The Agribusiness Model in South African Land Reform? Land Use Implications for the Land Reform Beneficiaries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5672651 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clemence Rusenga (0000-0002-0598-4745, Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 440-461 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Agrarian South Journal of Political Economy A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2277-9760 • E-ISSN: 2321-0281 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2277976019872328 |
| OpenAlex | W2985913873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
The land reform programme of the South African government aims, among other things, at generating large-scale employment, increasing rural incomes and combatting poverty. However, the programme equally enforces an agribusiness model that promotes large-scale production through failure to subdivide the large farms, and encouraging the beneficiaries to use the land in the manner that the former white landowners did. The article demonstrates the unsuitability of large-scale production for the land reform beneficiaries, given its unsustainable production costs. On the contrary, the limited costs associated with the small-scale model allow the beneficiaries, including those relying on off-farm income, to produce with better effect
Agribusiness · Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Archaeology · Business · Civil engineering · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Land law · Land reform · Land tenure · Land use · Natural resource economics · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Land Rights and Reforms
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |