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Expenditure Patterns Of Agricultural Households In Lebowa And Venda: Effects Of The Farmer Support Programme On Food Security

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  • Dankwa, K. B.
  • Sartorius von Bach, H. J.
  • van Zyl, J.
  • Kirsten, J. F.

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The specific objective of this paper is to determine expenditure patterns of rural households with a view to evaluating factors which make households more food secured. Expenditure patterns of households participating in the Farmer Support Programme of DBSA were analysed and compared with no-participants in two areas, Lebowa and Venda. It is evident from the results of this study that a high proportion of rural households in Lebowa and Venda food insecured. Results also show that the provision of support services to subsistence farmers will help alleviate food insecurity.

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  • Dankwa, K. B. & Sartorius von Bach, H. J. & van Zyl, J. & Kirsten, J. F., 1992. "Expenditure Patterns Of Agricultural Households In Lebowa And Venda: Effects Of The Farmer Support Programme On Food Security," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 31(4), December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:agreko:267541
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.267541
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    1. Kaneda, Hiromitsu & Johnston, Bruce F., 1961. "Urban Food Expenditure Patterns in Tropical Africa," Food Research Institute Studies, Stanford University, Food Research Institute, vol. 2(3), pages 1-47.
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    1. Drimie, Scott & Germishuyse, T. & Rademeyer, L. & Schwabe, Craig, 2009. "Agricultural production in Greater Sekhukhune: the future for food security in a poverty node of South Africa?," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 48(3), pages 1-31, September.

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