Joint ventures and livelihoods in emerging small-scale irrigation schemes in Greater Sekhukhune District: Perspectives from Hereford
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2005
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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Small-scale irrigation farming is
envisaged as playing a progressively
larger role in rural development
and in reducing some of the inequalities
inherent in South Africa’s space economy.
The promotion of entry by black farmers
into commercialised small-scale irrigation
farming appears to have been bolstered by
the late 1990s convergence of agricultural,
water, land, local government and other
sector reforms. Concomitant to these reforms,
the government’s macro-policy shifts seem
to favour the creation of a black farming
elite, and an important question centres on
the possible negative impacts of neo-liberal
policies on the livelihoods of the poorest
and most vulnerable people within smallscale
irrigation farming communities. It is
also debatable whether a new class of petty
commodity producers can establish a viable
niche within global commodity chains,
given the significant constraints to effective
participation in a highly competitive and
globalised commodity production sector.
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Irrigation schemes, Greater Sekhukhune District, South Africa, Sustainable rural livelihoods, Resource-poor
Citation
Tapela, Barbara N. (2005). Joint ventures and livelihoods in emerging small-scale irrigation schemes in Greater Sekhukhune District: Perspectives from Hereford. Research Report 21. Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape