This paper focuses on the ways in which the Mpumalanga sugar industry has been transformed by land reform processes and discusses the impact that these processes have had on land reform beneficiaries and on the industry more broadly. Having emerged from apartheid under a dualistic agrarian...

Against a context of declining sugar output in South Africa as a whole, the sugar industry in the Nkomazi Municipality of Mpumalanga Province has increased its share of the South African market. It has achieved this despite the transfer of at least 25 per cent of land growing sugarcane into...

Introducing values that matter / Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan, and Philip Woodhouse -- Value(s) and valuation in development, conservation and environment / Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan, Philip Woodhouse -- Assembling value for money in the UK Department...

Inequality of access to water resources marks South Africa's history even more profoundly than inequality of access to land. Redistribution of rights to water to redress the results of past discrimination is an explicit purpose of the National Water Act of 1998 (NWA). In other respects the NWA...

This paper briefly identifies some underlying premises of the 'small farmer' model that inform much rural development policy designed to address poverty. The paper then reviews recent work on processes governing the use of, and access to, natural resources. It argues that the small farmer model...

The idea of communal tenure has formed a key plank in the rural governance of Zimbabwe since independence, but its retention following the Fast Track land reforms of 2000-2002 perpetuates a distinction between 'commercial' land governed by a land market and 'communal' land on which market...