Explaining South Africa’s land reform policy failure through its instruments: the emergence of inclusive agricultural business models
Abstract
This paper seeks to explain the emergence of South African inclusive
agricultural business models in relation to the land reform policy.
We demonstrate that in South Africa such policy instruments
linking small-scale and large-scale farmers respond to endogenous
dynamics linked to the failure of its land reform policy. We study
the land reform policy change induced by its policy instruments.
Indeed, introducing the market as the preferred means to
implement land reform caused unanticipated side effects, creating
constant pressure for change that such inadequate instrument
exerted on the set policy objectives during the first phase of
policy implementation. After cohabitating uneasily with rather
antagonistic policy goals, policy instruments ultimately led to a
change in policy objectives, shifting from supporting small-scale
black subsistence agriculture to targeting a class of emerging
farmers committed to commercial agriculture. Inclusive Business
Model’s policy instruments were subsequently identified as the
best fit to achieve the re-adjusted policy goal.
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