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Pushing and pulling

Pushing and pulling
Attempts to stimulate smallholder agriculture in metropolitan Cape Town

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Date of publication
Agosto 2008
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Pages
32

This case study provides a comparative analysis of two different initiatives designed to grow small
scale agricultural production in Cape Town.

The City of Cape Town has developed an urban agriculture policy and initiated a joint venture between itself, the Provincial Department of Agriculture and private sector partners to put in place a fresh produce market in the Philippi horticultural area. The objective of the market is to provide the “suction force to enable the establishment of more than 2 500 emerging farmers and the development of more than 5 000 hectares of farmland over a five-year period in the Philippi and Cape Flats area.”

Abalimi Bezekhaya an NGO with over 20 years experience in supporting homestead growers and group gardens. It has focused on developing a comprehensive range of services to promote and ‘push’ small farmers to find their place in a production continuum encompassing survivalist, subsistence, livelihood and commercial modes of production.

 

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Rick de Satge with Boyce Williams

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