Hybridity emergent: Geo-history, learning, and land restitution in South Africa

Fraser, Alistair

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.03.006

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“…Firstly, they exercise a gate-keeping function with regard to market access, since IA contracts state that agribusinesses provide training to small-scale producers in return for processing and marketing rights. This does not include transparency with regard to market prices and value adding activities further downstream in the value chain, of which producers often are not aware (Fraser, 2007a;Lahiff et al, 2012). Fraser (2007b) cautions that this may enable or induce agribusinesses to take advantage of small-scale farmers.…”

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confidence: 99%

3. Quality challenges and opportunities in the pineapple supply chain in Benin

Arinloye¹,

Boekel²

2016

Quality and Innovation in Food Chains

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Section: Keeping Up With Rising Quality Demands?mentioning

confidence: 99%

3. Quality challenges and opportunities in the pineapple supply chain in Benin

Arinloye¹,

Boekel²

2016

Quality and Innovation in Food Chains

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“…First, there is an apparent consensus among researchers that the whole land reform program in South Africa is dominated by an 'economic development' discourse (Philander and Rogerson 2001;MacDonald 2003:170;Fraser 2007a;Hall 2009;Ellis 2010). More often than not economic development in land reform projects in rural areas takes the form of a commercial farming enterprise, with the successful claimants either as owners or partners of those businesses.…”

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confidence: 99%

Land and Justice in South Africa: Exploring the Ambiguous Role of the State in the Land Claims Process

Kepe

2012

Afr Asian Stud

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In addition to challenges facing South Africa's overall post-apartheid land reform, group rural land claims have particularly proven difffĳicult to resolve. This paper explores the role that the state plays in shaping the outcomes of rural group land claims. It analyzes policy statements, including from policy documents, guidelines and speeches made by politicians during ceremonies to hand over land rights to rural claimants; seeking to understand the possible motives, factual correctness, as well as impact, of these statements on the trajectory of the settled land claims. The paper concludes that land reform as practiced in South Africa is functionally and discursively disembedded from socio-political histories of dispossession, because land has come to be treated more as a commodity, rather than as something that represents multiple meanings for diffferent segments of society. Like many processes leading up to a resolution of a rural claim, subsequent statements by government concerning particular 'successful' land claims convey an assumption that local claimants have received just redress; that there was local consensus on what form of land claim redress people wanted, and that the state's lead role in suggesting commercial farming or tourism as land use options for the new land rights holders is welcome. The paper shows that previous in-depth research on rural land claims proves that the state's role in the success or failure of rural land claims is controversial at best.

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“…Rather, the government has deemed that, for at least the next fifteen years, the beneficiaries must operate the land in partnership with white-owned agribusinesses with which they will form joint venture companies. The beneficiaries are not allowed to re-settle the land, nor use it as they see fit; the land will be formally theirs, they will receive a revenue stream from it, but the government is insisting that the land is managed in a way that it prefers; i.e., commercially and in partnership with experienced and white partners (Fraser 2007). The arrangement is uneven.…”

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“…One group of white farmers in Levubu with investments up and downstream of farming was especially keen to enter 15 into agreements that would provide secure access to a supply of raw materials to their factories as well as a market for their tree nurseries (Fraser 2007). They will share any farm-based profits and pay the beneficiaries an annual lease.…”

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