estimated 397 000 new claims will be lodged, at a potential outlay of R130–179 billion (DRDLR, 2013) – possibly three times the cost of the arms deal. These are expensive and controversial measures. Some see them as appropriate and necessary for pro-poor land reform while others view them as highly problematic – especially members of rural communities whose claims have not been settled in the sixteen years since 1998, when the deadline for lodging land claims expired. A slow and administratively cumbersome process of land restitution has done little to support the wider objective of transforming racially-skewed patterns of land ownership. Many of the new claims will be settled with cash compensation, and thus be even less li...
El termino 'acaparamiento con fuerza en los ultimos anos para describir el renovado interes d... more El termino 'acaparamiento con fuerza en los ultimos anos para describir el renovado interes de las empresas por la tierra agraria, que se materializado en forma de cerramientos y privatizaciones de tierras a gran escala. Sin embargo, este termino esconde importantes diferencias respecto a la legalidad, la estructura y los resultados de los acuerdos comerciales sobre la tierra, de manera que desvia la atencion respecto al papel desempenado por las elites y los gobernos locales como socios, intermediarios y beneficiarios. Este articulo aborda las adquisiciones recientes de tierras propiedad del Estado y tierras bajo regimenes tradicionales de tenencia en el sur de Africa. Se presta especial atencion a sus diversas manifestaciones: la cuestion de la dimension de las superfiies negociadas, la duracion de los acuerdos, el origen de las inversiones, los productos y los modelos de negocio en torno a los cuales se implementan, los acuerdos de tenencia y los recursos a los que dan acceso...
Adebajo and Landsberg (2003) have argued that South Africa and Nigeria have emerged in the post c... more Adebajo and Landsberg (2003) have argued that South Africa and Nigeria have emerged in the post cold war period as ‘regional hegemons’ in Southern and West Africa respectively. But such characterisations hinge on an international relations perspective focusing on states, conflict and diplomacy, rather than our concern here, which is about political economy in relation to agro-food systems – in which the state is implicated but not a useful unit of analysis.
The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act of 2014 has reopened the land claims process for ano... more The Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act of 2014 has reopened the land claims process for another five years, extending the deadline to 2019. An impact assessment commissioned by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) anticipates that an estimated 397 000 new claims will be lodged, at a potential outlay of R130–179 billion (DRDLR, 2013) – possibly three times the cost of the arms deal. These are expensive and controversial measures. Some see them as appropriate and necessary for pro-poor land reform while others view them as highly problematic – especially members of rural communities whose claims have not been settled in the sixteen years since 1998, when the deadline for lodging land claims expired. A slow and administratively cumbersome process of land restitution has done little to support the wider objective of transforming racially-skewed patterns of land ownership. Many of the new claims will be settled with cash compensation, and thus be even less li...
El termino 'acaparamiento con fuerza en los ultimos anos para describir el renovado interes d... more El termino 'acaparamiento con fuerza en los ultimos anos para describir el renovado interes de las empresas por la tierra agraria, que se materializado en forma de cerramientos y privatizaciones de tierras a gran escala. Sin embargo, este termino esconde importantes diferencias respecto a la legalidad, la estructura y los resultados de los acuerdos comerciales sobre la tierra, de manera que desvia la atencion respecto al papel desempenado por las elites y los gobernos locales como socios, intermediarios y beneficiarios. Este articulo aborda las adquisiciones recientes de tierras propiedad del Estado y tierras bajo regimenes tradicionales de tenencia en el sur de Africa. Se presta especial atencion a sus diversas manifestaciones: la cuestion de la dimension de las superfiies negociadas, la duracion de los acuerdos, el origen de las inversiones, los productos y los modelos de negocio en torno a los cuales se implementan, los acuerdos de tenencia y los recursos a los que dan acceso...
Adebajo and Landsberg (2003) have argued that South Africa and Nigeria have emerged in the post c... more Adebajo and Landsberg (2003) have argued that South Africa and Nigeria have emerged in the post cold war period as ‘regional hegemons’ in Southern and West Africa respectively. But such characterisations hinge on an international relations perspective focusing on states, conflict and diplomacy, rather than our concern here, which is about political economy in relation to agro-food systems – in which the state is implicated but not a useful unit of analysis.
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