Rural entrepreneurship: An analysis of current and emerging issues from the sustainable livelihood framework

A Tabares, A Londoño-Pineda, JA Cano… - Economies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Most entrepreneurship studies have an urban focus, and it is studied mainly from the
perspective of opportunity exploitation. Rural entrepreneurship presents different …

Psychological capital and climate change adaptation: Empirical evidence from smallholder farmers in South Africa

U Chipfupa, A Tagwi, E Wale - Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2021 - scielo.org.za
There are calls for better empirical models to inform climate change adaptation in
smallholder agriculture. Hitherto adaptation studies have failed to comprehensively integrate …

Livelihood capital, ecological cognition, and farmers' green production behavior

J Ren, H Lei, H Ren - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Green development of agriculture is inevitable to meet the objective demand of rural
ecological environment protection and high-quality agricultural development. Livelihood …

Youth's participation in agriculture: A fallacy or achievable possibility? Evidence from rural South Africa

U Chipfupa, A Tagwi - South African Journal of Economic and …, 2021 - scielo.org.za
BACKGROUND: The realisation of more youth involvement in the agricultural sector has
proved to be elusive, so the question of the possibility of a youth-led agriculture needs …

Youths' perceptions and aspiration towards participating in the agricultural sector: A South African case study

JIF Henning, N Matthews, M August, P Madende - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Agriculture is considered as a leading source of employment while ensuring food security to
the world and especially rural communities. However, the youth do not appear to be …

[HTML][HTML] Smallholder satisfaction with the quality of agricultural information, and their preferences among the sources: Empirical evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South …

E Wale, E Mkuna - Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Potentially, smallholder agriculture remains a significant sector in the South African
economy because of its central role in developing a healthy economy in terms of improving …

Towards identifying enablers and inhibitors to on-farm entrepreneurship: evidence from smallholders in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

E Wale, U Chipfupa, N Hadebe - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Enabling on-farm entrepreneurship is an important step to enhance the contribution of
smallholder agriculture to rural employment and poverty reduction in South Africa. Using …

Rural youth interest in economic activities along the agricultural value chain: empirical evidence from KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and implications

R Baloyi, E Wale, U Chipfupa - International Food …, 2023 - wageningenacademic.com
Identifying which agricultural activities rural youth would be interested to participate in and
understanding which factors are enabling and constraining their participation is essential in …

A more grounded view of 'farmer entrepreneurship': how Zimbabwean smallholder farmers fundamentally differ in their entrepreneurial behaviours

T Manyise, D Dentoni, J Trienekens - Journal of Entrepreneurship in …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the entrepreneurial behaviours exhibited by
commercial smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe, focusing on their socio-economic …

Entrepreneurship concepts/theories and smallholder agriculture: insights from the literature with empirical evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

E Wale, U Chipfupa - Transactions of the Royal Society of South …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Unlocking on-farm entrepreneurship is said to be fundamental for employment creation in
the smallholder sector and for rural poverty reduction. However, policy-relevant knowledge …