Agrarian reform and South Africa's agro-food system

Greenberg, Stephen

doi:10.1080/03066150.2014.993620

Cited by 27 publications

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“…We are in agreement with Battersby 8 and Greenberg 14 that the informal food retail sector must be considered when determining factors that drive food insecurity. The inefficient working of the spaza shops value chain was identified in Avian Park as an area that needs attention.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

Food availability and accessibility in the local food distribution system of a low-income, urban community in Worcester, in the Western Cape province

Roos

Ruthven

Lombard

et al. 2013

South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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Objectives: The objective was to understand the local food distribution system in Avian Park, with a focus on food availability and accessibility. Study design:This was a quantitative food store survey that employed semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions. Setting:The study was conducted in Avian Park, situated in the Breede Valley, in the Western Cape province.Subjects: Thirteen spaza shops, three chain supermarkets, three street vendors, two butchers, two wholesalers, a community café and a small, independent supermarket randomly selected from the community were included. Food retail outlet managers and community residents were also included.Outcome measures: The outcome measures were food prices, availability, and access and quality.Results: The café stocked 56% of the surveyed food items, spaza shops 66% and the supermarket 69%. Spaza shops stocked sweetened products, basic staples and processed food. A variety of vegetables was available at the café and supermarket, with less variety in the spaza shops. Processed and staple food was most expensive in the spaza shops, while fruit and vegetables were generally cheaper. Food prices were below the national average in all of the food categories, except for bread, cereals, grains, sweets and sugar. Interviews with shop owners indicated that fruit and vegetables were not kept because of spoilage, space limitations, storage issues and lack of transport. Focus group discussions with residents indicated a need for fruit, vegetables and meat outlets within walking distance.Conclusion: Community food prices were not the main factor inhibiting food accessibility, but rather variety and quality.

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confidence: 73%

Food availability and accessibility in the local food distribution system of a low-income, urban community in Worcester, in the Western Cape province

Roos

Ruthven

Lombard

et al. 2013

South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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“…From a departmental perspective, agriculture is viewed as an economic growth sector on a regional, provincial and national level. This is based on national and provincial development plans as well as the economic and political narrative of land redistribution as a means of social justice and development (Greenberg, 2015;National Planning Commission, 2012). However, didactical approaches must reflect the structure of the agricultural sector in South Africa and the overall needs and structural challenges of marginalised rural areas.…”

Section: The Sprouting Entrepreneurs Programmementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the project area, land is distributed through a communal system which features only small-holder farming and restricts the expansion of agricultural businesses. The economic potential of small-scale farming is challenged by liberalisation and deregulation in the agricultural sector, as well as concentrated and integrated value chains (Greenberg, 2015). Agriculture holds the potential for job creation, but at low wages and subject to economic and environmental risks (Cousins, Genis, & Clarke, 2018).…”

Section: The Sprouting Entrepreneurs Programmementioning

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A Capability Approach to Entrepreneurship Education: The Sprouting Entrepreneurs Programme in Rural South African Schools

Forcher-Mayr

Mahlknecht

2020

Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education

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AbstractSprouting Entrepreneurs is a three-year teaching programme for rural primary and secondary schools that focuses on entrepreneurship in agriculture. It addresses the South African real-life challenges of food insecurity, youth unemployment and rural poverty from a classroom perspective, by linking agriculture, food and entrepreneurship as main learning areas. This paper outlines the programme in its local social and economic context. It argues for the need for a concept of entrepreneurship education that views opportunities in the context of young people’s positive freedoms. Its didactical model combines the EntreComp framework with the capability approach developed by Amartya Sen and others. It emphasises the role of capabilities or freedoms in developing and implementing ideas that create value for others. The Sustainable Development Goals form a medium of learning.

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“…Farms are neighborhoods that constitute the foundations of well-being and identity of those who grow up on them (AFRA, 2005 [99]). Together with deep connections to graves and the recreation of these links through ongoing burial practices, " [1] and ties people to their histories" (Greenberg, 2015: 975 [2]), and this is an important centripetal force to take note of. Our data shows that farm dwellers assert 'home' as a place that belongs to them, based on histories to specific land that are re-enacted through ceremonies in the present, along with entitled remuneration for a life of labour.…”

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“…Some things are more certain, however. Three key features of South Africa's agrarian economy 24 years into democracy are the persistence of a racially skewed distribution and structure of land ownership with most rural people living on state land under traditional authorities and accessing land through (neo-) customary processes (Hornby et al, 2017 [1]); concentration, centralisation, and integration of agricultural capital creating a globally competitive but highly capital intensive and labour shedding agro-food regime (Greenberg, 2015 [2]); and, the ongoing evictions of farm dwellers from commercial farms despite tenure reform laws, with totals exceeding evictions from a decade prior to 1994 and greater than the number of beneficiaries of land reform policies (Wegerif et al, 2005 [3]). …”

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A Slipping Hold? Farm Dweller Precarity in South Africa’s Changing Agrarian Economy and Climate

Hornby

Nel

Chademana

et al. 2018

Land

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Abstract:The paper investigates whether farm dwellers in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province of South Africa are subject to a "double exposure": vulnerable both to the impacts of post-apartheid agrarian dynamics and to the risks of climate change. The evidence is drawn from a 2017 survey that was undertaken by the Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA), which is a land rights Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), of 843 farm dweller households. Data on the current living conditions and livelihoods was collected on 15.3% of the farm dweller population in the area. The paper demonstrates that farm dwellers are a fragmented, agricultural precariat subject to push and pull drivers of mobility that leave them with a precarious hold on rural farm dwellings. The key provocation is that we need to be attentive to whether the hold farm dwellers have over land and livelihoods is slipping further as a result of instability in the agrarian economy? This instability arises from agriculture's arguably maladaptive response to the intersection of structural agrarian change and climate risk in post-apartheid South Africa. While the outcomes will only be apparent in time, the risks are real, and the paper concludes with a call for agrarian policy pathways that are both more adaptive and achieve social justice objectives.

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Agrarian reform and South Africa's agro-food system

Cited by 27 publications

References 12 publications

Food availability and accessibility in the local food distribution system of a low-income, urban community in Worcester, in the Western Cape province

Food availability and accessibility in the local food distribution system of a low-income, urban community in Worcester, in the Western Cape province

A Capability Approach to Entrepreneurship Education: The Sprouting Entrepreneurs Programme in Rural South African Schools

A Slipping Hold? Farm Dweller Precarity in South Africa’s Changing Agrarian Economy and Climate

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