Case Studies

Agrarian Transformation at Dudumeni Comprehensive High School

Dudumeni JSS, as it used to be started growing vegetables in 1990,...

Ebathweni, an Eco-Tourism Initiative funded by Surudec

TRALSO STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING

Working towards better land access feature

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programmes » Agrarian Transformation

This program aims to achieve productive and sustainable use of land and contribute to (or influence) formulation of conducive land use policies.

The miracle of post apartheid South Africa is marred by growing de-agrarianisation of rural communities, mass unemployment, violent crime, moral degeneration and pandemics such as HIV/AIDS. Rural, peri-urban and informal dormitory settlements characteristic of the Eastern Cape have proven most vulnerable to this phenomenon. The primary causes are modernisation, rampant commoditization of basic necessities and injudicious management of the environment. TRALSO believes in the right of rural people to choose, and be afforded the means to pursue a path that revives and preserves their proud traditions of food sovereignty, social cohesion, democratic processes and venerable moral standards.

The Agrarian Transformation Programme aims to build productive, cohesive and resilient communities around land by;

Offering informed critique of the dominant policy and implementation paradigms
Offering practical, demonstrable, sustainable and ecologically friendly alternative rural livelihoods solutions
Building community platforms to voice demands around rural development, land and agrarian reform and gender issues.

TRALSO provides technical assistance in terms of needs assessment, feasibility studies and advice on various means of sustainable land use practices. It also influences formulation of land use policies through advocacy and research.

This programme has resulted in greater participation of rural communities in the formulation of policies that are related to land use, and an increase in the number of people using land productively. In addition to this sustained activity, there is an increase in the variety of land use by the rural population.

Today, Government has recognised, and takes into account, the needs of small scale rural farmers when formulating policy.

This programme has two additional sub-programmes: