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Michael AliberUniversity of Fort HareVerified email at ufh.ac.za
Ian ScoonesProfessorial Fellow, STEPS Centre, the Institute of Development Studies, University of SussexVerified email at ids.ac.uk
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
Jocelyn AlexanderProfessor of Commonwealth Studies, University of OxfordVerified email at qeh.ox.ac.uk
Malcolm LangfordProfessor, University of OsloVerified email at jus.uio.no
Hebinck, P.Associate Professor, Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, The NetherlandsVerified email at wur.nl
Richard F (Rick) RohdeRough Bounds PublishingVerified email at ed.ac.uk
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
Andries du ToitPLAAS, University of the Western CapeVerified email at plaas.org.za
Rick de SatgeSenor research associate Phuhlisani NPCVerified email at phuhlisani.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

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	400	2001
Formalisation of land rights in the South: An overview E Sjaastad, B Cousins Land use policy 26 (1), 1-9, 2009	335	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	282	2007
What is a smallholder? Class-analytic perspectives on small-scale farming and agrarian reform in South Africa B Cousins PLAAS, Working paper nº, 2010	241	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	239	2013
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	236	2010
Land, power & custom: Controversies generated by South Africa's communal land rights act A Claassens, B Cousins Juta and Company Ltd, 2008	203	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	198	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	185	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	180	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	180*	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	177	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	168	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	166	2013
Invisible capital: The contribution of communal rangelands to rural livelihoods in South Africa B Cousins Development Southern Africa 16 (2), 299-318, 1999	152	1999
Smallholder agriculture and land reform in South Africa E Lahiff, B Cousins IDS Bulletin 36 (2), 127-131, 2005	149	2005
Tenure and common property resources in Africa. B Cousins	139	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	130	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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