Institutional constraints to small farmer development in Southern Africa

✍ Scribed by Ajuruchukwu Obi, Tebogo Seleka (auth.), Ajuruchukwu Obi (eds.)

• Publisher: Wageningen Academic Publishers
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Investigating institutional constraints to smallholder development: the issues and antecedents....Pages 19-38
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
Rural household sources of income, livelihoods strategies and institutional constraints in different commodity contexts....Pages 41-70
Determinants of household activity choice, rural income strategies and diversification....Pages 71-85
Rural income dynamics in post-apartheid South Africa: implications for reduction of poverty and income inequality....Pages 87-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Influence of institutional factors on smallholder farmers ’ marketing channel choices....Pages 101-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Marketing challenges and opportunities faced by the Nguni cattle project beneficiaries in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa....Pages 121-135
Welfare and incentive efects of possible changes in the regulatory environment of the maize market in Swaziland....Pages 137-165
Obstacles to the profitable production and marketing of horticulture products in Lesotho: an offset-constrained probit modelling of farmers’ perception....Pages 167-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
The land question in smallholder development in South Africa....Pages 187-229
Institutional factors in natural resource management in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa....Pages 231-269
Front Matter....Pages 271-271
Recent changes in markets and market relationships and lessons for the design of effective support programmes....Pages 273-296
Livelihoods, institutions and the small farmer....Pages 297-314
Back Matter....Pages 315-352

✦ Subjects

Life Sciences, general