Greenberg, Stephen2013-04-232013-04-232010Greenberg, S. (2010). Contesting the food system in South Africa: issues and opportunities. Research Report no. 42. PLAAS, University of the Western Cape978-1-86808-713-6http://hdl.handle.net/10566/572This report widens the debate about food production and distribution in South Africa to consider some of the entrenched power dynamics that shape the way these happen, and to consider whether a more radical transformation of the agro-food system is required to ensure adequate access to food for all.It considers the structure of the South African agro-food system, and looks at points of possible intervention that could not only open the system to greater involvement by those who have been marginalised or passively incorporated into that system, but that also offer potential pathways to structural change that could deepen diversity in the agro-food system and reorient it to the needs of the poor, both as historically subordinated producers and as consumers.enCopyright PLAAS, University of the Western Cape. This file may be freely used provided that the source is acknowledged. No commercial distribution of this text is permitted.Agro-food systemsCommodity chainsApartheidValue chainsGovernment interventionResearch Report