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    • Contesting the food system in South Africa: Issues and opportunities 

      Greenberg, Stephen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
      Rising food prices have become a growing concern globally and in southern Africa. In South Africa, where food availability is not an issue at present, the response has been to try to improve access to food, mostly ...
    • Contesting the food system in South Africa: issues and opportunities 

      Greenberg, Stephen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
      This report widens the debate about food production and distribution in South Africa to consider some of the entrenched power dynamics that shape the way these happen, and to consider whether a more radical transformation ...
    • Corporate concentration and food security in South Africa: is the commercial agro-food system delivering? 

      Greenberg, Stephen (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
      Although the current agro-food system in South Africa has the technical and organisational capacity to meet domestic food needs, there are major problems with access to food and with the nutrient content of existing food ...
    • Status report on land and agricultural policy in South Africa 

      Greenberg, Stephen (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
      A strategy that seeks to insert smallholders into the large-scale, industrial, export-oriented model can only succeed in broadening and diversifying the producer base slightly. The large-scale model also brings ...
    • Status report on land and agricultural policy in South Africa, 2010 

      Greenberg, Stephen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
      Agriculture plays numerous roles in society. The most obvious is to produce food (and, to a lesser extent, fibre). While agriculture is the mainstay of the rural economy, it also shapes social relations and landscapes. ...