Unlocking markets to smallholders

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-12

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2. Market access, poverty alleviation and socio-economic sustainability in South Africa

   • Ajuruchukwu Obi, Herman D. van Schalkwyk, Aad van Tilburg

   Pages 13-33

3. Strategies to improve smallholders’ market access

   • Aad van Tilburg, Herman D. van Schalkwyk

   Pages 35-58

4. Influence of institutional and technical factors on market choices of smallholder farmers in the Kat River Valley

   • Bridget Jari, Gavin Fraser

   Pages 59-89

5. Technical constraints to market access for crop and livestock farmers in Nkonkobe Municipality, Eastern Cape province

   • Ajuruchukwu Obi, Peter Pote

   Pages 91-112

6. Smallholders and livestock markets

   • Jan A. Groenewald, André Jooste

   Pages 113-131

7. Unlocking markets to smallholder farmers: the potential role of contracting

   • Jan A. Groenewald, Jacobus Klopper, Herman D. van Schalkwyk

   Pages 133-148

8. Food retailing and agricultural development

   • Lindie Stroebel, Herman D. van Schalkwyk

   Pages 149-173

9. Unlocking credit markets

   • Jan A. Groenewald, Andries J. Jordaan

   Pages 175-192

10. Governance structures for supply chain management in the smallholder farming systems of South Africa

    • Ajuruchukwu Obi

    Pages 193-218

11. Smallholder market access and governance in supply chains

    • Aad van Tilburg, Litha Magingxa, Emma V. Kambewa, Herman D. van Schalkwyk, Alemu Zeruhin Gudeta

    Pages 219-241

12. Factors unlocking markets to smallholders: lessons, recommendations and stakeholders addressed

    • Aad van Tilburg, Ajuruchukwu Obi

    Pages 243-254

13. Back Matter

    Pages 255-268

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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 business with the support of special government programs. Public support programs have been developed as part of the Black Economic Empowerment strategy of the South African government. These programs aim to improve the performance of emerging farmers. This requires, first and foremost, upgrading the emerging farmers skills by providing access to knowledge about agricultural and entrepreneurial practices. To become or to remain good farmers they also need access to suitable agricultural land and sufficient water for irrigation and for feeding their cattle. Finally, for emerging farmers to be engaged in viable farming operations, various factors need to be in place such as marketing and service institutions to give credit for agricultural inputs and investments; input markets for farm machinery, farm implements, fertilizers and quality seeds; and accessible output markets for their end products. This book develops a policy framework and potential institutional responses to unlock the relevant markets for smallholders.

• University in South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

  Herman D. Schalkwyk

• University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  Jan A. Groenewald

• University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  Gavin C. G. Fraser

• Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa

  Ajuruchukwu Obi

• Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  Aad Tilburg

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