Between subsistence and corporate agriculture

Abstract

Beyond the ideological transition, South Africa's land, agrarian and territorial reforms represent primordial conditions related to its political, social and economic stabilization. However, 16 years after the end of apartheid, South Africa has not been able to erase the agricultural and territorial dualisms. Worse, they have been reinforced. On one hand, this paper argues that reforms, based on a liberalization of the sector accompanied solely by case-specific measures, have not contributed to overcoming the existing land, territorial and agricultural disparities. On the other hand, the renewed interest in agriculture at a global but also South African level results in corporate farming development, in particular within the traditionally white areas, leading to a reinforced concentration and dualism of the country's agricultural sector and territorial structure.