Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government’s second economy strategy: Volume 1: Situation analysis, fieldwork findings and main conclusions

Date
2010Author
Aliber, Michael
Baiphethi, Mompati
de Satge, Rick
Denison, Jonathan
Hart, Tim
Jacobs, Peter
van Averbeke, Wim
Alcock, Rauri
Antwi, Mike
Belete, Abenet
Cousins, Ben
Field, Larry
Mariga, Irvine
Masika, Patrick
Materechera, Simeon
Mayson, David
Monde, Nomakhaya
Tapela, Barbara
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Within the ambit of the Accelerated and Shared
Growth Initiative of South Africa, government is
leading a process to define a Second Economy
Strategy. One of the opportunities that has been
identified is the agricultural sector, in particular
fostering a larger number of smallholder agriculturalists.
The study seeks to identify the key
elements of an implementable programme to
support the smallholder sector. The core of the
exercise entailed identifying successful South
African smallholders active in different settings,
and examining the factors that contribute to
their success, whether these are personal, contextual,
institutional, etc. Although the study
was not designed as an evaluation of interventions
as such, in the process of conducting the
smallholder case studies (and in combination
with an extensive literature review), the efficacy
and relevance of different intervention and support
strategies also came into focus.