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dc.contributor.authorOkunlola, Adetola
dc.contributor.authorNgubane, Mnqobi
dc.contributor.authorCousins, Ben
dc.contributor.authordu Toit, Andries
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-20T11:51:25Z
dc.date.available2016-10-20T11:51:25Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationOkunlola, A. et al. (2016). Challenging the stereotypes: small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africa: A national scan (Research Report No. 53). Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies , University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2454
dc.description.abstractThis 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 of them highly innovative, others of dubious merit. Hardly a week passes by without news of some new initiative to ‘train’, ‘help’, ‘empower’ or otherwise assist ‘small-scale black farmers’. The findings of this research suggest that many of the current programmes of support on offer from the private sector are built on somewhat shaky foundations. These are often based on problematic assumptions and normative ideas about what constitutes desirable agricultural development, most of them deeply (if not consciously) informed by the experience of fostering a successful large farm sector in South Africa in the past. The problems that many small-scale black farmers experience in their attempts to enter the competitive world of formal value chains suggests that a fundamental re-think is now required.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPLAAS Research Report;53
dc.rightsCopyright © 2016 | PLAAS - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies.
dc.source.urihttp://www.plaas.org.za/plaas-publication/RR53_ssca_okunlola%20et%20al
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectValue chainen_US
dc.subjectPrivate sectoren_US
dc.subjectSmall-scale farmersen_US
dc.subjectAgricultural developmenten_US
dc.subjectAgricultureen_US
dc.titleChallenging the stereotypes: small-scale black farmers and private sector support programmes in South Africaen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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