To stimulate innovation in the agriculture sector education and training is in dire need of substantial reform for greater integration, cooperation and accountability.
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South Africa should review its rural development strategy and land reform policy to win the fight against rising poverty.
The conventional view is that insecurity of land tenure results from the lack of a registered title deed which records the property rights of occupants of land or housing.
After South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.
Has South Africa’s constitutional project failed? Is the country’s constitution an obstacle to meaningful redistribution and land reform?
Many African countries are still searching for inclusive commercial farming models that can bring in private investment without dispossessing local people.
The ecological needs of the land need to be considered together with the social and political needs of its people.
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Fort Hare
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Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, The Open University
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Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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SA UK Bilateral Research Professor in Political Theory, Wits and Cambridge, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of History, University of Botswana
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Researcher at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel
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Sociology Lecturer, University of Namibia
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Associate professor, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor, University of Ghana
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Research Fellow in Residence with focus on Future Africa at the Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, SOAS, University of London