household economy of pastoralists and wage-labourers in the Richtersveld, South Africa
The forests of the estates _iče and Fraj_tanj and their economy in the period between the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century
The subject of the treatise are the forests (woods) and their economy on _iče and Fraj_tanj estates in the Lower Styria, which were the property of the Styrian Religion Fund, in the period between the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. The first estate possessed 2365 and the second 1423 yokes of forests. The distribution of the tree species and the state of the forest stands, which were with some exceptions generally bad, are described.
Land reform and the new elite: Exclusion of the poor from communal land in Namaqualand, South Africa
“Die man is die hoof en vat voor”1: Women's attitudes to land and farming in the communal areas of Namaqualand
Agriculture and working-class political culture: A lesson from The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck's 1939 novel can be given a reading that links events and the mentality of characters to mainstream schools of liberal and neo-liberal political theory: libertarianism, egalitarianism, and utilitarianism. Each of these schools is sketched in outline and applied to topics in rural political culture.
Agriculture, livelihoods, and globalization: The analysis of new trajectories (and avoidance of just-so stories) of human-environment change and conservation
Globalization offers a mix of new trajectories for agriculture, livelihoods, resource use, and environmental conservation. The papers in this issue share elements that advance our understanding of these new trajectories.
Politics of Land Reform: Tenure and Political Authority in Rural Kwazulu-Natal
When South Africa's land reform programme finally reached rural Umbumbulu, a potential for conflict over land emerged unexpectedly. Strategically located near a major urban centre, residents of this region have long relied on wages and social welfare grants. Land was valued primarily for residential security and as a symbolic representation of community membership, rather than for productive purposes. This emphasis on community membership, however, created the potential for conflict when a local chief challenged a civil society group over their authority to claim land.
Land Privatisation and Farm Restructuring in Ukraine: The Political Economy Perspective
Upon request this paper is available from the author.
Changing patterns of water distribution under the influence of land reforms and simultaneous WUA establishment
In 2005 the Uzbek government accelerated the dissolution process of collective farms through full-scale land reform. As the central production unit, the collective enterprise was supplanted by a private, family-based enterprise. Simultaneously Water Users Associations (WUAs) were established that operate and maintain the irrigation and drainage infrastructure of the former collective farms. Though these land-cum-water reforms could in principle initiate enormous changes, there is still a strong continuity due to the state-regulated agricultural system.
an essay on the complementarity between market- and government-led land reform for its resolutioncrisis of rural poverty and hunger
The profession of (agricultural) economists and the experience of transition
The objective of the paper is to survey the state of knowledge of economists and agriculturaleconomists at the onset of transition and seventeen years later. The "standard" economicreasoning in the early nineties were based on neoclassical economics and documented was hasbeen termed the Washington Consensus. It is shown that the discrepancy between expectationsand reality as well as the evolution of institutional economics has challenged economists.