Should subsistence agriculture be supported as a strategy to address rural food insecurity?

By Michael Aliber, Tim Hart. 2009

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Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’ in South Africa (2013, background): “…engaged in small-scale farming has remained at more or less the same level over the past decade and a half, and that land reform so far is widely acknowledged as failing to create conditions for successful small-scale farming (Aliber and Hart 2009; Hall 2009; Aliber and Hall 2010; Greenberg 2010).”
Cropland Abandonment in South African Smallholder Communal Lands: Land Cover Change (1950–2010) and Farmer Perceptions of Contributing Factors (2018, background): “The pervasive local trend of cropland abandonment is likely to increase as national interventions in South Africa to reverse the trend of agricultural disengagement have been largely unsuccessful [5,76].”
Rural Livelihoods in South Africa: Complexity, Vulnerability and Differentiation (2013, unknown): “Ranging from smallholder agricultural production (Aliber et al. 2006;Aliber and Hart 2009) to the intensive cultivation of homestead plots (Andrew and Fox 2004), and practices of natural resource harvesting (Shackelton et al. 2001), land remains an important component in the livelihood repertoires…”