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Would Small be More Beautiful in the South African Land Reform?

In: Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa

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  • Henrik Wiig

    (Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research)

  • Henning Øien

    (University of Oslo)

Abstract

It was white people who, under Apartheid, were the owners and entrepreneurs of South African agriculture, while blacks were reduced to the status of serfs or were pushed into traditional farming on unproductive land in the black homelands. When the Apartheid regime was overthrown in 1994, the new government launched the ambitious plan of redistributing 30 percent of the agricultural land to black farmers. However, hindering this plan was the fact that hardly any black people had the agricultural experience, management capacity, or capital to run the large-scale farms — part of the price of 80 years of systematic discrimination that no political intervention can undo in the short run.

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  • Henrik Wiig & Henning Øien, 2013. "Would Small be More Beautiful in the South African Land Reform?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stein T. Holden & Keijiro Otsuka & Klaus Deininger (ed.), Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa, chapter 4, pages 80-104, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-34381-9_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137343819_4
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