Most of the land in sub-Saharan Africa is governed under various forms of customary tenure.
Over the past three decades a quiet paradigm shift has been taking place transforming the …

Scholarship on African land markets has proliferated in recent years. We contend that this
scholarship consists of distinct literatures that examine non-overlapping parts of the system …

A new political moment is underway. Although there are significant differences in how this is
constituted in different places, one manifestation of the new moment is the rise of distinct …

Why has land reform been such a failure in South Africa? Will expropriation without
compensation solve the problem? What can be done to get the land programme back on …

Contrary to populist political discourses, in South Africa the ruling party's approach to land
policy is reproducing paternalistic relations that echo apartheid practices and represent …

A convergence of factors creates a worrisome contemporary pattern of resource
dispossession of local populations in developing countries. Growing market demand for …

While literature on land grabbing and land formalisation respectively has literally exploded
the past decade, few studies analyse the practical processes taking place at their …

The discussion on informality has become considerably more complex since its inception in
development planning in the early 1970s. Independent discourses exist on the informal …

The South African policy sphere hails the commercialisation of small-scale farming as the
answer to a myriad of socio-economic, ecological and political challenges of rural …

South Africa has historically perpetuated a dual system of freehold commercial and
communal subsistence farming. To bridge these extremes, agrarian reform policies have …