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Acquired land was used mostly for raising livestock rather than growing fruit, vegetables or field crops. Peter Titmuss/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The South African government has been buying farmland for black farmers. It’s not gone well

Johann Kirsten, Stellenbosch University; Aart-Jan Verschoor, Agricultural Research Council, and Colleta Gandidzanwa, University of Pretoria

The government’s approach to redistributing farmland has been mostly ineffective. Failure can be attributed to limited implementation, poor institutional capacity and corruption.

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