Exploring options in reforming South African land ownership: Opportunities for sharing land, labour and expertise

Dlamini, Thula S.; Verschoor, Aart-Jan; Fraser, Gavin

doi:10.1080/03031853.2013.770951

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“…There is significant evidence that documents how commercial farming skills among black farmers have been lost over time (see, Dlamini, Verschoor & Fraser, 2013;Schirmer, 2015).…”

Section: The Need For Training Among Land Reform Beneficiariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This research note provides a closer look at land reform beneficiary trainings in South African land reform. It was motivated by the existing evidence pointing to a lack of competent farming skills in emerging farmers as one of the causes of the failure of land reform farms (Dlamini et al, 2013;Schirmer, 2015). Through a review of the relevant literature, we highlighted the need to train the land reform beneficiaries as well as the important aspects the training should cover.…”

Section: Lessons From Administered Trainingsmentioning

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A review of the land reform beneficiary training in South Africa: The role of agricultural extension

Zantsi¹,

Nengovhela²

2022

S Afr. Jnl. Agric. Ext.

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Lack of competent commercial farming skills in emerging farmers is identified as one of the reasons for poor productivity on redistributed commercial farms. To address this shortcoming, the government and non-governmental organisations spend significant amounts of money providing a range of beneficiary training. However, very few objective studies exist that report how these pieces of training occur and how they are performed. This research aims to provide an initial basic understanding of the requirements and loopholes in the land reform beneficiary trainings, paving the way for future studies. The objective was to identify and discuss the role of agricultural extension in administering these beneficiary trainings. These objectives were achieved by critically reviewing the relevant literature, policy documents, and some relevant official statistics. In our synthesis of the literature, we identified key attributes for a competent commercial farmer which are: the need to know how to adopt, regularly, new technology, new production processes, and new marketing arrangements, while continuing to take a calculated risk and have sound business and financial management skills. We then assessed these attributes to all small-scale farmers and land reform beneficiaries and found little theoretical evidence of such. However, some of the beneficiary trainings converge with the key commercial farmer competencies but others were missing. There were significant discrepancies in the beneficiary training expenditure and few details of the service providers and skills supplied.

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“…There is significant evidence that documents how commercial farming skills among black farmers have been lost over time (see, Dlamini, Verschoor & Fraser, 2013;Schirmer, 2015).…”

Section: The Need For Training Among Land Reform Beneficiariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Lessons From Administered Trainingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of the land reform beneficiary training in South Africa: The role of agricultural extension

Zantsi¹,

Nengovhela²

2022

S Afr. Jnl. Agric. Ext.

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“…Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture [APLRA], 2019; Xaba, 2020). Various factors are cited for this poor performance on redistributed farms, with the poor selection of beneficiaries commonly cited (see Sebola, 2018;Dlamini et al, 2013). Cousins (2016) has blamed this for the failure of policy to acknowledge and embrace diversity in the group of smallholders intended as land redistribution beneficiaries.…”

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A typology of emerging farmers in three rural provinces of South Africa: what are the implications for the land redistribution policy?

Zantsi

Pienaar²,

Greyling

2021

IJSE

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PurposeUnderstanding diversity amongst potential beneficiaries of land redistribution is of critical importance for both design and planning of successful land reform interventions. This study seeks to add to the existing literature on farming types, with specific emphasis on understanding diversity within a sub-group of commercially oriented or emerging smallholders.Design/methodology/approachUsing a multivariate statistical analysis – principal component and cluster analyses applied to a sample of 442 commercially-oriented smallholders – five distinct clusters of emerging farmers are identified, using variables related to farmers' characteristics, income and expenditure and farm production indicators and willingness to participate in land redistribution. The five clusters are discussed in light of a predefined selection criteria that is based on the current policies and scholarly thinking.FindingsThe results suggest that there are distinct differences in farming types, and each identified cluster of farmers requires tailored support for the effective implementation of land reform. The identified homogenous sub-groups of smallholders, allows us to understand which farmers could be a better target for a successful land redistribution policy.Originality/valueMost of the existing typology studies in South Africa tend to focus on general smallholders and in the Eastern Cape province; this study extends the literature by focussing on specific prime beneficiaries of land reform in three provinces. This study uses a more detailed dataset than the Statistics general and agricultural household surveys.

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Agriculture in a Developmental State: Finding the Nexus for Development(al) Agricultural Economists

Makhura

2016

Agrekon

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Exploring options in reforming South African land ownership: Opportunities for sharing land, labour and expertise

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

A review of the land reform beneficiary training in South Africa: The role of agricultural extension

A review of the land reform beneficiary training in South Africa: The role of agricultural extension

A typology of emerging farmers in three rural provinces of South Africa: what are the implications for the land redistribution policy?

Agriculture in a Developmental State: Finding the Nexus for Development(al) Agricultural Economists

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