Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "du Toit, Andries"
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Adverse incorporation and agrarian policy in South Africa, Or, How not to connect the rural poor to growth
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Agriculture, value chains and the rural non-farm economy in Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe
du Toit, Andries (Spinger Nature, 2019)This chapter compares rural development in Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe, concentrating on agricultural value chains and their implications for the rural non-farm economy (RNFE). Based on detailed qualitative exploration, ... -
Can agriculture contribute to inclusive rural economies?
du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)If agricultural development is to contribute to economic growth, it has to do more than increase the productivity or efficiency of farming. It also needs to contribute to employment in the rural non-farm sector. This ... -
Challenging the stereotypes: Small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africa
Okunlola, Adetola; Ngubanei, Mnqob; Cousins, Ben; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)This report represents one of the outputs of a research and social dialogue project undertaken over 18 months. It was carried out by researchers from the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), based ... -
Challenging the stereotypes: small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africa
Okunlola, Adetola; Ngubane, Mnqobi; Cousins, Ben; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, 2016)This report represents one of the outputs of a research and social dialogue project undertaken over 18 months. It explores a number of private sector partnerships and projects launched in support of black farmers – some ... -
Chronic and structural poverty in South Africa: Challenges for action and research
du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)Ten years after liberation, the persistence of poverty is one of the most important and urgent problems facing South Africa. This paper reflects on some of the findings based on research undertaken as part of the participation ... -
Comments on the Green Paper on land reform 2011
du Toit, Andries; Cousins, Ben; Hall, Ruth; Kleinbooi, Karin; Paradza, Gayno; Ukpabi, Obiozo (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)As we have indicated in our earlier press release, the document released as a Green Paper by the Department Ministry of Rural Development and Land Reform is a great disappointment. The Green Paper is the product of a ... -
Emerging rooibos farmer market access project
Kruger, Sandra; du Toit, Andries; Keahey, Jennifer; Murray, Douglas; Raynolds, Laura; Ryser, Lisa (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)Global markets increasingly require rapid and coordinated response to standards and certification. Yet despite broad political transformations in post‐Apartheid South Africa, structural power relations limit emerging farmer ... -
The externalisation and casualisation of farm labour in Western Cape horticulture
du Toit, Andries; Ally, Fadeela (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003)On several Friday nights during February and March 2001, a visitor to Happiness Street1 in the Oostenberg Municipality s newly created Westbank housing project would have witnessed angry scenes. A small crowd of frustrated ... -
Food trade and investment in South Africa: Improving coherence between economic policy, nutrition and food security
Thow, Anne Marie; Greenberg, Stephen; Hara, Mafa; Friel, Sharon; du Toit, Andries; Sanders, David (Food trade and investment in South Africa: Improving coherence between economic policy, nutrition and food security, 2017-12)South Africa must address a rising burden of diet-related chronic disease while also continuing to combat persistent food insecurity and undernutrition (Muzigaba et al. 2016). The prevalence of stunting among children ... -
Forgotten by the highway: Globalisation, adverse incorporation and chronic poverty in a commercial farming district
du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)This paper presents key findings from a livelihoods survey of households in four poor neighbourhoods in the Western Cape district of Ceres, one of the centres of South Africa’s deciduous fruit export industry (see Figure ... -
Improving policy coherence for food security and nutrition in South Africa: a qualitative policy analysis
Thow, Anne Marie; Greenberg, Stephen; Hara, Mafaniso; Friel, Sharon; du Toit, Andries; Sanders, David (Springer Netherlands, 2018)Like most other low and middle-income countries, South Africa must address a rising burden of diet-related chronic disease in a situation of persistent food insecurity and undernutrition. Supply-side policy interventions ... -
In search of South Africa’s second economy: Chronic poverty, vulnerability and adverse incorporation in Mt. Frere and Khayelitsha
du Toit, Andries; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)Since 2003, South African policy discourse about persistent poverty has been dominated by the notion that poor people stay poor because they are trapped in a ‘second economy’, disconnected from the mainstream ‘first world ... -
In search of South Africa’s ‘second economy’: Chronic poverty, economic marginalisation and adverse incorporation in Mt Frere and Khayelitsha
du Toit, Andries; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007-11)Since 2003, South African policy discourse about persistent poverty has been dominated by the notion that poor people stay poor because they are trapped in a ‘second economy’, disconnected from the mainstream ‘First- World ... -
Informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks: Vulnerability, social networks and reciprocal exchange in the Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa
du Toit, Andries; Neves, David (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2009-01)This paper considers the dynamics of informal social protection in the context of chronic poverty and vulnerability in post-apartheid migrant networks. It argues that in poor and marginalised households in South Africa, ... -
It's the land, stupid! Die uberraschende dynamik landlicher raume in Sudlichen Afrika
du Toit, Andries; Scholvin, Soren (IZ3W, 2019) -
Making sense of 'evidence': Notes on the discursive politics of research and pro-poor policy making
du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012-09)This paper explores some of the assumptions underlying ‘evidence based’ approaches to poverty reduction impact assessment. It argues that the discourse of Evidence-Based Policy (EBP) offers poor guidance to those who ... -
Money and sociality in South Africa's informal economy
Neves, David; du Toit, Andries (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 ... -
Nasruddin's key: poverty measurement and the government of marginal populations
du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape., 2011)This paper considers the role of ‘measurement’ and other forms of poverty knowledge in a context where the nature and direction of global economic growth is creating ‘surplus populations’ suffering various forms of ... -
Nasruddin’s key: Poverty measurement and the government of marginal populations
du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This paper considers the role of ‘measurement’ and other forms of poverty knowledge in a context where the nature and direction of global economic growth is creating ‘surplus populations’ suffering various forms of ...