| ABET | Adult Basic Education and Training |
| Agri-BEE | agricultural sector code for black economic empowerment |
| ANC | African National Congress |
| ARC | Agricultural Research Council |
| BEE | Black Economic Empowerment |
| CASP | Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme |
| CLRA | Communal Land Rights Act |
| CPA | Communal Property Association |
| CRDP | Comprehensive Rural Development Programme |
| CSG | Child Support Grant |
| DBSA | Development Bank of Southern Africa |
| DLA | Department of Land Affairs |
| DOA | Department of Agriculture |
| DRDLR | Department of Rural Development and Land Reform |
| ECRLCC | Eastern Cape Regional Land Claims Commission |
| EDD | Economic Development Department |
| EO | extension officer |
| FWES | Farmer Worker Equity Share |
| GEAR | Growth, Employment and Redistribution programme |
| GM | genetically modified |
| HFPP | Homestead Food Production Programme |
| LRAD | Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development programme |
| LRC | Legal Resources Centre |
| MAFISA | Micro-agricultural Financial Institutional Scheme of South Africa |
| MFPP | Massive Food Production Programme |
| MLAR | market-led agrarian reform model |
| MST | Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra |
| NAFU | National African Farmers Union |
| NCP | Northern Cape province |
| NDA | National Department of Agriculture |
| NGO | non-governmental organisation |
| NPC | National Planning Commission |
| PDA | Provincial Department of Agriculture |
| PGDP | Provincial Growth and Development Plan |
| PLAS | proactive land acquisition strategy |
| PTO | Permission to Occupy |
| RDP | Reconstruction and Development Programme |
| SLAG | Settlement/Land Acquisition Grant |
| SSDP | Settlement Support and Development Planning |
| TRANCRAA | Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act |
