Mapping stakeholder positions in the Kenyan land reform process

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
O. A. K’Akumu
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Reform Process

scholarly journals How to understand, evaluate and influence efficient progress in South Africa’s land reform process: A typology from historical lessons from selected sub-Saharan African countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nhlanhla C. Mbatha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Black Farmers ◽  
Sub Saharan

Background: With reports of widespread failures in South Africa’s land reform programmes, the levels of policy uncertainty in the political rhetoric that influences land reform have been increasing. Since 1994 policy targets to transfer land to black farmers have not been met. Of the 2005 target to transfer about 25 million ha of commercial farmland to black farmers by 2014, less than 5 million ha. have been transferred for commercial use. Some studies report failure rates in resettlement projects of up to 90%. To account for the failures, revisions of policies and amendments to legislations have been proposed within a political environment that is becoming increasingly intolerant to slow progress in land transfers and to resettlement failures.Aim: Against this environment, this paper presents a typology for understanding and evaluating important elements of the land reform project in order to influence progress in the process.Setting: The study adopts a historical review of land reform processes in post-colonial Kenya and Zimbabwe in order to identify potential challenges and key lessons for South Africa.Methods: Hence, using institutional and historical analytical lenses in exploring different narratives, the paper reviews reported failures and successes in land reform policy cases from the selected countries. From an institutional framework, prevalent social institutions and key lessons from Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa, a typology for evaluating important elements of the land reform process in South Africa is developed and discussed. Additionally, a review of global data collected on average sizes of farms in different regions of the world is provided as evidence to support propositions of what would constitute efficient farmland size ranges for small to medium commercial farms in South Africa.Results and conclusion: A proposition is made on how to use the typology to guide policy and research interventions to reduce failures and promote successful cases in different areas of the land reform process in South Africa, and possibly other similar contexts.

scholarly journals Improving Governance of Tenure in Policy and Practice: A Conceptual Basis to Analyze Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Multi-Stakeholder Transformative Governance Illustrated with an Example from South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 9901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisa J.M. Jansen ◽  
Patrick P. Kalas
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
National Level ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Stakeholder Partnerships ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Governance Arrangements

Tenure governance is a complex and multi-dimensional issue that requires cross-sectoral and holistic approaches, gathering the resources, information and expert skills of a variety of actors while exploring innovative, polycentric multi-stakeholder governance arrangements to address collective action challenges. To do this, multi-stakeholder partnerships are formed where public and private partners pool their resources and competencies to address mutual goals more effectively. A coherent theoretical framework to analyze multi-stakeholder partnerships as part of multi-stakeholder governance is presented based on internal conditions and the external environment. The paper expands existing frameworks to analyze multi-stakeholder partnerships through introducing a new element the deliberative capacity, a decisive success factor for the effectiveness of multi-stakeholder partnerships for multi-stakeholder transformative governance at the national level. Moreover, the practical applicability of this expanded framework is illustrated in a real case example in South Africa. This country-driven, inclusive multi-stakeholder partnership process, which integrates a variety of actors in collective decision-making on the land reform process as part of a multi-stakeholder governance process, is used as an illustration of the above framework. Such a partnership linked to multi-stakeholder governance is the key instrument to attain agreement and recognition for the dedicated implementation and monitoring of the ‘Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security’ (VGGT). The investment made by the different stakeholders in this organically constituted partnership may add to a greater transformative potential in the VGGT implementation and monitoring process, and the probability that the situation on the ground will change sustainably given the explicit linkage to national governance arrangements.

Stakeholder Approach for Land Reform Programme to Enhance Access and Equity

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-63
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Stakeholder Approach ◽  
Reform Program ◽  
Access And Equity ◽  
The Government

Globally, the land is a valuable resource. Many years of colonialism resulted in the majority of the population having no access to agricultural land especially in many African countries, and Namibia is no exception. Today, land access and equity are burning issues. Hence, adopting a qualitative research approach and data collection with a non-random purposive sample of 60 respondents' through questionnaires, interviews, and secondary data to investigate how the stakeholder approach can facilitate the effective implementation of the land reform program to enhance access and equity in Namibia. The paper examines challenges faced in implementing the land reform program, determine the level of stakeholder participation, and develop strategies based on the stakeholder approach for improved implementation of the land reform program. Findings reflect that stakeholders felt that the government is not consulting them enough and that is the reason why the land reform process has failed to enhance access and equity and is lacks the pace to the detriment of the landless majority.

The State, Relational Governance, and Nomad Sedentarization: Land Reform in Inner Mongolia, 1900–1911

2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 714-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liping Wang
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Relational Governance ◽  
State Expansion ◽  
State Process ◽  
Qing Government ◽  
State Centralization

AbstractThis article is a study of the Inner Mongolian land reform undertaken by the Qing government in the last decade of its rule. Instead of portraying land reform as a state process of taming and transforming nomads, I examine the metamorphosis of the multi-ethnic governing relationships enabled by the reform. The frontier governance system on which I focus consisted of coalitions and conflicts among four key players: Mongol banners, neighboring Han Chinese provinces, the Court of Dependencies, and frontier military governors. By elucidating the changing relationships that bound these players together, I pinpoint the most significant agendas of land reform, how the Mongols' position vis-à-vis state agencies changed throughout the reform process, and to what extent these changes resulted in state centralization. My study illuminates a variety of topics, including nomad sedentarization, frontier politics, and modern state expansion.

From jambanja to planning: the reassertion of technocracy in land reform in south-eastern Zimbabwe?

2003 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Chaumba ◽  
Ian Scoones ◽  
William Wolmer
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
And Control

This paper examines the land occupations and fast-track resettlement process in Chiredzi district in Zimbabwe's southeast lowveld, and argues that their broad-brush representation as chaotic, violent and unplanned is misleading. In Zimbabwe the instruments and mechanisms of order assert themselves even in the midst of violent disorder. The on-going deployment of the formal and technical tools and discourses of land-use planning have been instrumental in securing the visibility and legitimacy of Zimbabwe's new settlers. The speed and short cuts of the fast-track land reform process and vagueness of policies to date have in the short term opened up a certain amount of space for negotiation and a degree of leeway and flexibility in land-use planning and allocation. But the danger for the settlers is that, by deploying a discourse rooted in long-held and institutionally embedded Rhodesian traditions of planning and control, they have played into a process that – as so often in Zimbabwe's history – will re-impose coercive land-use regulations that are at odds with their livelihood strategies and seek to vet settlers and so undermine populist claims of redressing inequalities and providing land to the landless and poor.

Natural resource degradation effects of poverty and population growth are largely policy-induced: the case of Colombia

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Heath ◽  
Hans Binswanger
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Population Pressure ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Natural Resource Use ◽  
Resource Degradation ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACTThe sustainability of natural resource use is influenced by population pressure, but this exercises a much less critical impact than the overall policy framework. In Colombia, various agricultural and other policies whose effect is to constrain the poor's access to land encourage environmental degradation. A case is made in favour of the new land reform process that Colombia is launching.

scholarly journals Agrarian Reform Policy in Brazil: Trajectory of a Decadence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Sabourin
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Official Statistic ◽  
Reform Policy ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The Past

In Brazil, during the four last administrations of Worker’s Party (PT) 2003-2015, the support to the agrarian reform seems to have stagnated, even with the influence of landless workers' movements. Thus in 2016, the impeachment President Dilma Roussef have marked a brutal stop in the agrarian reform process. How to explain that which seems at first to be a contradiction and has become a decadence of an important federal public policy?. Furthermore, how can we evaluate the debates within Brazilian society and the federal government on this theme? The article analyzes the tensions, debates, advances and impasses of the past fifteen years of agrarian reform policy in Brazil looking at the interaction between social movements and public policies. The method associates bibliography, official statistic synthesis and research results in Northeast, Amazônia and Cerrado regions among several projects. The first part results put on evidence the crescent reduction of agrarian reform settlements and beneficiary families since 2006. The second part presents the main reasons offering an analysis of government and society debates in Brazil about land reform. The analysis conclude to the less of power and representation in the society of the pro agrarian reform large and popular coalition.

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