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  title info:
    title: Unlocking markets to smallholders
    sub title: Lessons from South Africa
  name:
    name part: Schalkwyk, Herman D. van.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Groenewald, Jan A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Fraser, Gavin C. G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Obi, Ajuruchukwu.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Tilburg, Aad van.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: Approx. 270 p. 12 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their business with the support of special government programs. Public support programs have been developed as part of the Black Economic Empowerment strategy of the South African government. These programs aim to improve the performance of emerging farmers. This requires, first and foremost, upgrading the emerging farmers skills by providing access to knowledge about agricultural and entrepreneurial practices. To become or to remain good farmers they also need access to suitable agricultural land and sufficient water for irrigation and for feeding their cattle. Finally, for emerging farmers to be engaged in viable farming operations, various factors need to be in place such as marketing and service institutions to give credit for agricultural inputs and investments; input markets for farm machinery, farm implements, fertilizers and quality seeds; and accessible output markets for their end products. This book develops a policy framework and potential institutional responses to unlock the relevant markets for smallholders.
  table of contents: Preface -- 1. Market access, poverty alleviation and socio-economic sustainability in South Africa -- 2. Strategies to improve smallholders? market access -- 3. Influence of institutional and technical factors on market choices of smallholder farmers in the Kat River Valley -- 4. Technical constraints to market access for crop and livestock farmers in Nkonkobe Municipality, Eastern Cape province -- 5. Smallholders and livestock markets -- 6. Unlocking markets to smallholder farmers: the potential role of contracting -- 7. Food retailing and agricultural development -- 8. Unlocking credit markets -- 9. Governance structures for supply chain management in the smallholder farming systems of South Africa -- 10. Smallholder market access and governance in supply chains -- 11. Factors unlocking markets to smallholders: lessons, recommendations and stakeholders addressed -- About the authors -- Index.
  note: edited by Herman D. van Schalkwyk, Jan A. Groenewald, Gavin C. G. Fraser, Ajuruchukwu Obi, Aad van Tilburg.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  classification: QH301-705
  classification: 570
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Mansholt Publication Series ; 10
  identifier: 9789086861682
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-168-2
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    record creation date: 120310
    record change date: 20151204151559.0
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