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White Papers on agricultural and land policy

Literature › Primary sources
Kind commission or official report
Producer Union/Republic of South Africa
Coverage 1946-1997
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Crush and Jeeves (1993) White Paper on Land Reform (1991) 1991 Cited as the state's policy blueprint that the guest-issue authors treat as an attempt to pre-empt radical change and entrench the status quo.
Kirsten et al. (2007) Union of South Africa White Paper on Agricultural Policy (1946); RSA White Paper (1984) and (1997) land policy 1946, 1984, 1997 Quoted to document the policy rationale for farm protection and the 1980s policy pillars.
Vink et al. (2012) White Paper on Agricultural Policy (RSA 1984) 1984 Source of the three pillars of 'optimum agricultural development' policy characterising state support.