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A Practical Guide for Mining-Affected Communities

Manuals & Guidelines
May, 2016
South Africa, Global
Land & Investments
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
forestry
agriculture
mining
land investments
land rights
local communities
extractive industries
This guide seeks to highlight the steps that concerned parties and communities can take to address the challenges that mining poses on communities. It gives communities the tools they need to understand the law that governs mining and to protect their rights. Although it focuses on South Africa, the tools proposed will be relevant for communities facing similar issues in other countries. This resource is part of the CCSI’s Directory of Community Guidance on Agreements Relating to Agriculture or Forestry Investment.
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Accounting for groundwater in future city visions

Land Use Policy Volume 69

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
water
City planners, urban innovators and researchers are increasingly working on ‘future city’ initiatives to investigate the physical, social and political aspects of harmonized urban living. Despite this, sustainability principles and the importance of urban groundwater are lacking in future city visions. Using London as a case study, the importance of groundwater for cities is highlighted and a range of future city interventions may impact on groundwater are reviewed.
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Hybrid land tenure administration in Dunoon, South Africa

Land Use Policy Volume 90

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Central African Republic, United Kingdom, South Africa, Southern Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land registration
land tenure
land use
research
Hybrid land tenure administration occurs in a number of South Africa’s state-subsidised housing projects and in the informal settlements from which the housing beneficiaries tend to be drawn. Ownership is the tenure form in most of these housing projects. Under ownership the law only recognises registered land transactions. Non-government tenure administration in Dunoon was organised by street and area committees that are part of the local South African National Civics Association (SANCO) branch, a community based organisation (CBO).
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Expanding commodity frontiers and the emergence of customary land markets: A case study of tree-crop farming in Venda, South Africa

Land Use Policy Volume 101

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Southern Africa, South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
land markets
land rights
research
smallholders
Contemporary discourses on customary land tenure in Africa, and South Africa in particular, have emphasized the socially embedded and flexible nature of customary land rights, recognising these as inherently more ‘pro-poor’ than individual titling. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations in Venda, a former homeland in South Africa, this paper explores how in the context of expanding commodity frontiers, customary land markets have emerged, leading to de facto privatisation of customary land.
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Criteria for selection and evaluation of biosphere reserves in support of the UNESCO MAB programme in South Africa

Land Use Policy Volume 76

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2018
French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Central African Republic, South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land use
research
The biosphere reserve model is a global designation in accordance with UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme. Biosphere reserves are required to fulfil three functions as prescribed by UNESCO, namely conservation, sustainable development and logistic support. Worldwide, the 669 biosphere reserves in 120 countries are experiencing different degrees of effectiveness in fulfilling these functions.
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Physical Crust Formation on Sandy Soils and Their Potential to Reduce Dust Emissions from Croplands

Volume 9 Issue 12

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
South Africa, Southern Africa
land
research
The sandy croplands in the Free State have been identified as one of the main dust sources in South Africa. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence and strength of physical soil crusts on cropland soils in the Free State, to identify the rainfall required to form a stable crust, and to test their impact on dust emissions. Crust strength was measured using a fall cone penetrometer and a torvane, while laboratory rainfall simulations were used to form experimental crusts. Dust emissions were measured with a Portable In-Situ Wind Erosion Laboratory (PI-SWERL).
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A Transparent and Intuitive Modeling Framework and Software for Efficient Land Allocation

Volume 9 Issue 11

Peer-reviewed publication
November, 2020
Southern Africa, South Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
climate change
urban areas
biodiversity
land allocation
The purpose of this research is to better conserve biodiversity by improving land allocation modeling software. Here we introduce a planning support framework designed to be understood by and useful to land managers, stakeholders, and other decision-makers. With understanding comes trust and engagement, which often yield better implementation of model results.
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Extent of Soil Acidity in No-Tillage Systems in the Western Cape Province of South Africa

Volume 9 Issue 10

Peer-reviewed publication
October, 2020
Southern Africa, South Africa, Turks and Caicos Islands
land
research
Roughly 90% of farmers in the Western Cape Province of South Africa have converted to no-tillage systems to improve the efficiency of crop production. Implementation of no-tillage restricts the mixing of soil amendments, such as limestone, into soil. Stratification of nutrients and pH is expected. A soil survey was conducted to determine the extent and geographical spread of acid soils and pH stratification throughout the Western Cape. Soil samples (n = 653) were taken at three depths (0–5, 5–15, 15–30 cm) from no-tillage fields.
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Dairy Joint Ventures in South Africa’s Land and Agrarian Reform Programme: Who Benefits?

Volume 9 Issue 9

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Central African Republic, Norway, South Africa, Southern Africa
Socio-Economic & Institutional Context
agrarian reform
common lands
land reform
Joint Ventures (JVs) between ‘agribusiness’ investors and ‘small farmers’ or ‘customary landowners’ are being promoted in South Africa’s land and agrarian reform programme as a way to include land reform beneficiaries in the country’s competitive agricultural sector. This paper undertakes an in-depth comparative analysis of two JV dairy farms located on irrigation schemes in the former ‘homeland’ of the Ciskei, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. The community, through government investment, brings the fixed assets to the business: land, irrigation infrastructure and milking parlours.
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Integrating Ecosystem Services and Disservices in Valuing Smallholder Livestock and Poultry Production in Three Villages in South Africa

Volume 9 Issue 9

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2020
South Africa, Southern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
environment
livestock
sustainable land management
This study presents an integrated examination of both the ecosystem services (ES) and ecosystem disservices (EDS) associated with smallholder animal husbandry in rural livelihoods in three villages in southeast South Africa. It recognises the contribution of ES supporting and resulting from smallholder livestock and poultry production, but also details the limiting factors or EDS, such as tick-borne disease, birds of prey or unpalatable rangeland, produced by the same system.