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Peter Jacobs

Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics

University of the Western Cape Bellville SOUTH AFRICA ptjacobs@uwc.ac.za

Peter Jacobs lectures Development Economics at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. Peter participated in the 2004 Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics. Although his research focus is on rural development and the political economy of agrarian change, he also has a keen interest in methodology in development theory, the economics of privatization, poverty and inequality. With his colleagues at the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at UWC he completed an independent review of aspects of South Africa?s land reform policies. He works closely with non-governmental organizations and social movements in South Africa?s agrarian reform sector.

Focus: Agriculture, Development, Poverty, Africa

Selected Publications:

Lahiff, E. , Ruth Hall and Peter Jacobs. "Redistributive Land Reform in South Africa: A Scoping Study for the Methods and Impacts of Land Access and Agrarian Reform Project" (Cape Town: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003).

Jacobs, Peter, E. Lahiff and R. Hall. "Land redistribution," Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa series, no. 1 (Cape Town: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003).

Jacobs, Peter. "Support for agricultural development," Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa series, no. 4. (Cape Town: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003).

Hall, R., Peter Jacobs and E. Lahiff. "Final report," Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa series, no. 10. (Cape Town: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003).

Specialization:

Political economy of agrarian change; Political economy of privatization; Methodology in development theory

Language Fluency:

English

Last Updated: Sep 22, 2006