Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS) / This research places in context a proposed case study of land and property rights of a dispossessed Stockenström (Eastern Cape) community forcibly removed to Friemersheim (Western Cape) during the apartheid era, between 1985 and 1986. This dispossessed community has yet to receive appropriate compensation for that expropriation in the form of restoration of their property rights. This study examines the specifics of the legislative framework, which underpinned the circumstances of their land expropriation, as well as the pattern of land dispossession in South Africa during this era. To this end, it examines the impact of land-related apartheid legislation, which directly and indirectly influenced this community. It focuses on discussions, many of the parliamentary proclamations and statutes such as those passed in 1913, and beyond, which provided the legal context for large-scale land grabs, and contrasts these with the post-1994 land reformation programme. Finally, this research examines the practical implementation of the 1994 land reform programme, especially the component of restitution, with particular reference to the displaced Stockenström community who find themselves facing huge challenges in a democratic South Africa, even after they applied the new rights accorded to them in the land reform programme. It outlines the significance of the new legislative rights conferred on those dispossessed and tracks their land claims successes and failures.

Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS) / Land reform can be an effective vehicle for addressing poverty and landlessness, especially in rural areas where these are prevailing conditions. For land reform to succeed, the land must be used in ways that contributes to improving the livelihoods of land beneficiaries. The literature over the past 2 decades largely focuses on the failure of land reform in South Africa. Little is known about the 10% of successful projects that exist. The argument of this research project is that it is equally important to analyse how successful land reform projects have redressed racial imbalances in land, reduced poverty, improved livelihoods, developed the agricultural sector to create jobs, and ensured food security. It is essential for the well-being of the country to find successful land reform models to implement. By critically evaluating successful land reform projects, important insights and lessons in building a more effective land reform and rural development programme in South Africa may be offered. The focus of the research is on the redistributive component of land reform, specifically the successful redistribution of agricultural land to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor. The research critically analyses the successful Harmony Trust land reform project located in the Koue Bokkeveld region in the Western Cape Province. The Harmony Trust project is a share equity project and farms profitably in a joint venture with a commercial partner, who also serves as the mentor. Livelihoods of the land reform beneficiaries have improved; for example, the beneficiaries were empowered, redistribution of benefits took place, and living and working conditions have improved.

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaves 73-75. / by Oscar Fernández Taranco. / M.C.P.

Orientador: Maria Orlanda Pinassi / Banca: Maria Ribeiro do Valle / Banca: Frederico Daia Firmiano / Banca: Vera Navarro / Banca: Adriano dos Santos / Banca: Fatima Aparecida Cabral / Resumo: A partir dos anos de 1970, no ponto mais alto de sua expansão, o capital passa a enfrentar crises cíclicas cada vez mais freqüentes que expressam a dimensão estrutural dos limites do capital. O mundo capitalista entrou em uma profunda recessão, que combinou baixas taxas de crescimento com altas taxas inflacionárias, abrindo terreno para operar uma reestruturação produtiva, aplicando o receituário neoliberal. No Brasil, a reestruturação política e produtiva se fez sentir já no final da década de 1980; no campo, os capitais da agricultura/agropecuária foram operados na adequação à reestruturação produtiva, provocando importantes modificações na viragem da década de 1980 para 1990. Foi, porém, a partir de 1999 que os agronegócios ganharam importância decisiva no conjunto da economia brasileira. Mas não foi somente aí que a reestruturação produtiva operou, deu-se também no âmbito da agricultura familiar que, progressivamente, foi plenamente integrada à lógica e dinâmica do agronegócio, afastando a reforma agrária e sua perspectiva de mudanças estruturais. Porém, o padrão de violência contra os trabalhadores rurais é revelador de como a questão agrária nunca esteve perto de uma solução pela via da conciliação de classes. Por outro lado, o enquadramento da reforma agrária representou um retrocesso para os assentamentos, do ponto de vista da consciência política de seus integrantes, bem como na garantia efetiva das conquistas sociais, que somente têm sido obtidas, a partir do enfren... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: From the 1970s onwards, at the highest point of its expansion, capital starts to face increasingly frequent cyclical crises that express the structural dimension of the limits of capital. The capitalist world entered into a deep recession, which combined low rates of growth with high inflationary rates, opening the way to operate a productive restructuring, applying the neoliberal recipe. In Brazil, political and productive restructuring was felt in the late 1980s; in the countryside, agricultural / agricultural capitals were operated to adapt to productive restructuring, causing important changes at the turn of the 1980s to 1990. However, since 1999, agribusinesses have gained decisive importance in the Brazilian economy as a whole. But it was not only there that the productive restructuring operated, it was also within the scope of family agriculture that, progressively, was fully integrated with the logic and dynamics of agribusiness, moving away agrarian reform and its perspective of structural changes. However, the pattern of violence against rural workers is revealing of how the agrarian question has never been close to a solution through class reconciliation. On the other hand, the framing of the agrarian reform represented a setback for the settlements, from the point of view of the political consciousness of its members, as well as in the effective guarantee of the social achievements that have only been obtained, from the confrontation of classes. The totalizing control of capital impedes any expectation of autonomy, even among those who hold part of the means of production, as is the case of the settlers, placing them in a generalized condition of proletarianization. In the present research I analyzed the thematic from a theoretical study and field research, carried out with 100 people from MST camps, settlements and leaderships in the state of São Paulo... (Abstract complet, click electronic access below) / Doutor

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<p>This study identifies and discusses the challenges of negotiation as a conflict management tool with reference to the negotiation process of the land conflict in the Mulanje district of Malawi between tea companies and the villagers who live around the tea estates. Although the negotiation process started on 15th January 2000, there were no expected outcomes as of end of October 2008. In order to identify the challenges of the negotiation process, the study has specifically provided in-depth analyses of the land conflict and the negotiation process in Mulanje. The study consequently has recommended, among other things, the introduction of conflict transformation initiatives as a way of mending the relationship between the conflicting parties, institutionalization of conflict management training, review of the role of government and strategic cooperation of stakeholders in addressing the structural causes of conflicts among other recommendations.</p>

Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of History, 2009. / "May, 2009." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 11/27/2009) Advisor, Kevin Kern; Committee members, Lesley J. Gordon, Kim M. Gruenwald, Elizabeth Mancke, Randy Mitchell, Gregory Wilson; Department Chair, Michael M. Sheng; Dean of the College, Chand Midha; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

published_or_final_version / Comparative Asian Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Comparative Asian Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Comparative Asian Studies / Master / Master of Arts