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- R Alcock Photo essay: The haze of emerging farming
- M Aliber The opportunities and limitations of the Willing Buyer/Willing seller approach
- W Anseeuw Between subsistence and corporate agriculture – The reinforcement of South Africa's agricultural and territorial dualisms
- E Archer Climate change challenges in farming in drylands
- B Atuahene We want what's ours: Land restitution in South Africa's cities
- J Battersby-Lennard What more needs to be done to improve the viability of urban agriculture for the urban poor?
- W Beinart The longer term legacy of the Natives Land Act: Debates about dispossession & smallholder production
- H Bernstein Agrarian worlds of 1913 and 2013: Implications for land reform today
- H Bernstein Commercial agriculture in South Africa since 1994: ‘Natural, simply capitalism’
- A Beukes More than renewable energy to go: The ishack project as a lens through which to read tenure insecurity for SA's urban poor
- A Black, B Conradie, & H Gerwel Planting trees in the desert: Declining support for agriculture and the context for land reform in SA
- F Brandt & M Spierenburg How game fences shape community boundaries in the Karoo
- L Braun Cut into little bits: Buying & selling individual tenure in Fingoland, 1864-1913
- S Brooks An arc of dispossession? Reflections on research on private game farming in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands
- T Brown Land, property & legal order: A critical legal geography perspective on land ownership & regulation in the Southern African region
- B Bunce Using payments for environmental services to create sustainable livelihoods for land reform beneficiaries in South Africa
- G Capps The tribal-title-trust regime: Historical dimensions of the contemporary land struggle in Bafokeng
- M Chasukwa & B Chinsinga An unfinished agenda in a neo-liberal context? Lessons from land reform in Malawi
- D Chikazunga Dynamics of South Africa’s agricultural value chains: Opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers
- E Chigumira Farming against the odds? An examination of re-peasantization in the Sanyati District, Zimbabwe
- A Claassens Law, land and custom 1913-2013: What is at stake?
- L Cliffe Land reform & redistribution in Kenya and Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa
- J Cock The ‘green economy: a sustainable development path or a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’?
- B Cook & B Emanuel Lessons from the Toronto Food Strategy in using food to create healthier cities and adaptive municipal governance
- B Cousins Smallholder irrigation schemes, agrarian reform and ‘accumulation from below”: Evidence from Tugela Ferry, KwaZulu-Natal
- T Cousins & J Clarke Territory and capacity in South Africa's forestry plantations
- N Davis Land still divided! Restorative justice, actors & agency in the context of inclusive business models: lessons for land reform from the Moletele land claim, Limpopo Province
- T de Jager Aligning land reform and transformation of agriculture
- Peter Delius & William Beinart The historical context and legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913
- B Derman Reflections on commercial partnerships and Communal Property
- C de Wet Land administration, resettlement and local socio-economic change, against the background of the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936: an Eastern Cape case study
- J Dlamini Edward Tsewu and the struggle for African property ownership: Rethinking the prehistory of the 1913 Natives Land Act
- A Ducastel, M Boche & W Anseeuw South Africa's role in farmland investment funds in southern Africa
- G Dobler Between economic security & productivity: colonial attitudes towards communal lands in Namibia, 1915 - 1990
- O Dodo Land reform in Zimbabwe: A noble policy but poorly planned and executed: A case of Mashonaland Central Province, 2000 to 2012
- A Dubb Patterns of social differentiation among small-scale sugarcane growers in Mtubatuba
- DJ du Plessis Urbanisation and development patterns: Implications for Bantustans in the post-1994 era
- M Evans Land, socio-economic rights & transformative justice
- D Fay The costs of delayed & incomplete co-management at Dwesa-Cebe
- T Fife Reflections on the Richtersveld Restitution Agreement Implementation
- D Fig Power grab: The ecological challenges & potential socio-economic impacts of shale gas mining in the Karoo
- M Fleischer "The food may grow but the city is starving." A critical perspective on urban agriculture under San conditions of local social dynamics
- C Fogelman Land Reform in the Era of HIV: Reflections on Lesotho's Land Act of 2010
- J Foster White identity, improvement, and modernism: recuperating the “unnatural” landscapes of mining on the Highveld, 1950–1970
- N Gasa Constructing and deconstructing the meanings of boundaries in South African history
- A Genis If you want to be here next year, you cannot go on as before: Accumulation and differentiation in Limpopo Province
- H Gerwel The impact of the land reform process on agricultural productivity & livelihood opportunities in the Eastern Cape: A case study of the Blue Crane Route Municipality
- H Geyer The Poverty Trap: Bridging the diseconomies of subsistence agriculture in South Africa
- M Godby Landscape from Below: The Representation of Farmland in Tracey Derrick’s EarthWorks: The Lives of Farm Labourers in the Swartland
- O Graefe Town proclamation & town land allocation in communal areas as a means of state control
- J Grant The importance of community cohesion in land restitution: a case study of the Khomani San community, Northern Cape
- K Haire & DS Matjila Plaatje's elevation of the down-trodden black South African mine, farm & domestic worker in Native Life in South Africa & The Mote & The Beam
- Ruth Hall Who, what, where, how, why? Mapping the many disagreements about land and agrarian reform
- R Hall Exporting dualism: The expansion of South African capital in African farmland deals
- T Hart Translating rural land reform into benefits
- M Hay A Tangled Past: Land Settlement in Mopani District, Limpopo, in the 20th Century
- P Hayes Goldblatt's photography & economics of land
- P Hebinck Beyond land
- P Hendler & A Wolfson The Planning and the “Unplanning” of Urban Space 1913 to 2013: Privatised Urban Development and the Role of Municipal Governments
- S Hlabisa Customary governance in post-apartheid South Africa: Land and the production of authority
- T Hoffman Changing patterns of rural land use and land cover in South Africa and their implications for land reform
- D Hornby Hybrid livestock systems on land redistribution projects in KwaZulu-Natal: reproduction/ accumulation dynamics & social differentiation
- J Hursh The language of expropriation and compensation: A comparative assessment of constitutional property clauses in South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe
- K Ikegami Land reform and fair trade in South Africa: Focusing on the case of Heiveld Cooperative in the Northern Cape Province
- E Ingwani Land transactions in peri-urban Domboshava, Zimbabwe: Causes, nature and outcomes
- Sarah Ives Tea Stories: Cultivating Value on the Margins in South Africa’s Western Cape
- P Jacobs & N Andrew, Collision course? Concentration in landholding and agriculture vs development plans for smallholders and farmworkers
- M Jaison People & Land in a changing environment: A critical realist exploration of relations to land in Masvingo, Zimbabwe
- D James The road back to Doornkop: Land purchase, land title and the 1913 Natives Land Act
- M Jara Toward an agrarian reform agenda & policy implications
- M Jara Beyond the Willing Buyer/Willing Seller approach: Testing the scope and limits of the ‘property clause’
- P Johnston Climate change and grain farming: are emerging farmers vulnerable?
- J Josefsson The waiting (for the) game & no unauthorised entry: Two perspectives on the politics
- K Juza The struggle for the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve and access to resources: An insider’s perspective
- T Kamuti Coordinating control: How national and provincial environmental policy is shifting in South Africa
- R Kesselring ‘Citizens’ and ‘Subjects’ in today’s South Africa: Apartheid-era victims in urban areas and their ideas of redress
- R Kingwill Space & property: Native locations, land surveys & family property in the former Ciskei
- K Kleinbooi & L Evans Agri-villages in the Western Cape
- T Knowels Landscape restoration as climate change mitigation and adaptation
- A Krog Baas van die Plaas: identities of land-disdain
- E Lahiff Commercial partnerships in South Africa’s land reform programme: lessons and experience since 1994
- S Lemke Smallholder agricultural programmes targeted at women: exploring benefits and challenges
- M Lewis Urban agriculture in Johannesburg – livelihoods and informal markets
- E Lusepani Land as commodity and its effects on land reform: Commodity or human right?
- N Luwaya Reflections on the TCB campaign and methodologies used, in the light of future challenges
- R Mabe Mentorship & extension & integrated approach: evidence from the South African
- G Mackenzie Unique case, generic solution: South African land reform in an international context
- L Maluleke A simplistic approach, or perhaps a little naïve
- T Manenzhe Investment or Consumption? Agrarian question of labour in Limpopo Province
- J Manjengwa, J Hanlon & T Smart Zimbabwe takes back its land: Is this the 'best use' of the land?
- B Matinga-Katundu The meaning of land and land rights in rural matrilineal communities of Southern Africa: A case study of Muluwira village in Zomba, Malawi
- S Matjila Lefatshe (land) in Setswana life and literature
- E Matthaei Perceptions & attitudes towards the Communal Land Rights registration process in independent Namibia
- J Merron Experts and 'Green' Innovation: The technoscience of transforming land in the Eastern Cape
- L Metelerkamp Agricultural innovation in the Swartland: Investigating promising practices for larger farms
- B Mkhize Driefontein 1913-2013
- S Mnisi Weeks Layers of authority, boundaries of decision-making
- S Mnwana Mineral wealth – ‘in the name of morafe’? Paradoxes of ‘community control’ in the Bafokeng and Bakgatla traditional authority areas
- S Motala, T Hart, P Jacobs & C Nemachena How can/could Agrarian Reform help to reduce rural poverty? Insights from new South African Evidence
- Sam Moyo Agrarian change after Fast Track Land Reform: Lessons for South Africa?
- C Morris Failed deeds: The Masakhane farm workers and state negligence under customary law reform policies
- F Mtero Commercialisation and de-agrarianisation: ‘Massive’ maize production schemes and rural livelihoods in the Eastern Cape
- R Muponde Jambanja?: The politics and aesthetics of land in Zimbabwe
- P Mutopo Understanding livelihoods & gender after Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform in Mwenezi District: Lessons for South Africa
- E Mwathunga Contesting urban spaces in Malawi
- W Mwatwara The politics of land reform: A comparative study of South Africa & Zimbabwe in the post 1994 era
- M New Climate change: Distant problem or emerging risk?
- N Ntoni, J Philips & S Rhode Readings from This is my Land
- A Obi Impact of land reform on farmland prices: examining the effects of diverse farmer support schemes and foreign buyers in South Africa
- B O'Laughlin Burning cane: Sugar, land and work in Southern Africa
- G Paradza Adverse incorporation & the South African sugar boom in Mozamibique
- A Paterson Co-managing South Africa's conservation & land reform agendas: Evaluating recent govt initiatives to resolve the unruly interface thrust upon SA's protected areas
- A Paterson & M Mkhulisi Facilitating inclusive, participatory & human-centred legal approaches to conservation in protected areas: Lessons from the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve
- V Payn The relationship between landscape, land use & culture on the Pondoland Wild Coast
- N Penn Khoisan, Trekboers and the land in the Cape Colony
- P Peters Foreign and national land appropriation and re-envisioning agricultural futures in Africa
- M Phiri The political economy of food security and production in South Africa
- M Pilane Platinum, custom and land rights
- S Pityana The Legacy of Land Dispossession in South Africa: To what extent does the Constitution facilitate or limit redress?
- S Rahlao Land use change and greenhouse gas emissions in South Africa
- M Ramphele The 1913 Land Act's dual legacy: Dispossession and subjugation
- M Ramutsindela Conservation: A de facto land reform ‘policy’?
- T Rapoo What’s in a ‘tribe’? The story of Bafokeng ‘imperialism’ over local communities
- A Ray Redressing dispossession: A comparative look at land claims in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA
- E Riedke Limited power through land – strengthening different bases of legitimacy and authority in the face of growing land disputes
- J Riordan The camera, trauma & the landscape
- S Robins The elephant in the (Lowveld) room? Eco-tourism-led development & the commodification of nature in Makuleke village, Limpopo Province
- M Roodt The implementation of the co-management of marine resources on the Transkei coast in terms of the Marine Living Resources Act of 1998 - the failure of Community-based Natural Resource Management
- L Royston Urban land reform; Incremental tenure - an alternative to title?
- E Rurangwa Land tenure reform: a case study of Rwanda
- K Russell The role of land reform in rule of law in democracy
- P Shabalala Matiwaneskop and the legacy of the 1913 Natives Land Act
- C Shackleton & S Shackleton Land and landscapes sustaining people: The importance of ecosystem services
- T Shapiro Action-research & lessons for framing and messaging: The case of closing the racial wealth gap initiative in the USA
- A Sihlangu The Manyeleti land claim and nature conservation
- B Sims Civil society and political leadership in Zimbabwe: Implications for land policy in SADC
- S Shirinda Reflections on the TCB Campaign in Limpopo
- J Sluysmans Land reform in the case law of the European Commission on Human Rights: Lessons for South Africa
- H Smith Mineral rights and land law, 1813-2013
- M Spierenburg and S Bologna False legitimacies and problem animals: The rhetoric of economic opportunities justiying the expansion of conservation areas in southern Africa
- P Stanford Farm scale and dairy farmers' responses to economic pressures: Implications for agrarian
- C Swart Public opinion on land reform
- S Swart “It is as bad to be a black man’s animal as it is to be a black man”– the politics of animals in the 1913 Land Act
- M Talbot & M Powell Can payments for ecosystem services help alleviate rural poverty & enhance the viability & sustainability of land & agrarian reform initiatives?
- B Tapela Gendered Struggles for Access to Water and Land in South Africa's Dam-Related Ecosystems: A Case for Water, Land and Agrarian Reform?
- G Thondhlana, G Cundill, L Sisitka, S Shackleton Land claims & collective management toward improved livelihoods in South Africa
- S Tongoane The story of Kalkfontein
- B Tontsi The Story of Cata
- D Troskie Sustainable commercial farming: Pressures and responses
- R Turner Continuing divisions: Tradition, land restitution & Barokologadi Communal identity
- H Twidle Histories of the African farm: Land and literary non-fiction from Sol Plaatje to Jonny Steinberg
- M Vandermerwe This is my land: Introductory and framing comments
- K van der Waal Capital, land, labour and the social in the Dwars River Valley, Cape Winelands
- L van der Watt Stuck on the wrong side of history? Contested settlements in the photographs of Jo Ractliffe
- R van Diemel Have you seen this Bill? Josiah T Gumede and the 1913 Land Act
- L van Robbroeck Displacing the subject: The postcolonial subject in Jane Alexander's photomontages
- S Verhoog The politics of land deals: A comparative analysis of global land policies on large-scale land acquisition
- C Walker Land, meaning and time: Reflections on the making and remaking of Cremin in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, 1912 - 2013
- H Walters The implementation of ESTA and the change in paternalism: The unintended consequences of a farmer’s legislated responsibility
- M Wegerif A letter home: Reflections from Tanzania on agrarian reform in South Africa
- L Weidmann Town proclamation & town land allocation in communal areas as a means of state
- A Westaway Post 1994 governance choices and policy prerogatives - The maintenance of the Bantustans
- W Wicomb The State v Gongqose and the meaning of a court case
- P Woodhouse Dual trajectories? Property and productivity in African natural resources
- L Wotshela Ciskei quitrent landholding & village system through sways of social change & contemporary land reform strategies
- Z Xego Tralso and the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve struggle
- O Zenker South African land restitution, white claimants and the fateful frontier of former KwaNdebele
- S Zuka The political economy of land reform in Malawi
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