The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa

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Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “Access to food is often measured using proxy, entitlements-based indicators such as food consumption, food price monitoring, income, or assets (Webb et al. 2006; Baiphethi and Jacobs 2009; Renzaho and Mellor 2010).”
Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’ in South Africa (2013, background): “Informal fresh produce markets are efficiently supplied by small-scale irrigation farmers, who could probably begin to supply more formal and specialized markets too, but this is likely to require targeted support and interventions (Louw et al. 2007; Baipethi and Jacobs 2009).”
The Crisis of Food Insecurity in African Cities (2012, background): “Even in South Africa, where any chance of smallholder agriculture meeting the food needs of the rural (let alone the urban) poor is extremely remote, this solution is being advocated.(22,23) Others are more sceptical, arguing that the idea of a green revolution is misplaced and that it will not feed”
Food security in rural areas of Limpopo province, South Africa (2013, methodology): “Several authors (e.g. Hart 2009; Altman et al. 2009; Jacobs 2009; Baiphethi 2009) point out that this variation in the results obtained is because each survey probes a different dimension of food security (food expenditure, hunger and household food production) thereby using different indicators/mea”