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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2013
    South Africa, Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand, India

    USAID welcomes The Coca-Cola Company’s recently announced commitments to ensure that its sugar suppliers protect the land rights of local communities. Coca-Cola - the world’s largest purchaser of sugar - agreed to revise its corporate Supplier Guiding Principles to incorporate principles that recognize and safeguard local communities’ and indigenous peoples’ rights to land and natural resources.

  2. Library Resource
    July, 2012
    South Africa

    Writing at the Council on Foreign Relations’ “Africa in Transition” blog, John Campbell notes that South Africa’s land “issue” is not so simple. How true. Back in 1994 the ANC pledged to transfer ownership and control of 30% of white-owned farmlands to black South Africans by 2014. The process, based on a “willing buyer/willing seller” model has been halting at best and too often communities and farmers that did benefit from a redistribution of land lacked the background or capital to develop sustainable commercial entities.

  3. Library Resource
    September, 2010
    Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda

    In a groundbreaking symposium on women's access to land in Africa, with mostly researchers and institutional officials as attendees, the Huairou Commission delegation provided a unique community-based perspective. The Huairou Commission delegation of 12 grassroots women leaders from Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa participated in two important panels, "Promoting Security of Tenure and Land Rights for Women in Urban Areas" and "Grassroots Women's Practices on Land Access and Control".

  4. Library Resource
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2012
    Africa, South Africa

    Urban land markets have a profound effect on how well poor households are able to access the jobs, amenities and services offered in the city. But often the way in which this market works frustrate attempts to open up better located living and business opportunities for poorer urban households and communities, despite government policies and programmes intended to address these challenges. The challenge in South Africa is even larger because of worsening poverty and inequality, and the continuing growth of cities through urbanisation.

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Africa, South Africa

    This study analyzes the difficulties a
    poor community experienced in accessing peri-urban land in
    South Africa. This community, composed largely of laid-off
    farm workers, wanted to buy their own farm in a peri-urban
    area west of Johannesburg to establish a mixed-use
    settlement. The Ethembalethu 250 families started their own
    savings scheme to make their dream a reality. Millions of
    black South Africans live in the peri-urban areas. However,

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2015
    Africa, South Africa

    The authors use evidence from a survey of about 1200 beneficiaries of South African land reform to assess the performance of the initial phase of the land reform program. They find that the program has not lived up to the quantitative goals set, but did successfully target the poor. It has led to a significant number of economically successful projects that already generate sustainable revenues.

  7. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    South Africa

    Countries everywhere are divided into
    two distinct spatial realms: one urban, one rural. Classic
    models of development predict faster growth in the urban
    sector, causing rapid migration from rural areas to cities,
    lifting average incomes in both places. The process
    continues until the marginal productivity of labor is
    equalized across the two realms. The pattern of rising
    urbanization accompanying economic growth has become one of

  8. Library Resource
    February, 2015
    Africa, South Africa

    This paper uses the 2010/11 Income and
    Expenditure Survey for South Africa to analyze the
    progressivity of the main tax and social spending programs
    and quantify their impact on poverty and inequality. The
    paper also assesses the redistributive effectiveness of
    fiscal interventions given the resources used. Because it
    applies the Commitment to Equity methodology, the results
    for South Africa can be compared with other middle-income

  9. Library Resource
    December, 2012
    Africa, South Africa

    Informal settlements are a permanent
    feature of South Africa's cities. Estimates from the
    General Household Survey by Statistics South Africa show
    that more than 26 percent of all households in the
    country's six metropolitan areas live in informal
    dwellings. The government's policy efforts have focused
    on provision of subsidized housing, first introduced as part
    of the Reconstruction and Development Program. Through the

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