Contested paradigms of ’viability’ in redistributive land reform: perspectives from Southern Africa

June 2009
Ben Cousins and Ian Scoones (PLAAS Working paper for the Livelihoods after Land Reform Project)

Includes modernisation and agricultural development in Southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia) past and present; framing viability: frameworks for assessing land and agrarian reform; viability in redistributive land reform in Southern Africa; rethinking viability in Southern African land reform.