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Alcock, R., Burgess, R., Letsoalo, E., Hart, T., de Villiers, H., Saruchera, M. & Sithole, V. (2004) Prolinnova South Africa: PROromoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management. (Catalogue of farmer innovations). Pretoria: Agricultural Research Council.
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Aliber, M. & Hart, T.G.B. (2009) Should subsistence agriculture be supported as a strategy to address rural food insecurity?. Agrekon. 48(4):434-458.
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At first glance South Africa's black farming sector appears to contribute rather minimally to overall agricultural output in South Africa. However, despite the complexity involved in this sector and the often marginal conditions in which agriculture is practised it appears to be important to a large number of black households. Furthermore, the significance they attach to subsistence agriculture...
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Aliber, M. (2009) Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government's second economy strategy. (March).
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Aliber, M. & Makomane, C. (2006) Farmland price trends in South Africa, 1994-2005. (Commissioned by the Department of Land Affairs, September).
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Aliber, M. & Mokoena, R. (2005) Farmland price trends in South Africa, 1994-2003. (Commissioned by the Department of Land Affairs, July).
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The purpose of this document is to provide DLA staff with information about market activity, particularly in terms of average prices, for farmland. It must be stressed from the outset that the figures in this report cannot substitute for on-site investigation, consultation with knowledgeable local sources, or a professional valuation . Rather it provides summary statistics related to recent sa...
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Aliber, M. & Mokoena, R. (2003) Farmland Price Trends in South Africa, 1994-2003: draft. (Commissioned by the DLA).
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The purpose of this document is to provide DLA staff with information about market activity, particularly in terms of average prices, for farmland. It must be stressed from the outset that the figures in this report cannot substitute for on-site investigation, consultation with knowledgeable local sources, or a professional valuation . Rather it provides summary statistics related to recent sa...
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Altman, M., Hart, T.G.B. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) Household food security status in South Africa. Agrekon. 48(4):345-361.
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The Human Sciences Research Council has established a policy research initiative to monitor household food security and to identify and evaluate policy options. In this special edition, a selection of articles from this project is assembled. While deep chronic
hunger has fallen with the expansion of the social grants, under-nutrition is a very serious and widespread challenge. This special edi...
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Atkinson, D. (2007) Going for broke: the fate of farm workers in arid South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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South African agriculture has always been ideologically contested, because of its relationship with controversial land ownership issues. This book takes the question of farm workers? fortunes beyond the land debate, to consider their current and future livelihoods. The book argues that the question of farm workers needs to be understood as part of a broader spectrum of economic and social quest...
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Baiphethi, M.N. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa. (March).
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The main aim of this paper is to discuss the contribution of availability of, and access to, improved farm inputs for subsistence/smallholder farmers to improving household food production, and hence food security. This will feed into consideration
of the broader questions concerning possible policy interventions to mitigate against the impacts of increased food prices for both the rural and u...
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Baiphethi, M.N. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa. (Poster presentation at the 47th AEASA Annual Conference, 21-23 September).
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Baiphethi, M.N. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa. Agrekon. 48(4):459-482.
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Poor households access their food from the market, subsistence production and transfers from public programmes or other households. In the past rural households produced most of their own food, but recent studies have shown an increase in
dependence on market purchases by both urban and rural households, in some cases reaching 90% of the food supplies. Food expenditures can account for as much...
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Benseler, A. (2003) Case study of commonage use in the Khai Ma municipality. (Commissioned by the Department of Land Affairs, December).
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Benseler, A. (2003) Municipal commonage administration in the Northern Cape: can municipalities promote emergent farming?. (October 2003).
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Land reform is becoming a key part of government policy, especially in the light of land reform pressures in countries like Zimbabwe. It is clear to national and provincial governments that land reform should be speeded up. Municipalities are, therefore, being placed under a lot of political and governmental pressure to increasingly make their commonage land available to emergent farmers. This...
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Benseler, A. (2002) Municipal commonage administration: can the new-look municipalities promote emergent farming?. (Commonage Report, HSRC, October).
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The primary purpose of this research was to establish whether municipalities in the current local government dispensation in the Free State are able to utilise commonage land to promote emerging farmers so effectively that they become viable commercial farmers. The secondary purpose of the study is to outline how, in the event of emerging farmers ion municipal commonage becoming successful com...
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Hart, T. (2009) Fruit - general. In: National Research Directory. Pretoria: Rainbow South Africa. 186-189.
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Deciduous fruit is grown mainly in the Western Cape, as well as in the Langkloof Valley in the Eastern Cape. Significant table and dried grapes production areas are also along the Orange River and in the Free State, Mpumalanga and Gauteng. Citrus is mainly produced in the irrigation areas of the Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Eastern and Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Subtropical crops such as avoca...
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Hart, T. & Vorster, H.J. (eds). (2007) African indigenous knowledge systems in agricultural production: a consultative report for Department of Science and Technology, National Indigenous Knowledge Sytems Office (NIKSO), Pretoria, South Africa. Pretoria: Department of Science and Technology (DST).
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Hart, T. (2007) The socioeconomics of subsistence farmers and the contribution of the social sciences to agricultural development. In: Ntutela, S., Gevers, W. & Ramaite, R. (eds). Science-based improvements of rural/subsistence agriculture: forum proceedings. Pretoria: Academy of Science of South Africa. 69-82.
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Hart, T. (2006) The socioeconomics of subsistence farmers. (Paper presented to the ASSAF Workshop, Department of Science and Technology, 18 October).
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Hart, T., Billet, A. & Burgess, R. (2005) South Africa: a smallholder's innovative approach to producing and exporting fruit. IK notes. 78:1-4.
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Hart, T., Billet, A. & Burgess, R. (2005) South Africa: a smallholder's innovative approach to producing and exporting fruit. Rural development news. 28(2):45-48.
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Hart, T. (2005) What does PROLLINNOVA mean?. (Presentation to the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), Roodeplaat Research Forum, Pretoria, 11 March).
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Hart, T. & Burgess, R. (2004) How a smallholder farmer entered and remained in the export market for thirty years. (Paper presented in a presentation made at the PROLLINOVA SA training feedback workshop at Pietermaritzburg, 10-11 November).
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Hart, T.G.B. (2011) The significance of African vegetables in ensuring food security for South Africa's rural poor. Agriculture and Human Values. 28(3):321-333.
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Technologies and services provided to resource-poor farmers need to be relevant and compatible with the context in which they operate. This paper examines the contribution of extension services to the food security of resource-poor farmers in a rural village in South Africa. It considers these in terms of the local context and the production of African vegetables in household food plots. A mixt...
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Hart, T.G.B. (2007) Local knowledge and agricultural applications: lessons from a Ugandan parish. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension. 36:229-248.
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A multidisciplinary team of agricultural researchers worked with residents of a rural parish in south-western Uganda to generate local knowledge about the diverse use of plants identified as African vegetables. While some were sold at the commercial fresh produce market in Kampala most were cultivated for household consumption. Some plants had properties which, when planted in specific ways, ...
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Hart, T.G.B. & Vorster, H.J. (2006) Smallholder potato production activities in South Africa: a socio-economic and technical assessment of five cases in three provinces. (Commissioned by the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), December).
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Hart, T.G.B. (2005) Visit to Italy for the purpose of attending 18th Symposium of the International Farming Systems Association at the Salesianum, Rome. (27 October to 7 November).
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Jacobs, P. (2011) Sustainable rural development: employment and household farming. (Paper presented at the Economic Development Department Conference, Spatial Dynamics Panel, 31 May).
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Jacobs, P. & Andrews, N. (2009) Nourishing rural poverty - South Africa's unchanging land relations. (Paper presented at the II IESE conference in Maputo, Mozambique, 22-23 April).
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The South African neo-liberal model of development has overall produced greater social differentiation since the end of apartheid in 1994. This is rooted in the soil of an essentially unchanged land system. Land reform is oriented towards 'deracialising' the commercial farming sector through market-based redistribution, creating a modest opening for black farmers. The overwhelming result has be...
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Makhura, M. & Mokoena, M.R. (2003) Market access for small-scale farmers in South Africa. In The challenge of change: agriculture, land and the South African economy. Nieuwoudt, L. & Groenewald, J. (eds). Durban: University of Natal Press.
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Mashinini, M.S., Sithole, M.M. & Mabuza, M.L. (2011) Contribution of input trade fairs to food security in rural Swaziland: case study of households under the Ngwempisi constituency. African Journal of Agricultural Research. 6(10):2436-2446.
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The objective of the study was to determine the contribution of input trade fairs (ITFs) to household food security in rural Swaziland. Given the prevailing drought condition, a number of interventions, including ITFs, have been attempted to mitigate the effects of natural disasters on the livelihoods of rural households. Through a survey of 92 randomly selected households, a regression model w...
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Matshe, I. (2009) Boosting smallholder production for food security: some approaches and evidence from studies in sub-Saharan Africa. Agrekon. 48(4):483-511.
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This paper uses the sustainable livelihoods framework to explore the contribution of smallholder production to food security in some sub-Saharan African countries and relates it to the South African case. Noting that many of the world's hungry are smallholder farmers, it is clear that food insecurity is closely linked to the livelihood strategies of these farm households. As previous studies ha...
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Matshe, I. (2009) Contribution of smallholder production to food security: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa. (March).
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This paper explores the contribution of smallholder production to food security in sub-Saharan Africa and relates it to the South African case. Noting that the world's hungry are smallholder farmers, it is established that food insecurity is closely linked to the livelihood strategies of these farm households. It is apparent, however, that part of what drives food insecurity is poverty, and tha...
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Mazibuko, S. (2008) Social functions of natural resources in the Tembe area of Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of Social Development in Africa. 23(1):61-88.
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People living adjacent to the Tembe Elephant Park in Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa are highly dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods. The extremely high employment levels in the area mean that the people need to engage in multiple activities to diversify risks. The area is generally poor in terms of agricultural activity because the soils are naturally unsuitable for...
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Mini, S. & Randela, R. (2004) Farming together: the triumphs and failures of joint farming ventures. HSRC review. 2(4):4-5.
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Mthethwa, T., Du Toit, A., De Swardt, C., Mbhele, T. & Aliber, M. (2004) Trends and policy challenges in the rural economy: four provincial case studies. (February).
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This chapter seeks to summarize and synthesize the findings from the four provincial case studies, as well as put the case studies' findings into perspective by looking at evidence from national-level data sets. The chapter is organized according to the four main themes touched upon in this exercise, that is, labor absorption in commercial agriculture's mall-scale/subsistence agriculture, the ...
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Ntsebeza, L (2007) Land-reform politics in South Africa's countryside. Peace review: a journal of social justice. 19(1):33-41.
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Randela, R. (2003) The incidence of post-harvest problems among small farmers surveyed in three regions of the Limpopo province. Agrekon. 42 (2):163-180.
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High yielding varieties and new production technology have vastly increased the world's agricultural production and provided rural incomes and affordable food for large parts of the population. While production research has received considerable attention, until recently, post harvest activities have not received much attention. Post harvest research has significant contribution towards the a...
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Stoop, W. & Hart, T. (2005) Supporting farmer innovation: bridging the gap between scientific theory and the diverse farming practices of smallholders. (Paper presented at the HSRC Winter Conference, Birchwood Conference Centre, Boksburg, 27-28 July).
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Todes, A., Kok, P., Wentzel, M., Van Zyl, J. & Cross, C. (2008) Contemporary South African urbanisation dynamics. (Paper for UNU-WIDER conference: Beyond the Tipping Point. African Development in an Urban World. 21 June).
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