Forage conservation in sub‐Saharan Africa: Review of experiences, challenges, and opportunities

M Balehegn, A Ayantunde, T Amole, D Njarui… - Agronomy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Forage conservation is an important potential solution to seasonal variation in feed quality
and quantity and herder‐farmer conflicts in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Considerable …

Productivity and constraints of small-scale crop farming in the summer rainfall region of South Africa

VN Mathinya, AC Franke… - Outlook on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The South African policy sphere hails the commercialisation of small-scale farming as the
answer to a myriad of socio-economic, ecological and political challenges of rural …

A typology of emerging farmers in three rural provinces of South Africa: what are the implications for the land redistribution policy?

S Zantsi, LP Pienaar, JC Greyling - International Journal of Social …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose Understanding diversity amongst potential beneficiaries of land redistribution is of
critical importance for both design and planning of successful land reform interventions. This …

An exploration of government administrative processes in supporting agro-smallholders' access to municipal markets in eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal …

JC Nyawo, BC Mubangizi - Africa's Public Service Delivery & …, 2021 - apsdpr.org
Background: The government's inability to ensure that both the local and the national
markets adequately accommodate smallholder producers is inhibiting the sector's ability to …

The effectiveness of the 4ir technologies in elevating small-scale farming at Kwadlangezwa, Kwazulu natal in South Africa

TL Mtshali, NN Jili - … Journal of eBusiness and eGovernment Studies, 2022 - sobiad.org
With the emergence of new technologies from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Industrial
Revolutions, the productivity increase of agricultural and farming activities has been crucial …

Utilizing the water-land-food security nexus to review the underperformance of smallholder farmers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

HB Tantoh, TJM McKay - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Supporting agriculture is crucial if food security and poverty alleviation are to be assured. In
that regard two crucial aspects-water and land are central to supporting smallholder farmers …

Motivational factors into agriculture as a career path: Narratives of Black emerging farmers as entrepreneurs in South Africa

Z Mpetile, W Chinyamurindi - … Communities: People and Places in the …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The transformation of the agricultural landscape is deemed as an essential nation-
building priority in post-democratic South Africa. Part of the activity of transformation is …

Towards a viable farm size–determining a viable household income for emerging farmers in South Africa's Land Redistribution Programme: an income aspiration …

S Zantsi, G Mack, N Vink - Agrekon, 2021 - journals.co.za
The purpose of this article is to propose an improved methodology to determine a viable
farm size for potential emerging farmers as land reform beneficiaries. Land reform in South …

The Political Economy of Land Reparations in South Africa

LL Pheko - Development and Change, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines white settler colonialism and racial capitalism as the primary
mechanisms for the historical and ongoing land dispossession of Afrikan people in South …

A review of possibilities for using animal tracking devices to mitigate stock theft in smallholder livestock farming systems in rural South Africa

S Zantsi, T Nkunjana - South African Journal of Agricultural Extension, 2021 - ajol.info
Stock theft is among the major challenges faced by livestock farmers in South Africa. It has
severe consequences especially for smallholder farmers, who collectively own a large share …