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In South Africa, land and agrarian reform policy is presently being developed as a top down exercise increasingly informed by a neo-liberal macroeconomic policy orientation. In the book, this elite driven transition is contrasted with a proposed popular program of radical transformation. The specific role of the World Bank is criticized, and the results of a uniquely participatory research and policy development project recently undertaken in Mpumalanga Province (formerly the Eastern Transvaal) are presented. The book demonstrates why incorporating indigenous local knowledge already "at work" in poor rural areas into development of land and agrarian reform policies is essential for truly democratic social and economic transformation. This is an important book that will be useful for policy-makers, academics and the general public alike.
Daniel Weiner is an associate professor of Geography at West Virginia University and received his Ph. D, in Geography from Clark University. He has written extensively on rural development in Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa. His research includes energy use in Agriculture, the political ecology of land use, and geographic information systems (GIS0 and society.
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