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Alcock, R., Burgess, R., Letsoalo, E., Hart, T., de Villiers, H., Saruchera, M. & Sithole, V. (2004) Prolinnova South Africa: PROromoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management. (Catalogue of farmer innovations). Pretoria: Agricultural Research Council.
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Aliber, M. (2009) Exploring statistics: South Africa's national household surveys as sources of information about food security and subsistence agriculture. (March).
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This paper seeks to complement CPEG?s broader investigation into food security in South Africa by exploring the usefulness of some of Statistics South Africa's (Stats SA's) household surveys as sources of information about household-level food insecurity and the related theme of subsistence agriculture. Notwithstanding their limitations, these surveys have the potential advantage of being large...
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Aliber, M. (2009) Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government's second economy strategy. (March).
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Aliber, M., Baipheti, M. & Jacobs, P. (2007) Agricultural employment scenarios. (August).
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This paper seeks to re-examine the potential of agriculture to contribute to job creation and poverty reduction in South Africa. It does so mainly through simple spreadsheet-based 'scenario analysis' that seeks to illustrate what is conceivable, complemented by commentary as to what is feasible and likely. It is a re-examination in the sense that there have been various earlier attempts to do m...
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Aliber, M. (2007) A proposed system of M&E indicators for the DoA and the agricultural sector. (Paper presented on the 28 August, Department of Education).
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Aliber, M., Makomane, C., Mazibuko, S. & Roefs, M. (2006) Establishing baseline statistics and data collection methods for the monitoring and evaluation system of the National Department of Agriculture: final draft. (Submitted to Department of Agriculture, Directorate: Monitoring and Evaluation, July).
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The Department of Agriculture is seeking to develop a comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system through which to measure and track its progress in respect of its vision and mission. As an intermediate step in this large task, in 2005 the Department sought to define performance measures/indicators linked to objectives as set out in its 2005 Strategic Plan. The Department commissione...
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Aliber, M. & Makomane, C. (2006) Farmland price trends in South Africa, 1994-2005. (Commissioned by the Department of Land Affairs, September).
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Aliber, M. (2006) Small-scale agriculture and micro-enterprise remain best hope for rural poor. HSRC review. 4(1):6-7.
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Employment is declining in the commercial farming sector, aggravating an already difficult situation in rural areas. MICHAEL ALIBER shares the findings of a report that investigates the impact of this decline in four provincial cases studies.
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Aliber, M., Baiphethi, M. & Jacobs, P. (2009) Agricultural employment scenarios. In: Hall, R. (ed). Another countryside?: policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa. Cape Town: PLAAS: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies. 133-163.
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This chapter seeks to re-examine the potential of agriculture to contribute to job creation and poverty reduction in South Africa. It does so mainly through a simple scenario-analysis that seeks to illustrate that is conceivable, complemented by commentary as to what is feasible and likely.
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Aliber, M.A. (2003) Small-scale agriculture as revealed by the labour force survey. (Think piece written for the National Employment & Unemployment Statistics working group February 2003).
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Aliber, M.A. (2003) Testimony before the TCOE tribunal. (Testimony on the 11 December 2004).
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Altman, M. (2008) Revisiting South African employment trends in the 1990s. South African Journal of Economics. 76(2):March.
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This article revisits South African employment trends recorded since 1995. In particular, it investigates whether the job losses and gains recorded by the October Household Survey jobs in the mid-1990s reflect the reality. This is done by comparing the different official data sets, and by exploring alternative sources of information for three sectors that substantially influenced this trend, na...
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Aphane, M. (2010) Comparing trends in global and domestic mango commodity chains. (Paper presented at the NRF/RCN feedback workshop, Regent Hotel, East London, 7 October).
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Baiphethi, M.N. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa. (March).
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The main aim of this paper is to discuss the contribution of availability of, and access to, improved farm inputs for subsistence/smallholder farmers to improving household food production, and hence food security. This will feed into consideration
of the broader questions concerning possible policy interventions to mitigate against the impacts of increased food prices for both the rural and u...
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Berry, A. (2008) Growth, employment and distribution impacts of minerals dependency: four case studies. South African Journal of Economics. 76(2):March.
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Cross-country evidence on the direct and indirect impacts of minerals dependency on growth suggests that the typical effect may be negative, and the experience in some countries implies large negative effects. Countries heavily endowed with exportable natural resources cannot take it for granted that this will assist them on the path to development. This study focuses on four countries, Indone...
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de Klerk, M., Drimie, S., Aliber, M., Mini, S., Mokoena, R., Randela, R., Modiselle, S., Vogel, C., de Swardt, C. & Kirsten, J. (2004) Food security in South Africa: key policy issues for the medium term. (Position paper for the National Treasury, January).
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Drimie, S. (2003) HIV/AIDS and new agricultural strategies for sub-Saharan Africa. (Paper presented at the workshop hosted by the Centre for Policy Analysis and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations on CUREMIS II, Accra, Ghana, 12 13 June).
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Earle, N. & Paterson, A.N.M. (2007) The shape of demand for high-level agricultural skills in the South African labour market. Development Southern Africa. 24(4):575-593.
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Gastrow, M., Kruss, G., Muller, L. & Roodt, J. (2011) Impact of networks, globalisation and their interaction with EU strategies (INGINEUS project): research papers on "fragmentation of GINs and capacity building in the automotive, ICT and agro-processing industries". (Commissioned by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme).
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The methodological framework of this work package consisted of empirical inputs from the INGINEUS survey, desk research, and in-depth firm-level case studies. Desk research included background reports on foreign direct investment and education and training systems from each of the developing country partners (see D6.2). The primary source of data is the case studies. Of these,
five were 'match...
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Hart, T. & Aliber, M. (2011) Prevailing inequalities in the provision of agricultural support in South Africa. (Paper presented at the HSRC Social Sciences Conference, Birchwood Conference Centre, Benoni, 7-8 September).
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Hart, T. (2010) Against the odds: rural women who drive food and nutrition security in their communities. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:111-120.
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Despite the international right to food, many African and South African women face serious challenges in providing food for their families. In particular, these challenges relate to institutional and cultural barriers which restrict their access to education, land, credit and official support services. Despite this prevailing situation, some women are acknowledged as being successful in address...
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Hart, T. & Aliber, M. (2010) The need for an engendered approach to agricultural technology. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 84:75-90.
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Given the large numbers of South African women involved in some form of agriculture, this Focus argues that a more engendered approach is required for the introduction of agricultural technology in rural areas. Such an approach would make agricultural technology more appropriate to the requirements, roles and responsibilities of female producers. While a number of women are engaged in commercia...
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Hart, T. (2010) Some considerations for supporting household food production in South Africa. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:78-95.
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Recent research on food security in South Africa indicates that household food production is important to household food security in rural areas. While this highlights the constraints experienced by such producers and the contribution of African leafy vegetables to household food security, seemingly little research has considered the gender dimension of this type of agricultural production. Wit...
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Hart, T. (2009) Fruit - general. In: National Research Directory. Pretoria: Rainbow South Africa. 186-189.
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Deciduous fruit is grown mainly in the Western Cape, as well as in the Langkloof Valley in the Eastern Cape. Significant table and dried grapes production areas are also along the Orange River and in the Free State, Mpumalanga and Gauteng. Citrus is mainly produced in the irrigation areas of the Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Eastern and Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Subtropical crops such as avoca...
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Hart, T. & Vorster, H.J. (eds). (2007) African indigenous knowledge systems in agricultural production: a consultative report for Department of Science and Technology, National Indigenous Knowledge Sytems Office (NIKSO), Pretoria, South Africa. Pretoria: Department of Science and Technology (DST).
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Hart, T. (2007) The socioeconomics of subsistence farmers and the contribution of the social sciences to agricultural development. In: Ntutela, S., Gevers, W. & Ramaite, R. (eds). Science-based improvements of rural/subsistence agriculture: forum proceedings. Pretoria: Academy of Science of South Africa. 69-82.
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Hart, T., Burgess, R., Beukes, O. & Hart, C. (2006) Reducing pitfalls in agricultural development projects: a case for the participatory project management cycle (PPMC). In: Cornwell, L. (ed). Development projects: a reader. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press. 60-77.
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The management of agricultural projects is a factor that can contribute to their success or failure. In worst-case scenarios poorly managed projects seem to continue with a life of their own and without clear direction. In the cycle of agricultural development projects, including programmed extension, major pitfalls can occur of the necessary phases are ignored or incorrectly implemented. Th...
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Hart, T. (2006) The socioeconomics of subsistence farmers. (Paper presented to the ASSAF Workshop, Department of Science and Technology, 18 October).
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Hart, T. (2006) Synergy of science and tradition can yield improved nutrition. HSRC review. 4(4):14-15.
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A study of two villages in the Mopane district of Limpopo has shown that indigenous knowledge integrated with scientific know-how can optimise agricultural production and help alleviate poverty in agrarian households.
TIM HART and INEKE VORSTER compiled a valuable record of indigenous (or local) knowledge relating to the production of African vegetable crops.
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Hart, T. & Burgess, R. (2005) Across the divide: the impact of farmer-to-farmer linkages in the absence of extension services. (Paper presented at the 39th annual conference of the South African Society for Agricultural extension, President Hotel, Bloemfontein, Free State, 9-12 May).
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This paper, in the form of a case study, describes the context, initial linkage and relationship between two apple farmers, one a large-scale commercial producer and the other a smallholder in the south-western cape deciduous fruit producing areas.
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Hart, T. & Mouton, J. (2005) Indigenous knowledge and its relevance for agriculture: a case study in Uganda. Indilinga-African journal of indigenous knowledge systems. 4(1):249-263.
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Hart, T. (2005) Local innovations using traditional vegetables to improve soil quality. IK notes. 79:1-4.
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Hart, T., Burgess, R. & Hart, C. (2005) A participatory project management cycle: can it add value to agricultural development?. South African journal of agricultural extension. 34(2):201-220.
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Hart, T., Burgess, R., Beukes, O. & Hart, C. (2005) Reducing pitfalls in agricultural development projects: a case for the participatory project management cycle (PPMC). South African journal of agricultural extension. 34(1):104-121.
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Hart, T., Billet, A. & Burgess, R. (2005) South Africa: a smallholder's innovative approach to producing and exporting fruit. IK notes. 78:1-4.
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Hart, T. (2005) What does PROLLINNOVA mean?. (Presentation to the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), Roodeplaat Research Forum, Pretoria, 11 March).
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Hart, T. & Burgess, R. (2004) How a smallholder farmer entered and remained in the export market for thirty years. (Paper presented in a presentation made at the PROLLINOVA SA training feedback workshop at Pietermaritzburg, 10-11 November).
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Hart, T.G.B. (2011) The significance of African vegetables in ensuring food security for South Africa's rural poor. Agriculture and Human Values. 28(3):321-333.
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Technologies and services provided to resource-poor farmers need to be relevant and compatible with the context in which they operate. This paper examines the contribution of extension services to the food security of resource-poor farmers in a rural village in South Africa. It considers these in terms of the local context and the production of African vegetables in household food plots. A mixt...
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Hart, T.G.B. (2007) Local knowledge and agricultural applications: lessons from a Ugandan parish. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension. 36:229-248.
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A multidisciplinary team of agricultural researchers worked with residents of a rural parish in south-western Uganda to generate local knowledge about the diverse use of plants identified as African vegetables. While some were sold at the commercial fresh produce market in Kampala most were cultivated for household consumption. Some plants had properties which, when planted in specific ways, ...
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Hart, T.G.B. & Burgess, R.P. (2006) Across the divide: the impact of farmer-to-farmer linkages in the absence of extension services. South African journal of agricultural extension. 35(1):12-22.
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Hart, T.G.B. & Vorster, H.J. (2006) The importance of indigenous knowledge in reducing poverty of rural Agrarian households. (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, May).
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the report starts by describing the three different types of agriculture that are currently practiced worldwide and looks at an international understanding of indigenous knowledge, while raking not of the current ways in which indigenous knowledge is considered for the purposes of integrating it with scientific knowledge.
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Hart, T.G.B. & Vorster, H.J. (2006) Smallholder potato production activities in South Africa: a socio-economic and technical assessment of five cases in three provinces. (Commissioned by the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), December).
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Hart, T.G.B. (2005) Visit to Italy for the purpose of attending 18th Symposium of the International Farming Systems Association at the Salesianum, Rome. (27 October to 7 November).
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Integrated Rural and Regional Development (2003) Land redistribution for agricultural development: case studies in three provinces: final report, October.
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The goal of the present study has been to shed light on the operations of land redistribution for agricultural develepment (LRAD) in a context in which very little is known about how the delivery process and the projects themselves are playing out on the ground. The guiding purpose has been to provide baseline information to sharpen the conceptualisation and delivery of LRAD. The intention is t...
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Jacobs, P. (2011) Agricultural market reforms and the rural poor in South Africa. (Paper presented at the Norway Seminar, Oslo, Norway, 29 April).
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Jacobs, P. (2011) Determinants of output prices in local sheep markets: a case study of Joe Xabi & Amathole Eastern Cape. (Paper presented at the UMB-Noragric Seminar, 29 April).
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Jacobs, P. (2009) Identifying targets for household food security in South Africa. (March).
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This paper is organised as follows: Section 2 investigates the basic composition of food security targets. It underscores the importance of household characteristics and contextual determinants of food insecurity. Given the centrality of measurable
indicators on which to base any food security target, section 3 presents a critical evaluation of three classes of food security indicators: food a...
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Jacobs, P. (2009) South Africa's agro-food sector and the global economic downturn. (Paper presented at the HSRC Conference, Birchwoord Conference Centre, Benoni, 17 September).
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Jacobs, P. & Aliber, M. (2007) Scenarios for livelihood creation in agriculture. (Paper presented at a conference on Another Countryside? Policy options for Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa, Somerset West, 24-25 October).
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Janse van Rensburg, E., Hattingh, J. & O'Donoghue, R. (eds). (2002) Environmental education, ethics and action in southern Africa. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.
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Environmental practitioners open a window onto environmental challenges in diverse African contexts. Non-specialists and scholars can see how Malawian officials and community leaders, new to multi-level governance, take up the challenge of environmental management in villages and districts; Ugandan small-scale farmers in partnership with NGOs try to produce sustainably for household and interna...
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Kahn, M. & Burns, A. (2005) Agricultural research expenditure. (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, 13 December).
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Kahn, M. (2005) Agriculture & R&D. (Paper presented a the National Agriculture Research Forum workshop, Pretoria, 26 October).
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Khosa, M.M. (2001) Towards an institutional framework for managing agricultural export trade. In Empowerment through economic transformation. Khosa, M.M. (ed). Durban: African millenium. 175-212.
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Makhura, M. & Mokoena, M.R. (2003) Market access for small-scale farmers in South Africa. In The challenge of change: agriculture, land and the South African economy. Nieuwoudt, L. & Groenewald, J. (eds). Durban: University of Natal Press.
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Mokhele, T.A. (2011) Potential health effects of pesticide use on farmworkers in Lesotho. South African Journal of Science. 107(7/8):Online.
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This study examined the experiences of farmworkers during crop spraying in Lesotho. The main goal of this study was to determine the perceptions and awareness of farmworkers regarding the use of pesticides and the potential effects on their health. The data were obtained from farmworkers using a combination of an open-ended and a close-ended structured questionnaire in July 2006. Of the nine fa...
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Mokoena, R. & Aliber, M. (2005) Definitions of the performance measures/indicators for the strategic plan of the National Department of Agriculture. (Report for the Department of Agriculture, 14 November).
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Mokoena, R. & Mashamaite, P. (2005) Interrogating the effects of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements on agricultural sector trade in South Africa. (Paper delivered at the HSRC Conference, Birchwood Conference Centre, Benoni, 27-28 July).
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Mokoena, R., Jooste, A. & Alemu, Z.G. (2005) Reciprocal preferential tariff quotas and market access for selected agricultural products under the EU-SA TDCA: is the trade divide being bridged?. (Paper presented at the AEASA Conference, Polokwane, Limpopo Province, 21-23 September).
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Mokoena, R. (2005) Trade policy and trends in the South African agriculture. (Paper presented at the AEASA workshop, Polokwane, Limpopo, 21 September).
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Mokoena, R. (2003) Deterioration of agricultural support services. (Commissioned by the National Treasury).
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Monde, N., Fraser, G., Botha, J.J. & Anderson, K. (2006) Making home gardening a viable livelihood option in rural areas of South Africa: the case of Guquka and Khayalethu in central Eastern Cape. (Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities, Steven's Point, Wisconsin, USA, 26-30 June).
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Mthethwa, T., Du Toit, A., De Swardt, C., Mbhele, T. & Aliber, M. (2004) Trends and policy challenges in the rural economy: four provincial case studies. (February).
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This chapter seeks to summarize and synthesize the findings from the four provincial case studies, as well as put the case studies' findings into perspective by looking at evidence from national-level data sets. The chapter is organized according to the four main themes touched upon in this exercise, that is, labor absorption in commercial agriculture's mall-scale/subsistence agriculture, the ...
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Njiwa, D., Kumwenda, I., Thindwa, I., Chilonda, P., Olubode-Awosola, F. & Davids, A. (2008) Monitoring trends in public spending on agriculture: the case of Malawi. (ReSAKSS Working Paper; no. 9, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI), September).
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This report presents the results of studies that explore trends in the magnitude, share and compositions of public spending on the agriculture sector in Malawi which comes under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (crops, livestock and irrigation), Fisheries and Forestry. The aim of the studies was to analyze the recent trends in levels of public spending in agriculture and the
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Randela, R. (2003) Integration of small-scale cotton producers into the South African commercial agricultural economy. (Paper presented at the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 5 September 2003).
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Setswe, G. & Zungu, L. (2008) Can SA lay claim to a 'sanitary revolution'?. The Water Wheel. March/April:34-35.
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The South African government has committed itself to wiping out the country?s water and sanitation backlogs. Much progress has been made since 1994, but can South Africa lay claim to a `sanitary revolution??. This article investigates this question.
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Shapiro, Y.T. (1999) Graduates in agricultural occupations on the HSRC register of graduates as at November 1999. (Contact GIS Centre for access rights on 012-3022014).
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Database report on graduates in agricultural occupations on the HSRC Register of Graduates as at November 1999
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Stoop, W. & Hart, T. (2006) Research and development towards sustainable agriculture by resource-poor farmers in sub-Saharan Africa: some strategic and organisational considerations in linking farmer practical needs with policies and scientific theories. International journal of agricultural sustainability. 3(3):206-216.
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Streak, J., Dawes, A., Ewing, D., Levine, S., Rama, S. & Alexander, L. (2008) Children working in the commercial and subsistence agriculture in South Africa: a child labour-related rapid assessment study. (TECL report, no. 52). Pretoria: Department of Labour.
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The present report is the final one for the research project on child work and labour in agriculture commissioned by the Towards the Elimination of Child Labour (TECL) Programme in South Africa in May 2006. It was conducted by a team of researchers led by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), and is organised as follows:
1. Section 1, the Introduction, explains the definitions of child w...
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Streak, J. (2007) Harvesting childhood: causes, nature and impact of child agricultural labour. HSRC Review. 5(3):6-8.
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The 1999 survey of activities of young people in South Africa, conducted by Statistics South Africa, found agriculture to be the third largest employer of children and the nature of employment in commercial agriculture to be high-risk labour. The author shares new research conducted on the child agricultural work and labour in three selected sites in South Africa.
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Vorster, H.J. & Hart, T.G.B. (2007) Improving the effectiveness of research and extension by evaluating a situation holistically before acting: a case study. (Proceedings of the 41st Conference of the South African Society of agriculture extension, Golden Horse Casino, Pietermaritzburg, 8-10 May).
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Weir-Smith, G. (2009) Assessment of public expenditures in agriculture in Mozambique: project report of the GIS component of the study. (Prepared for the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (ReSAKSS-SA), March).
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This report covers the geo-spatial activities component of the study and is therefore only a sub-component of the study and is therefor only a sub-component of the complete work. The aim of this study is to enable stakeholders to take informed decisions pertaining to agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction.
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Wentzel, M. (2004) Technology transfer for poverty reduction: case studies for the agriculture, healthcare, and energy sector studies. (Report commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, Pretoria, September).
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Zingel, J. & Pienaar, D. (2003) From on-farm to off-farm: the role and capacity of agricultural workers unions in land reform in South Africa.
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