Incomplete and inaccurate official data provides fertile ground for radical statements.
- Director of the Bureau for Economic Research, Stellenbosch University
South Africa’s land reform minister should be distributing land owned by the government to black farmers rather than fussing about new laws.
Business confidence surveys provide early signals of economic trends long before the official statistics.
Meat from sheep that graze in South Africa’s Karoo and France’s Mont Saint-Michel lamb is deemed special.
Almost 25% of all farmland previously owned by white landowners has been restored, redistributed to black South Africans, or moved away to state ownership.
The South African government must act on the ineffective and politics-ridden system of land leases and ensure that beneficiaries are getting secure land rights.
The Land Bank played a crucial role in the growth and development of South African agriculture. It can do the same for upcoming black farmers, but its business and funding model must be changed.
The government’s approach to redistributing farmland has been mostly ineffective. Failure can be attributed to limited implementation, poor institutional capacity and corruption.
Consensus is the first step towards solving problems - but it’s been hard to reach.
Based on official statistics, we conclude that the country has made more progress towards land reform than is generally suggested.
Subsidies for black farmers in South Africa would build a new ‘crop’ of commercially oriented farmers.
Eliminating the divide between commercial agriculture (mainly white) and subsistence farming (mainly black) requires effective public policy and the right incentives.
The important developmental role that intermediate city municipalities can play in creating employment and stimulating growth suggests they should be prioritised.
An agency could accelerate land reform by removing the process from political and bureaucratic control.
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Taking a look at food supply chains in South Africa during the lockdown.
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