@article{ref1,
title="Fighting fire with a broken teacup: a comparative analysis of South Africa's land‐redistribution program",
journal="Geographical review",
year="2008",
author="Moseley, William G. and McCusker, Brent",
volume="98",
number="3",
pages="322-338",
abstract="Since the rise of its first democratically elected government in 1994, South Africa has sought to redress its highly inequitable land distribution through a series of land-reform programs. In this study we examine land-redistribution efforts in two of South Africa's provinces, the Western Cape and Limpopo. By analyzing a cross-section of projects in these two locales we develop a political ecology of stymied land-reform possibilities to explain the limited progress to date. Given South Africa's ambitious goal of redistributing 30 percent of its white-owned land by 2014 and the incremental and flawed nature of its redistribution program, we argue that the process is like trying to put out a fire with a broken teacup. Our results are based on interviews with policymakers, commercial farmers, and land-redistribution beneficiaries, as well as on an analysis of land-use change in Limpopo Province.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0016-7428",
doi="10.1111/j.1931-0846.2008.tb00304.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2008.tb00304.x"
}