Land reform and livelihoods

About this book

While disappointment with South Africa's land reform programme is widespread, the discussions as to why and in what way tend to be too general or shallow to be either fully convincing or useful. Land Reform and Livelihoods seek to sharpen our understanding of how land reform does or does not work. In doing so, it helps us appreciate to what extent land reform is contributing to poverty reduction, and to what extent it might contribute to reduce poverty even more if we approached it differently. This book presents a refreshingly optimistic but critical assessment of the performance of land reform in South Africa, focusing on its implications for enhancing the livelihoods of a range of types of beneficiaries involved in diverse agricultural and non-farm projects ...