Ben Cousins
Biographic Data
| ID | 6299261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Cousins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Cousins |
| SIGNATURE | BEN COUSINS |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
This volume will be an essential starting place for analysts, policy-makers, historians and activists seeking to understand what has happened with regards to the struggle over land in Zimbabwe since 2000 and to spotlight the key issues for the next decade. The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the…
Smallholder Agriculture and Land Reform in South Africa
How canland reformcontribute toa revitalisationof smallholder agriculture inSouthernAfrica?Thisquestion remains important despitenegativeperceptions of land reformas a result of the impactofZimbabwe’s “fast-track” resettlement programmeonagriculturalproduction.This articlefocusesmainly onSouthAfrica, whereahighly unequaldistributionof landcoexists withdeep ruralpoverty,but dominant narratives of the efficiency of large-scaleagriculture exert a s …
The role of land-based strategies in rural livelihoods
The majority of South Africa's rural population resides in the former homelands. Although cash from urban and government sources is the mainstay of the rural economy in many areas, the multiple and diverse livelihood base of rural households is not widely recognised. This diversity includes the land-based strategies of arable farming, livestock husbandry and consumption and trade in natural resources. This article examines recent and emerging lit…
Uncertainty and Institutional Design Proposals for Tenure Reform in South Africa
Summaries Emerging perspectives on institutions and uncertainty in natural resource management contexts include consideration of legal pluralism and multiple institutional domains, formal and informal structures and processes, and a focus on practice and process rather than rules. This article examines recent proposals for tenure reform in the former ‘homelands’ (or Bantustans) of South Africa in the light of the mixed experience of tenure reform…
How Do Rights Become Real
Central components of South Africa’s post-apartheid land reform comprise ambitious and wide-ranging ‘rights-based ’ laws and programmes. But how do legally defined rights to resources become effective command over those resources? And what are the limits to social change through legal reform? Two central issues which arise are: supplementing the passing of new legislation with the detailed design of programmes to implement these laws, and the int…
Conflict Management for Multiple Resource Users in Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Contexts
Livelihood systems in rural social formations often involve the utilization of natural resources for multiple purposes (e.g. wetlands which are used for both cropping and for grazing) or by more than one user (as when rangelands are grazed by different herdowners or groups of herdowners). Disputes or conflicts are common in these situations, and institutional frameworks for resolving disputes and managing conflict have usually evolved in response
Debating communal tenure in Zimbabwe
(1993). Debating communal tenure in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 29-39
How Do Rights Become Real
Central components of South Africa’s post-apartheid land reform comprise ambitious and wide-ranging ‘rights-based ’ laws and programmes. But how do legally defined rights to resources become effective command over those resources? And what are the limits to social change through legal reform? Two central issues which arise are: supplementing the passing of new legislation with the detailed design of programmes to implement these laws, and the int…
Smallholder Agriculture and Land Reform in South Africa
How canland reformcontribute toa revitalisationof smallholder agriculture inSouthernAfrica?Thisquestion remains important despitenegativeperceptions of land reformas a result of the impactofZimbabwe’s “fast-track” resettlement programmeonagriculturalproduction.This articlefocusesmainly onSouthAfrica, whereahighly unequaldistributionof landcoexists withdeep ruralpoverty,but dominant narratives of the efficiency of large-scaleagriculture exert a s …
Conflict Management for Multiple Resource Users in Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Contexts
Livelihood systems in rural social formations often involve the utilization of natural resources for multiple purposes (e.g. wetlands which are used for both cropping and for grazing) or by more than one user (as when rangelands are grazed by different herdowners or groups of herdowners). Disputes or conflicts are common in these situations, and institutional frameworks for resolving disputes and managing conflict have usually evolved in response
Debating communal tenure in Zimbabwe
(1993). Debating communal tenure in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 29-39
Debating communal tenure in Zimbabwe
(1993). Debating communal tenure in Zimbabwe. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 29-39
Conflict Management for Multiple Resource Users in Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Contexts
Livelihood systems in rural social formations often involve the utilization of natural resources for multiple purposes (e.g. wetlands which are used for both cropping and for grazing) or by more than one user (as when rangelands are grazed by different herdowners or groups of herdowners). Disputes or conflicts are common in these situations, and institutional frameworks for resolving disputes and managing conflict have usually evolved in response
How Do Rights Become Real
Central components of South Africa’s post-apartheid land reform comprise ambitious and wide-ranging ‘rights-based ’ laws and programmes. But how do legally defined rights to resources become effective command over those resources? And what are the limits to social change through legal reform? Two central issues which arise are: supplementing the passing of new legislation with the detailed design of programmes to implement these laws, and the int…
The role of land-based strategies in rural livelihoods
The majority of South Africa's rural population resides in the former homelands. Although cash from urban and government sources is the mainstay of the rural economy in many areas, the multiple and diverse livelihood base of rural households is not widely recognised. This diversity includes the land-based strategies of arable farming, livestock husbandry and consumption and trade in natural resources. This article examines recent and emerging lit…
Uncertainty and Institutional Design Proposals for Tenure Reform in South Africa
Summaries Emerging perspectives on institutions and uncertainty in natural resource management contexts include consideration of legal pluralism and multiple institutional domains, formal and informal structures and processes, and a focus on practice and process rather than rules. This article examines recent proposals for tenure reform in the former ‘homelands’ (or Bantustans) of South Africa in the light of the mixed experience of tenure reform…
Smallholder Agriculture and Land Reform in South Africa
How canland reformcontribute toa revitalisationof smallholder agriculture inSouthernAfrica?Thisquestion remains important despitenegativeperceptions of land reformas a result of the impactofZimbabwe’s “fast-track” resettlement programmeonagriculturalproduction.This articlefocusesmainly onSouthAfrica, whereahighly unequaldistributionof landcoexists withdeep ruralpoverty,but dominant narratives of the efficiency of large-scaleagriculture exert a s …
Outcomes of post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
This volume will be an essential starting place for analysts, policy-makers, historians and activists seeking to understand what has happened with regards to the struggle over land in Zimbabwe since 2000 and to spotlight the key issues for the next decade. The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago. Their monopolisation of the better-watered half of the…
Geography (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (5 works) · Livelihood (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Commons (4 works) · Land tenure (4 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (3 works)