Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
December 2018
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MOKORO-12

There are many misconceptions about farming in southern Africa;and one of the most insidious is the notion of ‘viability’. A narrow economistic version has predominated that is based on a normative vision of farming based on full-time;large-scale commercial production. But taking a wider view;what is viable can take different forms more appreciative of the diverse ways farming is intertwined with wider livelihoods;and across different scales. Too often the dominant framing has been allied to strong normative;racially-inflected;colonial assumptions;supported today by well-articulated political and commercial interests;hooked into a long history of the assumed benefits of a dualistic agrarian system where modern;large-scale agriculture is seen as the ideal. Shedding these blinkered perspectives can be tough;but is certainly necessary.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Vivek Maru (Namati & Varun Gauri (World Bank Eds;Cambridge University Press

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Namati: Innovations in Legal Empowerment

Namati is an international organization that tests the potential of legal empowerment through innovative interventions and research. Through our work, we seek a better understanding of the impacts of legal empowerment and the most effective mechanisms for achieving them. 

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