Reforming land and resource use in South Africa : impact on livelihoods / / edited by Paul Hebinck and Charlie Shackleton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821224603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-88606-0; 1-136-88607-9; 1-283-04356-4; 9786613043566; 0-203-83964-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Collana: Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods ; ; 6
• Altri autori (Persone): HebinckPaulus Gerardus Maria <1953->; ShackletonC. M (Charles Michael)
• Disciplina: 333.70968
• Soggetti: Land reform - South Africa; Land use - South Africa; South Africa Economic conditions; South Africa Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Livelihoods, resources and land reform; 2 Anger, policy, data: Perspectives on South Africa's 'poverty question'; 3 Land reform and poverty reduction in South Africa; 4 What is a 'smallholder'?: Class-analytic perspectives on small-scale farming and agrarian reform in South Africa; 5 Land reform and its effect on livelihoods in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa; 6 Contested livelihoods at the interface: Ethnographic explorations of two land restitution cases in rural South Africa7 Liberation betrayed: The case of continued evictions of farm dwellers in the 'new' South Africa; 8 Poverty and insecurity of farm workers and dwellers in post-apartheid South Africa; 9 Exploring the role of wild natural resources in poverty alleviation with an emphasis on South Africa; 10 Born-frees and worn trees: Home grown medicinal plants and poverty; 11 The contribution of municipal commonage to land reform and poverty alleviation in South Africa: A case study of the Eastern Cape12 Poverty, land and food production in South African townships; 13 Where are they now?: Welfare, development and marginalization in a former Bantustan settlement in the Eastern Cape, post 1994; 14 Land and resource reform in South Africa: Multiple realities, contradictions and paradigm shifts; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book debates the emergent proprieties of rural and peri-urban South Africa since land and agrarian reforms were initiated after the transition to democracy in 1994. It explores how these reforms have broadened options for the use of land and natural resources. Reform-minded policies in South Africa have assumed that if access to land and other natural resources is less problematic, the use of these resources would be intensified which in turn would alter the structure and dynamic of rural and urban poverty. Reforming Land and Resource Use in South Africa examines in detail, an