The Struggles of Smallholder Farmers: A Cause of Modern Agricultural Value Chains in South Africa

Wolfgang Johann von Loeper, James Blignaut and Scott Drimie

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Abstract: The potential of sustaining smallholder farmers (SHFs), for long-term food security remains, within the context of rising modern food value chains, particularly in Africa, a threat. Support for a greener, lower carbon economy that creates jobs and improves human well-being as part of a sustainable and socially inclusive stable economic development should be driven, at least in part, by SHF.

Keywords: smallholder farmers; food security; agricultural finance; inclusive socio-economics; food safety; land ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.75710

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