"Die man is die hoof en vat voor": Women's attitudes to land and farming in the communal areas of Namaqualand

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dc.contributorHoffman, M.T.en
dc.contributorAllsopp, N.en
dc.contributorRohde, R.F.en
dc.contributor.authorKleinbooi, K.en
dc.contributor.authorLahiff, E.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialNamaqualanden
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:07:56Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:07:56Zen
dc.date.issued2007en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis article examines female attitudes towards and experiences with agricultural production and land rights in Namaqualand, South Africa. Namaqualand was chosen as the study site because it is home to six different "coloured" reserves or rural areas reserved exclusively for peoples racially defined as "coloured," which have traditionally been held under communal management. Today, a large part of the land is still organized and managed by local officials. Another reason Namaqualand was selected for this research is due to the discrepancy between the lack of independent land rights for women and their important economic contributions. The empirical work in this article was based on 45 in-depth interviews given to women from the reserves and fieldwork conducted in Namaqualand common areas. The participants were recruited using an informal, word-of-mouth technique which lessens the statistical representation of the study group. However, strong efforts were made by the authors to include a diverse group of women taking into account many different characteristics like age and marital status. The research suggests that Namaqualand women typically access land through relationships with male relatives and because of this fact single women find it almost impossible to gain access to land and widowed or divorced women are susceptible to the loss of their land rights. The study shows Namaqualand women are involved in a wide range of agricultural production activities. Most women carry out those activities on land controlled by male relatives; however, a small proportion of women independently administer land. In this study women displayed conservative views on the patriarchal land use system and were unwilling to challenge traditionally gendered land rights. Even so, Namaqualand women expressed a strong desire for secure access to land.en
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dc.identifier4717en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Arid Environments 70(4): 799-817en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.08.009en
dc.identifier.issn0140-1963en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68952en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherAcademic Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2006 Elsevier Ltden
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectTenure systemen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectGrazingen
dc.subjectLand tenureen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectAgricultural landen
dc.subjectAgricultural productionen
dc.subjectAttitudeen
dc.subjectCommon landsen
dc.subjectGender relationsen
dc.subjectLand ownershipen
dc.subjectLand reformen
dc.subjectResidential areasen
dc.subjectWomen's statusen
dc.subjectFarmlanden
dc.subjectLand reformen
dc.subjectProperty rightsen
dc.subjectHousingen
dc.subjectInheritanceen
dc.subjectSouth africaen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scaleen
dc.title"Die man is die hoof en vat voor": Women's attitudes to land and farming in the communal areas of Namaqualanden
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