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Mendez-Barrientos L. E., Kemerink J. S., Wester P., Molle François. (2018). Commercial farmers' strategies to control water resources in South Africa : an empirical view of reform. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 34 (2), p. 245-258. ISSN 0790-0627.

Titre du document
Commercial farmers' strategies to control water resources in South Africa : an empirical view of reform
Année de publication
2018
Type de document
Article référencé dans le Web of Science WOS:000423851700008
Auteurs
Mendez-Barrientos L. E., Kemerink J. S., Wester P., Molle François
Source
International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2018, 34 (2), p. 245-258 ISSN 0790-0627
This article shows how large-scale commercial farmers, individually and collectively, are responding to land and water reform processes in the Thukela River basin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. With a high degree of innovative agency, commercial farmers have effectively executed four strategies, enabling them to adapt and use their access to resources to neutralize multiple water reform efforts that once promised to be catalysts for inclusive change in the post-apartheid era. It is likely that policy alone will not facilitate the envisioned transformation, if local practices are not sufficiently understood and anticipated by the governmental officials charged with the implementation of water reform processes.
Plan de classement
Hydrologie [062] ; Economie et sociologie rurale [098]
Description Géographique
AFRIQUE DU SUD
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010072068]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010072068
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