Agrarian Reform and Rural Poverty Reduction in South Africa (AR) 2012: Individual data - KwaZulu-Natal, North West, Western Cape

Description:
This data set contains the demographic information of the individuals in the farm household survey.

The data file contains 1874 cases and 10 variables.
Abstract:
This study sheds light on the nature of the relationships between agrarian reform and rural poverty reduction in order to learn lessons about the design of effective pro-poor agrarian policies. Secondary objectives include the following:

To explore the factors that have impeded agrarian reforms in South Africa;

To propose policy interventions on how agrarian reforms can contribute to reduction of both absolute and relative poverty in South Africa;

To assess whether South Africa's current land reform programme in terms of land acquisition, land (re)distribution and land management contribute adequately to the land requirements of (significant proportions) of the poor;

To assess the extent to which South Africa's current agricultural reform programmes provide adequate supports in terms of access to markets; extension services, credit/finance, capacity and skills development, infrastructure and basic services to newly established communities, particularly the poor;

To examine whether South Africa's agrarian reform programme adequately provides social supports and physical infrastructure, including basic healthcare, primary education services, and water supply services, to poor communities.

In 2009 the Human Sciences Research Council embarked on the first phase of this research project on 'Agrarian Reform and Poverty Reduction'. Phase one produced a comprehensive status report on this topic, including a review of the conceptual approaches and methodological best practices to guide further empirical research. This desktop synthesis of the literature identified prominent mechanisms or pathways through which reforms are likely to interact with poverty and to define meaningful indicators of human well-being as measures of impacts. These pathways are: household food security, employment, agro-food markets and social service delivery. Along each pathway, institutional arrangements play a critical role and it therefore served as a cross-cutter.

The second phase implements the primary fieldwork. More specifically, this second phase need to:

gather and analyze primary information/evidence about a selection of agrarian reform projects

strengthen our working relationship with agrarian reform implementation agencies and feed evidence into effective M&E systems

Given the practical nature of this phase, it will be vital to align it as closely as possible to emerging rural development policies and practices that aim to improve rural livelihoods.

This study followed a purpose-built household survey approach. Sampling followed a four stage stratified design to select farm households from DRDLR & DAFF administrative data: provincial selection (limited recent research on land reform); district selection (concentrated distribution of land reform), project selection (land reform projects with and without programmed state-funded agricultural support in the form of CASP and RECAP) and random selection of beneficiary farm-households in projects.

Description:
本数据集包含农户调查中受访个体的人口统计信息。
本数据文件共包含1874条样本与10个变量。
Abstract:
本研究旨在阐明土地改革与农村减贫之间关系的本质，以期为制定有效的亲贫型土地政策汲取经验教训。本研究的次要目标如下：

探究阻碍南非土地改革推进的各类因素；
针对南非土地改革如何助力减少绝对贫困与相对贫困提出政策干预方案；
评估南非当前土地改革计划在土地征收、土地（再）分配与土地管理层面，是否能够充分满足广大贫困群体的土地需求；
评估南非当前农业改革计划能否在市场准入、农业推广服务、信贷与金融支持、能力与技能培养、基础设施及基本服务供给等方面，为新兴社区尤其是贫困群体提供充足帮扶；
检视南非土地改革计划是否能够为贫困社区充分提供社会帮扶与实体基础设施，包括基本医疗、初等教育服务及供水服务。

2009年，人类科学研究理事会（Human Sciences Research Council）启动了“土地改革与减贫”研究项目的第一阶段。第一阶段产出了关于该主题的全面现状报告，其中涵盖了对指导后续实证研究的概念方法与方法论最佳实践的综述。本次文献桌面综述梳理出了改革与贫困产生互动的核心机制与路径，并确定了可作为影响衡量标准的有意义的人类福祉指标。这些路径包括：家庭粮食安全、就业、农业食品市场及社会服务供给。在每条路径中，制度安排均发挥着关键作用，是贯穿所有路径的核心要素。

第二阶段则开展一手实地调研工作。具体而言，第二阶段需完成以下任务：

收集并分析针对选定土地改革项目的一手信息与证据；
强化与土地改革执行机构的合作关系，并将调研证据纳入高效的监测与评估（M&E）体系。

鉴于本阶段的实践性特征，需尽可能将其与旨在改善农村生计的新兴农村发展政策与实践紧密结合，这一点至关重要。

本研究采用定制化农户调查方法。抽样环节采用四阶段分层抽样设计，从DRDLR与DAFF行政数据中选取农户：第一阶段为省份遴选（针对近期土地改革研究较为匮乏的省份）；第二阶段为地区遴选（针对土地改革分布集中的地区）；第三阶段为项目遴选（涵盖获得与未获得以CASP和RECAP形式提供的计划性国家农业支持的土地改革项目）；第四阶段为在选定项目中随机遴选受益农户。