Accelerating Sustainable, Efficient and Equitable Land Reform:
Case Study of the Qedusizi/Besters Cluster Project

January, 2008

Abstract

The study is a joint product of the Department of Land Affairs of South Africa and the World Bank. It analyzes an innovative land reform project in South Africa. The project was the result of collective negotiations between land owners and farm workers in the Besters district in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Its success in terms of area transferred, number of beneficiaries, the promising start of the various farm and agri-businesses initiated and the reduction of crime in the area inspired the government to adopt a more pro-active and area-based land reform model, as an addition to the existing demand-driven approach by self-selected beneficiaries. The study emanated from, and was financed by, the Bank's on-going Technical Assistance to the Ministry for Agriculture and Land Affairs. The study focuses in particular on the various options for farming enterprises and agri-businesses which could be pursued by the beneficiaries, applying theory and international experience of agricultural economics.

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