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The informal sector’s role in food security: A missing link in policy debates?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016-09)
This paper aims to review what is currently known about the role played by the informal sector in general
and informal retailers in particular, in the accessibility of food in South Africa. The review seeks to
identify ...
Self-employment in South Africa’s informal sector: Prevalence, prospects and policy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This text describes research undertaken to investigate small-scale self-employment at the
margins of the South African economy. Despite high levels of poverty and unemployment
South Africa’s informal sector is, by ...
Systematic review of the literature on ‘informal economy’ and ‘food security’: South Africa, 2009-2014
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016-07)
Despite the importance of the informal food economy in fulfilling the daily and weekly food needs of a
large proportion of South Africa’s low-income population, it appears little research exists on the exact
nature of ...
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)
This article examines the interplay of agency, culture and context in order to
consider the social embeddedness of money and trade at the margins of South
Africa’s economy. Focusing on small-scale, survivalist informal ...
What price cheap goods? Survivalists, informalists and competition in the township retail grocery trade
(PLAAS, 2019-08-31)
About 54% of South Africa’s township microenterprises trade in food or drink. More than two-thirds of these are grocery retail businesses in the form of spaza shops and smaller ‘house shops’. These are the predominant ...