@article{Claassen:330701,
      recid = {330701},
      author = {Claassen, Casper Hendrik and Jin-Sang, Lee},
      title = {Land to the Tiller: A Comparison of Land Reform in South  Africa and South Korea},
      journal = {Journal of Rural Development/Nongchon-Gyeongje},
      address = {2017-03-31},
      number = {1071-2023-401},
      month = {Mar},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {This paper seeks to inform South Africa’s current land  reform effort, which remains a deeply divisive issue in  post-apartheid South Africa. Demonstrably, state-led land  reform in Korea had significant economic benefits, namely,  higher food supply, enhanced agricultural productivity,  improved human capital, increased household income, and the  emergence of a capitalist entrepreneurial class.  Zimbabwe-style state-led land reform, on the other hand,  would be destructive. Elements of state role in Korean land  reform can be identified for use in South Africa, first  through the adoption of a smallholder system in communal  areas for profitable farming. Nationwide tenure reform  projects should be launched in subsistence-farming areas to  measure potential success. This would involve rural land  tenure reform that sees ownership move from  communal/government to individual level; where property  rights are guaranteed to individuals. Ultimately, such  reforms could support South Africa’s goal of achieving 30%  land reform in the agricultural sector by cultivating  successful black farmers who would be able to successfully  manage larger commercial farms, whether they be divided  into a number of smaller lots or stay intact.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/330701},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.330701},
}