agrarian reform
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Tierra y libertad: Will tenure reform improve productivity in Mexico's ejido agriculture?
Kgalema Motlanthe’s High Level Panel calls for repeal of Ingonyama Trust Act
The Ingonyama Trust headed by Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu should be dissolved and the law that established it on the eve of South Africa’s liberation in 1994 should be repealed. This Act has effectively converted informal rural ownership rights to leasehold. Just days after the report was released, the Ingonyama Trust ramped up its campaign to persuade rural citizens to surrender their informal land rights to the Trust and to accept 40-year leases that could be cancelled for non-payment or other violations of the contract.
Tshintsha Amakhaya Situation Analysis for the Amajuba District Municipality
Action Research for agrarian transformation in farm dweller communities in the Newcastle area of KZN.
Tshintsha Amakhaya Baseline Survey - Key Findings
Summary Report of the TA Baseline Survey - Key Findings
Land and Agrarian Reform NOW
Press Statement calling for Land and Agrarian Reform
Community Submission to the Green Paper on Land Reform
Mayibuye iAfrika! Community Submission to the Green Paper on Land Reform
Access: Links to Tshintsha Amakhaya's activity reports
Since its formation, Tshintsha Amkhaya held a number of gatherings, either workshops or indabas with resolute and progressive outcomes - from activities igniting the spirit of activism, a quest to call for accountability and planning of broad actions to be taken by a collective to challenge the status quo.
Amongst others, reports of these gatherings can be found by clicking on the following links:
Submission: Green Paper on Land Reform
A community submission to the Chief Director of The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform Policy Research and Legislation, Mr S Ogunronbi, on the Green Paper on Land Reform in East London - 23 November 2011.
Op-Ed: Will replacing white farm owners with black farm owners address inequalities?
Debates about land redistribution from white farm owners to black hands tend to be silent on the question of farm dwellers. This is despite the fact that over two million black people are estimated to be living on commercial farms. Many residents have lived on commercial farms for generations, and they are arguing that their plight should be at the centre of land debates, and that redistribution of commercial farmlands must deliver primarily to them. By SITHANDIWE YENI.
Land Reform and Conflict in South Sudan: Evidence from Yei River County
Following South Sudanese independence in 2011, land reform became a major aspect of state building, partly to address historical injustices and partly to avoid future conflicts around land. In the process, land became a trigger for conflicts, sometimes between communities with no histories of “ethnic conflict.” Drawing on cases in two rural areas in Yei River County in South Sudan, this paper shows that contradictions in the existing legal frameworks on land are mainly to blame for those conflicts.
Is contract farming an inclusive alternative to land grabbing? The case of potato contract farming in Maharashtra, India
In the recent explosion of attention given to the land grabbing phenomenon, contract farming has been identified as a potentially inclusive alternative for smallholders to outright acquisition of farm land by agri-business capital. This paper responds to these claims by resituating contract farming as an equally important form of land control. The focus of the paper is a case study of potato contract farming in Maharashtra