While disappointment with South Africa's land reform program is
widespread, the discussions as to why and in what way tend to be too
general or shallow to be either fully convincing or useful. Land Reform
and Livelihoods seeks to sharpen our understanding of how land reform
does or does not work. In doing so, it helps us appreciate to what
extent land reform is contributing to poverty reduction, and to what
extent it might contribute to reduce poverty even more if we approached
it differently.