Trends and Policy Challenges in the Rural Economy: Four Provincial Case StudiesExamining the economic survival strategies of rural South Africans, this study sheds light on their experiences in respect to four areas of activity: employment in commercial agriculture, small-scale agriculture, non-farm micro-enterprise, and participation in government projects. Four provincial case studies--Limpopo, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal--form the basis of the report, which looks at the challenges facing public policies that address poverty. |
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activities adults agricultural labour Amahlubi average Bella Vista cent of households Ceres chronic poverty Ciskei commercial agriculture commercial farming community gardens community members cultivation decline Dendron Depaarl Dihlophaneng community economic employed engage in agriculture externalisation extra source farm employment farm management farm workers farmworkers Figure food security form of employment Grabouw hectare Hibberdene household income household members Income quintile increase indicated individuals interviewed KwaZulu-Natal labour absorption labour contractors labour force status Labour Force Survey lack land large livestock Lebowa Limpopo Province LIMPUST livestock ownership Macambini main source maize micro Mount Frere district Mthethwa Nduli NILF number of household off-farm on-farm permanent workers Polokwane poor production provincial case studies reason relative respondents rural economy rural households rural micro-enterprise sector self-employment shops Skhonyana small-scale agriculture social grants source of food South Africa Statistics South Africa Table town of Dendron transition trend Umzumbe Western Cape women
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