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

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.

• Publication year

  2018

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• Publication date

  2018-04-26

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Business, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.75710
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