Mendez-Barrientos L. E. auteur aut IRD Kemerink J. S. auteur aut IRD Wester P. auteur aut IRD Molle François auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access 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. specialized Commercial farmers irrigation boards water user association water resources water rights water reform South Africa AFRIQUE DU SUD 062 098 34 2 245-258 2018 0790-0627 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010072068 10.1080/07900627.2016.1253544 0790-0627 [F B010072068] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010072068 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2018/02/010072068.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 fdi:010072068 fre