IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/iaaeo3/197294.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Role of the Market in Effecting a More Equitable Distribution of Land

Author

Listed:
  • Behrmann, H. I.

Abstract

European settlement in South Africa dates from the occupation of the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. After the British occupation in 1806, former Dutch colonists established independent Republics which united with the British colonies to form the Union of South Africa in 1910, later to become a Republic in 1961. The greater part of the farmland at the time of the Union was held by Europeans, and the Africans who did not remain to work on European owned farmland were confined to tribal reserves. Under the Natives' Land Act of 1913, segregation was adopted, and Africans were no longer permitted to be share or cash renters on European farmland, nor could Europeans gain title to land set aside for Africans. The Natives' Trust and Land Act of 1936 provided for a transfer of 6 million hectares of land to Africans to compensate them for their loss of land rights and voting rights based on ownership of property, which were removed in other legislation in the same year. This paper examines the role that the market could play in alleviating the inequity that may have arisen in land allocation. If institutional constraints are to be removed through the political process, the market may serve as the indicator of the steps that may be taken.

Suggested Citation

  • Behrmann, H. I., 1983. "The Role of the Market in Effecting a More Equitable Distribution of Land," 1983 Occasional Paper Series No. 3 197294, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaaeo3:197294
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.197294
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197294/files/agecon-occpapers-1983-022_1_.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.197294?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. W. L. Nieuwoudt, 1980. "Value and Rent of Farm Land," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 48(4), pages 249-254, December.
    2. Kenneth H. Parsons, 1974. "The Institutional Basis of an Agricultural Market Economy," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(4), pages 737-757, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Behrmann, H.I., 1987. "Rural Poverty and Nutrition in Southern Africa," 1987 Occasional Paper Series No. 4 197393, International Association of Agricultural Economists.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Bown, A.N. & Ortmann, G.F. & Darroch, M.A.G., 1999. "Use Of Maize Marketing Alternatives And Price Risk Management Tools By Commercial Maize Farmers In South Africa," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 38(3).
    2. G. F. Ortmann, 1987. "Land Rents and Production Costs in the South African Sugar Industry," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 55(3), pages 163-169, September.
    3. Cramb, Rob A., 1993. "The Evolution of Property Rights to Land in Sarawak: An Institutionalist Perspective," Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 61(02-2), pages 1-12, August.
    4. Lyne, M. C. & Thomson, D. N. & Ortmann, G. F., 1996. "Institutional Change To Promote Land Rental Markets I In The Developing Regions Of Southern Africa," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 35(1), March.
    5. van der Riet, D. F. & Darroch, M. A. G., 1993. "Impact On Land Prices Of Export Demand For South African Deciduous Fruit: 1972-1992," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 32(4), December.
    6. Sparks, G.D. & Ortmann, Gerald F. & Lagrange, L., 2010. "An Economic Evaluation of Soybean-Based Biodiesel Production on Commercial Farms in the Soybean-Producing Regions of KwaZulu-Natal: Some Preliminary Results," 2010 AAAE Third Conference/AEASA 48th Conference, September 19-23, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa 95980, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
    7. Simms, P., 1996. "A Financial Model To Fund Land Redistribution In The Sugar Industry Of Kwazulu-Natal," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 35(4), December.
    8. Stent, W.R., 1976. "Critique Of The Methodology Of Australian Agricultural Economics," Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 20(1), pages 1-18, April.
    9. Hardmann, PA & Darroch, MAG & Ortmann, GF, 2003. "Evaluating Potential Investments In The Pink Lady Apple Cultivar Under Uncertainty And Irreversibility," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 42(3).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Land Economics/Use; Public Economics;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:iaaeo3:197294. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iaaeeea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.