Rural jobs: Commodity sector possibilities and constraints – the case of smallholder irrigation schemes in the Eastern Cape

Abstract

• NDP – 1 million new jobs in agriculture; largely premised on expanding the area under irrigation • Cousins – “The evidence from Tugela Ferry and other irrigation schemes shows that where [small-scale farmers] have access to fertile soils, irrigation water and markets, small-scale farmers can be highly productive and earn reasonable returns” (2012)