The case for re-strategising spending priorities to support small-scale farmers in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorHall, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorAliber, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-11T10:16:13Z
dc.date.available2019-03-11T10:16:13Z
dc.date.issued2010-04
dc.description.abstractThis paper summarises what is known about South Africa’s public expenditure trends in respect of small-scale farmers, and discusses the growing contradictions between the policy priority placed on small-scale farming and the adequacy of support provided to small-scale farmers. It then proceeds to argue that: i) dramatic increases in public expenditure support to small-scale agriculture are highly unlikely, while further incremental increases to support the sector will in themselves make little difference; ii) a lot of the money already available to support small-scale agriculture is not well spent, with a particular imbalance evident between relatively large amounts of support to badly conceptualised land reform projects at the expense of black farmers in the ex-Bantustans; iii) there is an urgent need to shift the emphasis of support from on-farm infrastructure and inputs, to community-level infrastructure, market development and institutional re-engineering.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAliber, M., Hall, R. (2010). ‘The case for re-strategising spending priorities to support small-scale farmers in South Africa’, Working Paper 17. PLAAS, UWC, Cape Town.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4475
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paper;17
dc.subjectExpenditure trendsen_US
dc.subjectSmall-scale farmingen_US
dc.subjectOn-farm infrastructureen_US
dc.subjectCommunity-level infrastructureen_US
dc.subjectMarket developmenten_US
dc.titleThe case for re-strategising spending priorities to support small-scale farmers in South Africaen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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