Analysing challenges facing smallholder farmers and conservation agriculture in South Africa: A system dynamics approach

W Von Loeper, J Musango, A Brent… - South African Journal of …, 2016 - journals.co.za
Smallholder farmers in South Africa find it challenging to participate in the modern economy.
Most of these farmers have limited access to credit and insurance, and to markets in which to …

Addressing food and nutrition security in South Africa: A review of policy responses since 2002

S Boatemma, S Drimie… - African Journal of …, 2018 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Since 2002, a range of South African policies have attempted to address the
disproportionate burden of food and nutrition insecurity on the population. Yet malnutrition …

Food security in South Africa: Status quo and policy imperatives

S Hendriks - Agrekon, 2014 - journals.co.za
Although the term itself was only developed in the 1970s, food security has played a central
role in policies that have shaped the history of South Africa from the 17 th century. As with …

An easy and effective method to modulate molecular energy level of the polymer based on benzodithiophene for the application in polymer solar cells

M Zhang, X Guo, W Ma, S Zhang, L Huo… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers constructed by the donor-acceptor (DA) approach [1, 2] have attracted
considerable attention for applications in polymer solar cells (PSCs), due to their easily …

The determinants of market participation and its effect on food security of the rural smallholder farmers in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, South Africa

SI Hlatshwayo, TO Ojo, AT Modi, T Mabhaudhi… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Addressing the disproportionate burden of food insecurity in South Africa requires targeted
efforts to help smallholder farmers to access markets. The purpose of this study was to …

[PDF][PDF] The future of South Africa's food system: What is research telling us

LM Pereira - SA Food Lab South Africa, 2014 - bio-economy.org.za
The vitally important provision of food through the food system is not a simple linear process,
but a contested outcome of a complex system. This systematic literature review was …

Creating enhanced capacity for Local Economic Development (LED) through collaborative governance in South Africa

RD Kamara - 2017 - scholar.sun.ac.za
The complexities of the twenty-first century have paved way for the emergence and
proliferation of cross boundary collaboration in the lexicon of localised and territorial …

Household vulnerability to food insecurity in rural South Africa: evidence from a nationally representative survey data

S Mthethwa, E Wale - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Using a nationally representative dataset from rural areas in South Africa, the study
examines vulnerability to food insecurity using the Vulnerability as Expected Poverty …

The complex challenge of governing food systems: The case of South African food policy

SB Kushitor, S Drimie, R Davids, C Delport, C Hawkes… - Food security, 2022 - Springer
International experience reveals that food policy development often occurs in silos and
offers few tangible mechanisms to address the interlinked, systemic issues underpinning …

A high molecular weight triisopropylsilylethynyl (TIPS)-benzodithiophene and diketopyrrolopyrrole-based copolymer for high performance organic photovoltaic cells

JH Kim, M Lee, H Yang, DH Hwang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
A high-molecular-weight conjugated polymer consisting of alternating TIPS-substituted
benzo [1, 2-b: 4, 5-b′] dithiophene (BDT) and diketopyrrolo [3, 4-c] pyrrole (DPP) was …