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

Henrik Wiig and Henning Øien
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Henrik Wiig: Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research
Henning Øien: University of Oslo

Chapter 4 in Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa, 2013, pp 80-104 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Small Farm; Farm Size; Large Farm; Market Imperfection; Land Reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137343819_4

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