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Cookie cutter cooperatives in the KwaZulu-Natal school nutrition programme

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  • Alan Beesley
  • Richard Ballard

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This article examines an initiative by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government to increase the income opportunities emerging from the school feeding programme. Since the inception of the programme, small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) have been enlisted to provide schools with ingredients. However, in 2006 the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government replaced some SMMEs with women's cooperatives. By 2009, 12 of the original 42 cooperatives had collapsed, and some schools serviced by the cooperatives complained of unreliable delivery of ingredients. This article examines the interface between policy and implementation through a case study of four cooperatives in one district. Our data suggest that some cooperatives struggled to take root as a result of a variety of factors which we discuss under the themes of viability, membership and skills. The top-down creation of these cooperatives according to inflexible guidelines also resulted in significant problems.

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  • Alan Beesley & Richard Ballard, 2013. "Cookie cutter cooperatives in the KwaZulu-Natal school nutrition programme," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(2), pages 250-261, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:30:y:2013:i:2:p:250-261
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2013.801195
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    1. Clement Mensah & Abdulrazak Karriem, 2021. "Harnessing Public Food Procurement for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in South Africa through the National School Nutrition Programme: A Qualitative Assessment of Contributions and Challenges," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-14, December.

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