Joint ventures in the flag Boshielo irrigation scheme, South Africa: A history of smallholders, states and business

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dc.contributor.authorvan Koppen, Barbara
dc.contributor.authorTapela, Barbara Nompumelelo
dc.contributor.authorMapedza, Everisto
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-14T08:20:54Z
dc.date.available2019-03-14T08:20:54Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn the global debates on the modes of farming, including irrigated farming, that are viable for the majority of rural people, three models prevail: (i) smallholder family farming; (ii) farming led by agribusiness’ capital, technologies, and forward and backward linkages in an estate mode; and (iii) agribusiness-led farming in an out-grower mode. In South Africa, these three and more modes of irrigated agriculture have been implemented. In the colonial era, in most of the country, the state supported a white-dominated estate mode of farming based on wage labor. Smallholder family farming remained confined to black people in the former homelands. Smallholder irrigation schemes in the former homelands were out-grower schemes, managed by the colluding apartheid state, white agribusiness and irrigation industry. Since independence in 1994, the search for viable modes of farming and irrigation is high on the policy agenda. This is part of the envisaged transition of the state into a tripartite constellation of citizens, state and service providers that delivers accountable, outcome-based services.en_US
dc.identifier.citationvan Koppen, B. et al. (2015). Joint ventures in the flag Boshielo irrigation scheme, South Africa: A history of smallholders, states and business. Research Report 171. Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4509
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch Report;171
dc.subjectBoshieloen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectIrrigated farmingen_US
dc.subjectHomelandsen_US
dc.subjectIrrigation schemeen_US
dc.titleJoint ventures in the flag Boshielo irrigation scheme, South Africa: A history of smallholders, states and businessen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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