Purpose

Understanding diversity amongst potential beneficiaries of land redistribution is of critical importance for both design and planning of successful land reform interventions. This study seeks to add to the existing literature on farming types, with specific emphasis on understanding diversity within a sub-group of commercially oriented or emerging smallholders.

Design/methodology/approach

Using a multivariate statistical analysis – principal component and cluster analyses applied to a sample of 442 commercially-oriented smallholders – five distinct clusters of emerging farmers are identified, using variables related to farmers' characteristics, income and expenditure and farm production indicators and willingness to participate in land redistribution. The five clusters are discussed in light of a predefined selection criteria that is based on the current policies and scholarly thinking.

Findings

The results suggest that there are distinct differences in farming types, and each identified cluster of farmers requires tailored support for the effective implementation of land reform. The identified homogenous sub-groups of smallholders, allows us to understand which farmers could be a better target for a successful land redistribution policy.

Originality/value

Most of the existing typology studies in South Africa tend to focus on general smallholders and in the Eastern Cape province; this study extends the literature by focussing on specific prime beneficiaries of land reform in three provinces. This study uses a more detailed dataset than the Statistics general and agricultural household surveys.

中文翻译：

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南非三个农村省份的新兴农民的类型：对土地重新分配政策有何影响？

目的

了解土地重新分配的潜在受益者之间的多样性对于成功进行土地改革干预措施的设计和规划都至关重要。这项研究的目的是增加有关农业类型的现有文献，特别着重于理解以商业为导向或新兴的小农群中的多样性。

设计/方法/方法

使用多元统计分析–对442个面向商业的小农户的样本进行主成分分析和聚类分析–使用与农民特征，收入和支出，农场生产指标以及参与意愿相关的变量，确定了五个不同的新兴农民群体在土地再分配中。根据当前的政策和学术思想，根据预定义的选择标准对五个集群进行了讨论。

发现

结果表明，耕作类型存在明显差异，并且每个确定的农民群体都需要针对有效实施土地改革的量身定制的支持。确定的同一个小农户子类别，使我们能够了解哪些农民可能是成功实施土地重新分配政策的更好目标。

创意/价值

南非现有的大多数类型学研究大多集中在普通小农和东开普省。这项研究着重于三个省土地改革的特定主要受益者，从而扩展了文献范围。这项研究使用的数据集比统计一般调查和农业住户调查的数据更为详尽。