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Ian ScoonesProfessorial Fellow, STEPS Centre, the Institute of Development Studies, University of SussexVerified email at ids.ac.uk
Michael AliberUniversity of Fort HareVerified email at ufh.ac.za
Aninka ClaassensChief Researcher, Land and Accountability Research Centre, University of Cape TownVerified email at uct.ac.za
Sheona ShackletonUniversity of Cape Town and Rhodes University (Honorary Professor)Verified email at uct.ac.za
Charlie ShackletonDept of Environmental Science, Rhodes UniversityVerified email at ru.ac.za
Thembela KepeProfessor of Geography, Universisty of TorontoVerified email at utoronto.ca
Ruth HallInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, SouthVerified email at uwc.ac.za
Edward LahiffUniversity College, CorkVerified email at ucc.ie
Warren SmitSenior Researcher, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape TownVerified email at uct.ac.za
M. Timm HoffmanLeslie Hill Chair of Plant Conservation, University of Cape TownVerified email at uct.ac.za
Malcolm LangfordProfessor, University of OsloVerified email at jus.uio.no
Jocelyn AlexanderProfessor of Commonwealth Studies, University of OxfordVerified email at qeh.ox.ac.uk
Richard F (Rick) RohdeRough Bounds PublishingVerified email at ed.ac.uk
Andries du ToitPLAAS, University of the Western CapeVerified email at plaas.org.za
Hebinck, P.Associate Professor, Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, The NetherlandsVerified email at wur.nl
Saturnino ('Jun') M. Borras Jr.International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The HagueVerified email at iss.nl
Alex DubbInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian StudiesVerified email at plaas.org.za
Barbara Van KoppenPrincipal Researcher International Water Management Institute, based in PretoriaVerified email at cgiar.org
mike mullerVIsiting Adjunct Professor, University of the WitwatersrandVerified email at wits.ac.za
Rick de SatgeSenor research associate Phuhlisani NPCVerified email at phuhlisani.org.za

Ben Cousins

Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape

Verified email at plaas.org.za

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The role of land-based strategies in rural livelihoods: the contribution of arable production, animal husbandry and natural resource harvesting in communal areas in South Africa CM Shackleton, SE Shackleton, B Cousins Development Southern Africa 18 (5), 581-604, 2001	397	2001
Formalisation of land rights in the South: An overview E Sjaastad, B Cousins Land use policy 26 (1), 1-9, 2009	331	2009
More than socially embedded: the distinctive character of ‘communal tenure’regimes in South Africa and its implications for land policy B Cousins Journal of Agrarian Change 7 (3), 281-315, 2007	280	2007
Contested paradigms of ‘viability’in redistributive land reform: perspectives from southern Africa B Cousins, I Scoones The Journal of Peasant Studies 37 (1), 31-66, 2010	239	2010
Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’in S outh A frica B Cousins Journal of Agrarian change 13 (1), 116-139, 2013	237	2013
What is a smallholder? Class-analytic perspectives on small-scale farming and agrarian reform in South Africa B Cousins PLAAS, Working paper nº, 2010	237	2010
Land, power & custom: Controversies generated by South Africa's communal land rights act A Claassens, B Cousins Juta and Company Ltd, 2008	204	2008
L ivelihoods after L and R eform in S outh A frica M Aliber, B Cousins Journal of Agrarian Change 13 (1), 140-165, 2013	195	2013
Will formalising property rights reduce poverty in South Africa’s ‘second economy’? B Cousins, T Cousins, D Hornby, R Kingwill, L Royston, W Smit Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005	184	2005
An overview of Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe: editorial introduction L Cliffe, J Alexander, B Cousins, R Gaidzanwa Journal of Peasant Studies 38 (5), 907-938, 2011	181	2011
The Dynamics of Social Differentiation in the Communal Lands of Zimbabwe B Cousins, D Weiner, N Amin Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, 1990	181*	1990
Re-valuing the communal lands of southern Africa: new understandings of rural livelihoods S Shackleton, C Shackleton, B Cousins Natural Resource Perspectives 62, 1-4, 2000	176	2000
Agrarian reform and the ‘two economies’: transforming South Africa’s countryside B Cousins The land question in South Africa: the challenge of transformation and …, 2005	170	2005
How do rights become real?: Formal and informal institutions in South Africa's land reform B Cousins IDS Bulletin 28 (4), 59-68, 1997	169	1997
Introduction: Agrarian Change, Rural Poverty and Land Reform in S outh A frica since 1994 B O'Laughlin, H Bernstein, B Cousins, PE Peters Journal of Agrarian Change 13 (1), 1-15, 2013	155	2013
Invisible capital: The contribution of communal rangelands to rural livelihoods in South Africa B Cousins Development Southern Africa 16 (2), 299-318, 1999	153	1999
Smallholder Aagriculture and land reform in South Africa E Lahiff, B Cousins Institute of Development Studies, 2005	151	2005
Tenure and common property resources in Africa. B Cousins	141	2000
Water security in South Africa M Muller, B Schreiner, L Smith, B van Koppen, H Sally, M Aliber, ... Development Planning Division. Working Paper Series 12, 2009	132	2009
Historical and contemporary land use and the desertification of the Karoo MT Hoffman, B Cousins, T Meyer, A Petersen, H Hendricks The Karoo: Ecological patterns and processes, 257-273, 1999	124	1999

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