Agricultural, soil conservation and land settlement legislation

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Union/Republic of South Africa
Coverage	1912-1996
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	4
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	3
Data reliability and econometric method	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Delius and Schirmer (2000)	Forest and Veld Conservation Act 1941; Soil Conservation Act No. 45 of 1946; Amended Soil Conservation Act 1969	1941-1969	Establishes the powers and flexibility of the conservation legislation and its later centralisation.
Liebenberg (2012b)	Land Settlement Acts and related legislation (Land Act 1913, Co-operatives Act 1920, Agricultural Marketing Act 1937, Soil Conservation Act 1946, Land Settlement Act 1912/1956)	1912-1996	Context for discriminatory policy and subsidy regimes explaining black/white sector divergence and policy phases.
Lipton and Lipton (1994)	Apartheid-era agricultural controls and statutory Marketing Boards (land ownership limits, marketing and pricing of up to 80% of production)	apartheid era	Described to show a heavily regulated agriculture and the discriminatory dual structure.
Schirmer (2004)	Du Plessis Commission 1963 and Subdivision of Agricultural Land Act 1970	1963-1970	Evidence of a policy shift against small farms by 1970.