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'Emerging' (or 'black') farmers are often considered a homogeneous group. While individual emerging farmers and agribusinesses in South Africa share a common history, the case studies in this book show that in fact significant differences exist among them that are often hidden beneath the averaging and aggregation typical of most analytical research. Presenting fifteen case studies of emerging agribusinesses in South Africa, this book has three main objectives: (1) to capture the human stories behind the emerging farms and agribusinesses in South Africa in order to showcase their rich diversity, historical backgrounds, current context, and future directions; (2) to highlight the best practices, opportunities, and challenges facing South Africa?s emerging farmers and agribusinesses; and (3) to create a new set of instructional materials for academics and development practitioners, or as a point of reference for other entrepreneurs, members of government, and other practitioners engaged in agriculture and agribusiness. The case study format, a relatively new tool in the field of agribusiness management, allows for a close-up view of the entrepreneurs at the heart of the businesses, providing an ideal lens through which to take a snapshot of the agribusiness landscape of South Africa today.
"Progressive agrarian transformation has rhetorically encompassed a shift to small-scale agriculture in South Africa since at least 1994 when the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) proposed reorienting agricultural support towards small-scale production. However, material support for this shift only really took off in 2009 when government and agribusiness converged on a strategy to integrate small-scale growers into value chains - mainly in the form of contract farming. Using original case study material, Smallholders and Agro-Food Value Chains in South Africa draws lessons from the value chains integration strategy and various innovative models developed to support it. Case studies range from agribusiness-sponsored sub-contracting projects to strategic partnership agreements on restitution farms and welfarist urban agricultural projects in the heart of Johannesburg. The book reflects on who might benefit from the value chains integration strategy : Will it only serve a narrow, relative elite, of small-scale black farmers ? Or can the strategy potentially widen the base of small-scale producers so that they become a significant force in South Africa's agricultural sector ?" -- Back cover.
This book provides a synthesis of the key issues and challenges facing agriculture and food production in Southern Africa. Southern Africa is facing numerous challenges from diverse issues such as agricultural transformations, growing populations, urbanization and climate change. These challenges place great pressure on food security, agriculture, water availability and other natural resources, as well as impacting biodiversity. Drawing on case studies from Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the chapters in this book consider these challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering key areas in constraints to production, the most important building blocks of good farming practices, and established and emerging technologies. This book will be a valuable support for informing new policies and processes aimed at improving food production and security and developing sustainable agriculture in Southern Africa. This informative volume will be key reading for those interested in agricultural science, African studies, rural studies, development studies and sustainability. It will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and agricultural practitioners. This title has been made available as Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CCBY-NC-ND) license and can be accessed here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429401701
ÿ Inclusive business is hailed as a win-win scenario for the development of poor communities; yet there is little insight into how these inclusive businesses work and, more importantly, for whom. This book aims for a thorough understanding of the range of inclusive businesses in agriculture by examining: the structures they implement, the actors involved, and whether they are effectively inclusive of smallholders. It presents a range of case studies and is therefore empirically based and practically oriented. By offering a critical assessment of inclusive businesses overall, it allows for a better perception of what works where, and under which conditions. It provides useful insights that will benefit smallholders, agri-businesses, support groups, policy makers and investors who are willing to promote more inclusive businesses, that foster a better integration of smallholders into commercial value-chains and a more equitable and sustainable agricultural sector.
Statistics South Africa has estimated the South African population at more than 55 million people. The World Wildlife Fund has estimated that, with a population growth of nearly 2% per year, the population could reach nearly 80 million by the year 2035. South Africa, with its growing population, is seeing a changing agro-food landscape in accordance with global changes. It is important to note that the South African agricultural sector takes on a form that is dualistic in nature, spread between large-scale commercial farmers and small-scale, emerging farmers. These small-scale farmers often face numerous constraints, which curb their market access. Without small-scale farmers entering the value chain, there is limited participation of smaller agro-processing organizations in the downstream value-chain. Following a description of these critical constraints faced by small-scale farmers in a country like South Africa, this dissertation focuses on a method to capture the true responses from respondents in two case studies. In the first part of the objective, the analysis focuses on value-related questions applied to different respondents in each case study. These value-related questions relate to the following: The main advantages _ The main disadvantages _ The major lessons learned _ The major challenges experienced After the value-related analysis, further analysis of the specific objectives captures the true impacts of the model and evaluates how the current constraints are eliminated. The impacts and constraints are: Impacts of participating in the agro-processing model: _ aÌ22́Ơ¿3Access to resources and knowledge _ Economic and social gains _ Environmental and health impactsaÌ22́Ơ℗+ Addressing the constraints faced by the small-scale farmers: _ aÌ22́Ơ¿3Weakness of support services _ Prevailing farming structure _ Access to finance and risk management _ Producer knowledgeaÌ22́Ơ℗+ After studying previous literature and the current analyses, it became increasingly clear that it is important for big business to engage in transactions with small-scale farmers. Critical impacts for small-scale farmers as specified above and examined in more detail in Chapter 4 through inclusive business models will be beneficial to small and rural communities. They will improve food security on small and commercial scales, and ultimately lead to the development of agricultural land that was previously not utilized or underdeveloped. In conclusion, it can be said the proposition can be supported that a small- and medium-scale agro-processing model could be accepted as an alternative inclusion mechanism that would effectively address the constraints faced by small-scale farmers when entering high-value food markets. However, further research is recommended in this area.
This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their business with the support of special government programs. Public support programs have been developed as part of the Black Economic Empowerment strategy of the South African government. These programs aim to improve the performance of emerging farmers. This requires, first and foremost, upgrading the emerging farmers skills by providing access to knowledge about agricultural and entrepreneurial practices. To become or to remain good farmers they also need access to suitable agricultural land and sufficient water for irrigation and for feeding their cattle. Finally, for emerging farmers to be engaged in viable farming operations, various factors need to be in place such as marketing and service institutions to give credit for agricultural inputs and investments; input markets for farm machinery, farm implements, fertilizers and quality seeds; and accessible output markets for their end products. This book develops a policy framework and potential institutional responses to unlock the relevant markets for smallholders.
At the end of Apartheid in 1994, about 82 million hectares of commercial farmland (86% of all farmland) was in the hands of the white minority. Over thirteen million black people lived in crowded former homelands under extreme poverty. Since 1994, the Government of South Africa has initiated several land reform programs in order to address the racial imbalance in land holding and secure t he land rights of historically disadvantaged people. This review of experiences of supporting emerging historically disadvantaged farmers examines the implementation of the land reform policy and its support programs and documents several cases of support to emerging framers. Bets practices are synthesized from the review and compared with international best practice experiences.--Publisher's description.
This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on peasant agriculture as a key livelihood strategy in Southern and Eastern Africa, against the background of the current development crisis and the crossroads that Southern and Eastern Africa faces. It systematically analyses how the neoliberal architecture has deepened extroverted production for capitalist accumulation and how this has been to the detriment of the rural labour force and small scale and communal landowners. Apart from examining how neoliberalism has triggered land alienations, the book further argues that such policies have also impacted negatively on food security in a number of ways. The book presents empirical evidence through twelve case studies, emerging from in-depth original fieldwork carried out in seven countries in the Southern and Eastern African region. This book is a must-read for scholars of economics,sociology, anthropology, history, agrarian studies and political science, as well as practitioners and policy-makers, interested in a better understanding of the impact of the agrarian neoliberal restructuring on the peasantry in Southern Africa.
Intended for policymakers and scholars, the 15 contributions in this volume are divided into two sections: the first provides six country case studies of the evolving maize economies of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria. The second part synthesizes major technological, institutional, and policy issues with chapters on research and extension, soil fertility, seed and fertilizer delivery systems, and marketing and price policy. Paper edition (754-0), $29.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR