Unlocking markets to smallholders Lessons from South Africa /

This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: van Schalkwyk, Herman D. (Editor ), Groenewald, Jan A. (Editor ), Fraser, Gavin C.G (Editor ), Obi, Ajuruchukwu (Editor ), van Tilburg, Aad (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers : Imprint: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Colección:Mansholt Publication Series ; 10
Temas:
Life sciences.
Life Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Market access, poverty alleviation and socio-economic sustainability in South Africa
  • 2. Strategies to improve smallholders? market access
  • 3. Influence of institutional and technical factors on market choices of smallholder farmers in the Kat River Valley
  • 4. Technical constraints to market access for crop and livestock farmers in Nkonkobe Municipality, Eastern Cape province
  • 5. Smallholders and livestock markets
  • 6. Unlocking markets to smallholder farmers: the potential role of contracting
  • 7. Food retailing and agricultural development
  • 8. Unlocking credit markets
  • 9. Governance structures for supply chain management in the smallholder farming systems of South Africa
  • 10. Smallholder market access and governance in supply chains
  • 11. Factors unlocking markets to smallholders: lessons, recommendations and stakeholders addressed
  • About the authors
  • Index.

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