Dr Edward Lahiff

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Edward Lahiff

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Food Business & Development
University College Cork
Cork University Business School

[email protected] ORCID profile www.sivn.edu.vn

Biography

I am a lecturer in international development at University College Cork (Dept Food Business and Development), Co-Director of the BSc. Programme in International Development and Co-Director of the MSc Food Security Policy and Management.

Between 1998 and 2006 I worked in southern Africa working with a rural NGO and later as Senior Lecturer in Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape. In 2009-10 I served as Doctoral Programme Officer with the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) and Coordinator of the International Doctoral School in Global Health at the Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin.

My current research focuses on links between small-scale farming and nutrition, particularly in Ethiopia, and on rural-urban migration in Vietnam..

I have published widely on land reform, rural livelihoods and natural resources in Africa, on links between agriculture and nutrition, and on migration in South-East Asia.

  1. Publications
  2. Other Activities
  3. Research Domains
  4. Thesis

Other Activities

  • 01/09/2021 - Co-Director of the MSc Food Security Policy and Management
  • 01/07/2021 - External Examiner at University of Otago
  • 01/07/2021 - EADIC ISS Conference 2021 Panel Convener
  • 01/02/2021 - External PhD Examiner, University of Pretoria
  • 23/06/2020 - External Examiner University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  • 01/04/2020 - Academic Rep on the UCC Campus Business Continuity Committee
  • 01/01/2020 - Chair of IFUT UCC Trade Union Branch
  • 01/01/2020 - Member of Athena Swan Committee, College of Business and Law
  • 04/01/2016 - Member of CUBS Academic Development and Standards Committee
  • 01/09/2015 - Director and Co-Director of BSc International Development
  • 01/09/2014 - College rep on the UCC Centre for Global Development Executive Committee
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Research Domains

  • Agri-nutrition linkages  
  • Income Distribution and Inequality
  • Land reform  
  • Rural Development 
  • Rural-urban migration
  • Sustainable management of natural resources
  • Sustainability of food production
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Thesis

  • 2014 - Risk perception, risk management and the role of livestock insurance,; Evidence from iorthe|n Ethropra, Tigray, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
  • 2014 - The relationship between rural livelihoods and livestock keeping: The case of Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
  • 2017 - Operationalizing rights based approaches to development: a study of state and non-state duty bearers in Odisha India (Thesis Primary Supervisor)
  • 2016 - Smallholder Agriculture and Household Food Nutrition Security: A study from East Hararghe, Ethiopia (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
  • 2016 - Agricultural Practices and Implications for Nutrition Security of Rural Households: Evidence from South-Eastern Tigray, Ethiopia, University College Cork (Thesis Co-Supervisor)
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Publications

Journal article

Year Publication
2007 MAY, H., LAHIFF, E. (2007). Land reform in Namaqualand, 1994–2005: A review. Journal of Arid Environments. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.08.015. Details
2018 LAHIFF, E. (2018). We Are the Locals”: The Operationalisation of Rights-Based Approaches to Development by Non-governmental Organisations in Koraput District, Odisha.. European Journal of Development Research, 30, 809–822. doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-018-0140-9. Details
2017 BISHU, K. G., LAHIFF, E., O'REILLY, S., GEBREGZIABHER, M. (2017). “Drivers of farmers’ cattle insurance decisions: evidence from smallholders in northern Ethiopia”.. Agrekon, 57 (1), pp. 40-48. Details
2016 GEBREEGZIABHER BISHU, K., O'REILLY, S., LAHIFF, E., STEINER, B. (2016). Cattle farmers’ perceptions of risk and risk management strategies. Journal of Risk Research, 21 (5), 579-598. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2016.1223163. Details
2018 BISHU, K. G., O'REILLY, S., O’REILLY, S., LAHIFF, E., STEINER, B. (2018). Cattle farmers’ perceptions of risk and risk management strategies: evidence from Northern Ethiopia. Journal of Risk Research. doi:10.1080/13669877.2016.1223163. Details
2018 BISHU, K. G., LAHIFF, E., O'REILLY, S., O’REILLY, S., GEBREGZIABHER, M. (2018). Drivers of farmers’ cattle insurance decisions: evidence from smallholders in northern Ethiopia. Agrekon, 57 (1), pp. 40-48. Details
2007 LAHIFF, E., BORAS, S. M., KAY, C. (2007). Market-led agrarian reform: policies, performance and prospects. Third World Quarterly, 28 (8), 1417-1436. doi:10.1080/01436590701637318. Details
2014 LAHIFF, E. (2014). Land Reform in South Africa 100 Years after the Natives' Land Act. Land Reform in South Africa 100 Years after the Natives' Land Act. Journal of Agrarian Change. doi:10.1111/joac.12082. Details
2009 LAHIFF, E. (2009). Land and Livelihoods: The Politics of Land Reform in Southern Africa. IDS Bulletin. Details
2007 LAHIFF, E. (2007). ‘Willing buyer, willing seller’: South Africa's failed experiment in market-led agrarian reform. Third World Quarterly, 28 (8), 1577-1597. doi:10.1080/01436590701637417. Details
2006 LAHIFF, E. (2006). Land tenure data in agriculture and rural development: a critical review of dualism in South Africa. Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives.
2003 LAHIFF, E., RUGEGE, S. (2003). A critical assessment of land redistribution policy in the light of the Grootboom judgment. Law, Democracy and Development, 6 (2).
2016 LAHIFF, E. (2016). Stalled Land Reform in South Africa. Current History, 115 (781), 181-187. doi:https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2016.115.781.181. Details
2020 AWEKE, C. S., LAHIFF, E., HASSEN, J. Y. (2020). The contribution of agriculture to household dietary diversity: evidence from smallholders in East Hararghe, Ethiopia. Food Security, 12, 625–636. doi:10.1007/s12571-020-01027-w. Details
2003 TEAM, S., LAHIFF, E. (2003). 2. Livelihood Dynamics: Rural Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. IDS Bulletin, 34 (3), pp. 15-30. Details
2001 LAHIFF, E., COUSINS, B. (2001). The Land Crisis in Zimbabwe Viewed from South of the Limpopo. Journal of Agrarian Change, 1 (4), 652-666. doi:10.1111/1471-0366.00022. Details
2003 TURN, S., LAHIFF, E. (2003). The Rural Poor, the Private Sector and Markets: Changing Interactions in Southern Africa. Multiple authors, including Edward Lahiff as country lead on South Africa. IDS Bulletin. Details
2016 LAHIFF, E. (2016). Stalled Land Reform in South Africa. Current History, 115 (781). doi:10.1525/curh.2016.115.781.181. Details
2019 ROBA, K. T., O'CONNOR, T., O'BRIEN, N., AWEKE, C. S., KAHSAY, Z., CHISHOLM, N., LAHIFF, E. (2019). Seasonal variations in household food insecurity and dietary diversity and their association with maternal and child nutritional status in rural Ethiopia. Food Security, 11, 651–664. doi:10.1007/s12571-019-00920-3. Details
2020 AWEKE, C. S., LAHIFF, E., WORDOFA, M. G., HASSEN, J. Y. (2020). Household food insecurity and hunger in Babile district, Ethiopia. International Journal of Social Economics, 47 (10). doi:10.1108/ijse-02-2020-0057. Details
2011 FISHER, S., KABIR, B., LAHIFF, E., MACLACHLAN, M. (2011). Knowledge, attitudes, practices and implications of safe water management and good hygiene in rural Bangladesh: assessing the impact and scope of the BRAC WASH programme. Journal of Water and Health, 9 (1), 80-93. doi:10.2166/wh.2010.023. Details
2005 LAHIFF, E. (2005). Land Reform in the Eastern Cape: The Ongoing Struggle for Resources and Secure Rights. Social Dynamics, 31 (1), 39-58. doi:10.1080/02533950508628695. Details
2007 KLEINBOOI, K., LAHIFF, E. (2007). “Die man is die hoof en vat voor”: Women's attitudes to land and farming in the communal areas of Namaqualand. Journal of Arid Environments, 70 (4), 799-817. doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.08.009. Details

Book

Year Publication
2012 LAHIFF, E., DAVIS, N., MANENZHE, T. (2012). Joint ventures in agriculture: Lessons from land reform projects in South Africa. IIED.
2001 LAHIFF, E. (2001). An Apartheid Oasis? Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods in Venda. Library of Peasant Studies No. 20. Routledge Taylor and Francis.

Book chapter

Year Publication
2014 LAHIFF, E., GUO, L. (2014). Land Redistribution in South Africa: A Critical Review. Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Bank Research Observer.
2000 LAHIFF, E., WOODHOUSE, P., BERNSTEIN, H., HULME, D. (2000). The Mutale River valley an apartheid oasis. African enclosures? The social dynamics of wetlands in drylands. James Currey.
2010 DERMAN, B., LAHIFF, E., SJAASTAD, E., SJAASTAD, E. (2010). Strategic Questions about Strategic Partners Challenges and Pitfalls in South Africa’s New Model of Land Restitution. Challenges and Pitfalls in South Africa’s New Model of Land Restitution,. Land, Memory, Reconstruction, and Justice: Perspectives on Land Claims. Ohio University Press.
2010 LAHIFF, E. (2010). Land reform and poverty reduction in South Africa. Reforming Land and Resource Use in South Africa Impact on Livelihoods. Routledge. Details
2013 LAHIFF, E. (2013). The Land Question in Southern Africa: a political economy perspective. Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium. Routledge.
2009 LAHIFF, E. (2009). Land Redistribution in South Africa. Agricultural Land Redistribution: towards greater consensus. World Bank Research Observer.
2000 LAHIFF, E. (2000). The impact of land reform policy in the Northern Province. At the Crossroads: Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa into the 21st Century. Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS).
2020 LAHIFF, E. (2020). Agriculture and Land in EU-Africa Relations. The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations. Routledge. Details
2002 LAHIFF, E. (2002). Land Policies and Practices. In Reed D and De Wit M. (Ed.), Towards a Just South Africa: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Wealth (pp. 85-99). Pretoria: WWF Macroeconomics Program Office.
2022 LAHIFF, E., MINH, P. Q., CHÍNH, N. T. (2022). Vietnam’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact (pp. 181-196). Bristol: Bristol University Press.
2009 ALIBER, M., ANDREWS, M., BAIPHETHI, M., CLIFFE, L., HALL, R., JACOBS, P., ... ZAMCHIYA, P. (2009). With what land rights? Tenure arrangements and support for land reform. Another Countryside: Policy Options for Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa. Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS).
2022 LAHIFF, E., MISHRA, N. (2022). Food entitlements Political will versus preparedness of the state in Odisha. Rights, Security and Challenges in the Global Sphere. Routledge India. Routledge. Details
2007 LAHIFF, E. (2007). La reforma agraria en África Austral. Economía política del desarrollo en África (pp. 161-187). Akal.

Edited book

Year Publication
2011 BORRAS, S. M., KAY, C. (2011). Market-Led Agrarian Reform. Critical perspectives on neoliberal land policies and the rural poor. Taylor and Francis Inc.

Book review

Year Publication
2015 LAHIFF, E. (2015). The great African land grab? Agricultural investments and the global food system. Journal of Peasant Studies. Details

Magazine article

Year Publication
2009 LAHIFF, E. (2009). Land and Livelihoods: The Politics of Land Reform in Southern Africa. IDS Bulletin. Details
2005 LAHIFF, E., COUSINS, B. (2005). Smallholder Agriculture and Land Reform in South Africa. IDS Bulletin. Details

Report

Year Publication
2000 LAHIFF, E. (2000). Land tenure on the Arabie-Olifants Irrigation Scheme. Retrieved from https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/39142 Details
2007 LAHIFF, E. (2007). Business models in land reform. Retrieved from https://repository.uwc.ac.za/handle/10566/78
2003 LAHIFF, E., NTSHONA, Z. (2003). Community-Based Eco-Tourism on the Wild Coast, South Africa: The Case of the Amadiba Trail. Retrieved from https://eldis.org/document/A13120
2003 LAHIFF, E. (2003). The politics of land reform in Southern Africa. Retrieved from https://eldis.org/document/A13868
2007 LAHIFF, E. (2007). State, Market Or The Worst Of Both? Experimenting With Market-based Land Reform In South Africa. Retrieved from https://sarpn.org/documents/d0002514/Land_reform_SA_PLAAS_Jan2007.pdf
2006 LAHIFF, E., ALIBER, M., GREENBERG, S., EVELETH, A., KLEINBOOI, K., TOM, B. (2006). Rural municipality case studies: land reform, farm employment and livelihoods.. ummary of research repots supported with funding from the National Treasury, USAID and the Human Sciences Research Council. Retrieved from https://repository.hsrc.ac.za/handle/20.500.11910/6076
2003 LAHIFF, E., NTSHONA, Z. (2003). Rural Development, Institutional Change and Livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: A Case Study of Mdudwa Village. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/research-for-development-outputs/rural-development-institutional-change-and-livelihoods-in-the-eastern-cape-south-africa-a-case-study-of-mdudwa-village
2007 LAHIFF, E., MANENZHE, T. (2007). Restitution and post-settlement support: Three case studies from Limpopo. Retrieved from https://repository.uwc.ac.za/handle/10566/4412
2003 LAHIFF, E. (2003). Rights talk and rights practice: challenges for Southern Africa. Retrieved from https://eldis.org/document/A13691
2003 LAHIFF, E. (2003). Decentralisations in practice in Southern Africa. Retrieved from https://eldis.org/document/A13694
2003 LAHIFF, E., HALL, R., JACOBS, P. (2003). Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land redistribution. Retrieved from https://repository.uwc.ac.za/handle/10566/4423
2007 TILLEY, S., NKAZANE, N., LAHIFF, E. (2007). Groenfontein–Ramohlakane community restitution claim. Retrieved from https://repository.uwc.ac.za/handle/10566/4411
2015 LAHIFF, E., HUNT, S. (2015). Land Matters: Dispossession and Resistance. Retrieved from https://www-staging.christianaid.ie/sites/default/files/2018-02/land-matters-dispossession-resistance.pdf
2002 LAHIFF, E., TURNER, S., COUSINS, B., WISBOURG, P. (2002). Land and agrarian reform in South Africa: A status report, 2002. Retrieved from https://repository.uwc.ac.za/handle/10566/4362
2008 LAHIFF, E. (2008). Land reform in South Africa: A status report 2008. Retrieved from https://repository.uwc.ac.za/handle/10566/4481

Other

Year Publication
2016 LAHIFF, E., MISHRA, N. (2016). Rights-Based Programs for Vulnerable Groups in Odisha, India. Bratislava, Slovakia International Conference. Pontis Foundation.
2006 LAHIFF, E., KLEINBOOI, K. (2006). Four Rural Municipality Case Studies: Land Reform, Farm Employment and Livelihoods. Report of workshop on Area-based and Territorial Approaches to Land Reform. Natural Resources Institute.
2010 LAHIFF, E., MACLACHLAN, M. (2010). Indigo: a new model of doctoral training in global health. T&L National Forum.
2006 LAHIFF, E. (2006). O Estado, o mercado ou o pior de ambos? A reforma agrária de mercado na África do Sul .. Editora Expressão Popular, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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