2019
DOI: 10.3390/land8110172
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Theories of Land Reform and Their Impact on Land Reform Success in Southern Africa

Abstract: Our purpose is to present and test a typology of land reform theories as a means of understanding and interrogating the motives behind land reform and to better equip land administrators and policymakers to enact land reform programs that are appropriate for their contexts. Here, land reform is understood to include the related concepts of land redistribution, land restitution, land tenure reform and land administration reform. The theory typology thus has application for land restitution programs specifically… Show more

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“…Firstly, it is worth highlighting that, for generations, customary land tenure has been the broad African view of land [12]. Equally noteworthy is that hardly any truly indigenous tenure system remains, and that current/modern versions of customary tenure are contaminated with traits of colonial, and in the South African case, apartheid administration and, it is argued, an associated feudal, anti-democratic version of customary land right, tenure, and administration [13].…”
Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Firstly, it is worth highlighting that, for generations, customary land tenure has been the broad African view of land [12]. Equally noteworthy is that hardly any truly indigenous tenure system remains, and that current/modern versions of customary tenure are contaminated with traits of colonial, and in the South African case, apartheid administration and, it is argued, an associated feudal, anti-democratic version of customary land right, tenure, and administration [13].…”
Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This alleged contamination forms the basis for land reform in most parts of southern Africa, including South Africa. Hull et al [12] describe three main land reform theories. On one end, there is conservative theory and on the other end is replacement theory, while adaptation theory is the hybrid of the two extreme cases.…”
Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, most customary law in Africa is not codified. Additionally, it is rarely binding beyond a particular community [19,20]. Customary land tenure can be understood as a social system and as a legal code, which can be referred to as the de facto situation, constituting the communally accepted rule that one has to follow for access to land, land use rights, and other interests [19].…”
Section: Understanding Land Grabbing and Customary Land Tenure In Africamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Policymakers, who usually depend on a thinking path, tend to rely on previous successful experiences to formulate relevant policies today, and they are not sensitive to the needs of the new land tenure system with the changing times [38]. Faced with the current incompatibility between rural land policies and the situation of economic development, the government has only tried to resolve the contradictions by means of local government funding.…”
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confidence: 99%