Empowerment of Women through Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP) in Gauteng Province, South Africa

Understanding land reform and the associated consequences for land use and livelihoods

“…Low involvement of private organisations could be attributed to lack of incentives for their involvement, given that beneficiaries would likely not be able to pay for their services because of the limited beneficiaries' gains from land reform farms (Valente 2011;Lahiff and Li 2012;Aliber and Cousins 2013;Netshipale et al 2020a (DLA 2006;Nesamvuni et al 2016b). We conclude that the extent of involvement of external stakeholders and the type of support they provided to farmers in land reform farms were guided by their mandates or objectives.…”

“…When assessing constraints of land reform farms, we neither observed gender specific constraints nor were they expressed by the respondents. The lack of gender specific financial challenges, in South Africa, could be because (a) post-settlement support for women was prioritised (Nesamvuni et al 2016b) and there were funding initiatives targeting women, like the Isivande Women's Fund (Government Investment Incentives 2020), and (b) 'there was no gender gap in access to credit' (Fanta and Mutsonziwa 2016). South Africa's land reform seems to be a positive deviation from the general situation, as in developing countries women were more adversely affected by limited access to financial services than men (Fanta and Mutsonziwa 2016;Holloway et al 2017;Trivelli et al 2018;Hendriks 2019).…”

“…We could not find literature addressing pests as a constraint for land reform farms. The observed low prevalence of lack of equipment and implements (25.8%) could be because farmers received physical capital support from the state, over the years (Business Enterprises 2015; Nesamvuni et al 2016b). We concluded that pests were the main constraint faced by farms with crop and horticulture.…”