Pastures of plenty?: Land rights and community-based agriculture in Peddie, a former homeland town in South Africa

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• 作者：Alec Thornton
• 关键词：Community-based ; Food security ; Homeland ; Inequality ; Land use ; Poverty alleviation ; South Africa ; Urban and peri-urban agriculture
• 刊名：Applied Geography
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：January 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：29
• 期：1
• 页码：12-20
• 全文大小：418 K

文摘

The post-apartheid South African government has emphasized land reallocation in key national policy documents as a means to address apartheid-era legacies of poverty and inequality in the former homelands (black reserves). In this paper, a case study of the Masizame Community Garden Project in Peddie, a small former homeland town, explores the issue of group ownership rights of commonage for poverty alleviation purposes. Poor communication, commitment to gender empowerment and limited transparency of land application processes at different levels of government emerged as key issues that continue to frustrate attempts by local people to secure ownership rights of vacant municipal commonage to earn a livelihood.