The Massive Food Production Programme:

Jacobson, Klara

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“…Projects and programmes are often hamstrung by their paucity of local consultation and understanding of rural lives and livelihoods, simultaneously with a tendency to narrowly focus on local 'mindsets' for identifying both problems and solutions, ignoring wider structural contexts and determinants. 23 The result is a litany of failed agricultural interventions within the Eastern Capeincluding the Massive Food Production Programme (MFPP); 24 the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa, Eastern Cape (AsgiSA EC) 25 and the Siyazondla Homestead Food Production Programme. 26 Attempts at job creation, including tourism development interventions, 27 microfinance for selfemployment and community-based work creation initiatives, 28 and the parastatal Magwa Tea plantation 29 suffer similar weaknesses.…”

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“…Interventions ought to ensure that efforts are either focused on enhancing local food security, or on producing a marketable product. Previous research has shown that adaptation to local conditions and insufficient attention to marketing is a recurrent weakness of agricultural 89 and income-generation projects. 90 Despite their relative remoteness, processes of change and contingency loom over both villages.…”

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Changing Livelihoods in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing Employment and Expanding Social Protection

Hajdú

Neves

Granlund

2020

Journal of Southern African Studies

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Despite long-standing patterns of agrarian change in South and Southern Africa, rural locales remain home to millions of people, characterised by widespread poverty and vulnerability. This is evident in South Africa's former 'homelands', the site where this study examined changes in rural livelihoods over a 14-year period. Detailed survey data (collected in 2002 and 2016) from two villages in the Pondoland region of Eastern Cape province, and augmented by in-depth fieldwork, are analysed to explore the drivers of contemporary livelihood change. Key livelihood activities are examined, namely paid employment, social grant receipt, horticulture and livestock production, marine-resource and firewood harvesting. So too are changes within, and between, these diverse livelihood activities over time. Both monetised (income-earning) activities, and 'unremunerated' or unmonetised activities (for example, subsistence agriculture or marine-resource harvesting) are measured, aggregated and compared, in order to consider the drivers, consequences and prospective future trajectories of livelihood change. Key findings for impoverished households in the villages are that waged work has decreased significantly, while expanding social welfare provision has prevented plunges into deeper poverty. Agriculture and marine-resource harvesting remain dynamic, albeit unevenly engaged in by villagers. Amid these larger patterns, local-level variations are evident, with discrepant employment and agricultural production patterns across villages. The role of the state is ambiguous, being both a restrictor and enabler of local livelihoods. As jobs and other livelihood opportunities diminish, the villagers express frustration with the state, but remain simultaneously heavily reliant on state fiscal transfers, through grants and public employment schemes. The findings speak not only to the dynamics of rural livelihoods in South Africa's former homelands; they also point to changes in rural dwellers' livelihoods, within contexts of agrarian change, rural

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Section: Literature Review: Changing Livelihoods In Rural Eastern Capementioning

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Section: Conclusion: Changing Rural Livelihoods and Future Trajectoriesmentioning

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Changing Livelihoods in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing Employment and Expanding Social Protection

Hajdú

Neves

Granlund

2020

Journal of Southern African Studies

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“…The category "frequently" excludes labour that is hired seasonally, or only for soil preparation or harvest, for example. The intensive nature of dairy farming also explains why frequent labour is hired as opposed to seasonal labour.7 SeeJacobson (2013) andMtero (2015) on the Massive Food Production Programmes and De Klerk (2013) andFay (2013) on the Siyazondla Homestead Food Production Programme. 8 A household survey and interviews confirmed that besides the land rental fees that Shiloh's customary landowners receive for their food plots from the JV, no other rental or sharecropping arrangements were found at either Shiloh or Keiskammahoek.…”

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A methodology for class analysis: Agricultural investments and agrarian change in South Africa

Bunce

2022

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This paper presents a class-analytic approach, which combines a "labour exploitation criterion" with class typologies developed for the South African context and the author's additions. The labour exploitation criterion distinguishes between rural classes based on the degree to which one employs others, works for others, or works for oneself. I combine the principal indicator of "labour exploitation" with the income contributions of social grants, ownership of farming assets and livestock, and the contribution of agricultural production to simple or expanded reproduction. Debates around class formation are explored in the context of a comparative analysis of two joint venture (JV) dairy farms, located in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, which involve residents as both landowners and workers. A class-analytic approach illuminates the emerging agrarian class structure that a JV-type intervention both reflects and in turn conditions, in dialectical fashion, with important implications for debates around agrarian change in South Africa.

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The Massive Food Production Programme:

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Changing Livelihoods in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing Employment and Expanding Social Protection

Changing Livelihoods in Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa (2002–2016): Diminishing Employment and Expanding Social Protection

A methodology for class analysis: Agricultural investments and agrarian change in South Africa

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