Land reform and changing gender patterns in rural farmland ownership
SOURCE: Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2018
TITLE AUTHOR(S): T.G.B.Hart, M.Chandia, P.T.Jacobs
KEYWORDS: GENDER EQUALITY, LAND OWNERSHIP, LAND REFORM, WOMEN
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10631
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/12938
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12938
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2018
TITLE AUTHOR(S): T.G.B.Hart, M.Chandia, P.T.Jacobs
KEYWORDS: GENDER EQUALITY, LAND OWNERSHIP, LAND REFORM, WOMEN
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10631
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/12938
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/12938
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Abstract
The implementation of land reform in SouthAfrica intends to bring about equity and equality but has encountered unanticipated or unplanned outcomes that have unforeseen effects for the various actors involved, particularly women. In this paper, we focus on the emerging patterns in gender ownership of farmland made available through the farmland redistribution programme. Analysing data from a mixed methods approach that used a household survey instrument and was followed up with individual and group interviews, we examine the outcomes and consequences of land redistribution with respect to the gender ownership of redistributed land. The findings provisionally indicate that the farmland redistribution programme has influences ownership patterns that tend to include women into joint land ownership agreements alongside men in far greater numbers than women-only headed households. A review of policy interventions indicates that this joint ownership outcome was never proposed. It has its own consequences with regard to de jure and de facto ownership of and access to farmland. Furthermore, it is in stark contrast to the policy idea of increasing redistributed land ownership exclusively for women in order to address gender imbalances within land ownership by black farmers. Despite differences across provinces, men as individual owners are the main beneficiaries of land redistribution. Women tend to enter into arrangements with men to acquire land so that they can meet the own-contribution requirements of the redistribution applications. In doing so they now have legal rights, as opposed to customary and common law rights, to this land. The effect of these changing land ownership relationships and patterns requires deeper research across these and other areas of South Africa especially with regard to gender ownership and gender livelihoods at household level.-
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