DEFINING SMALL-SCALE FARMERS IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT

Defining Small-scale Farmers in the South African Context

South African agriculture is comprised of mainly two categories of farmers -the subsistence farmers in the former homeland areas and the large-scale commercial (mainly white) farmers. This is in contrast with the situation in many other countries in the world where one would find a whole range of farm sizes, ranging from the very small or subsistence farmer to the very large farmer/agribusiness...

Demand for Institutional Credit from the Nacrdb by Small Scale Farmers in Imo State, Nigeria.

This study was designed to investigate the demand for institutional credit among small scale farmers in Imo State. A sample of 40 livestock and 50 food crop farmers were selected respectively using multistage random sampling technique. Data were collected with a well structured questionnaire administered to a total of 90 randomly selected farmers. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive ...

Developing generalism in the South African context.

The largest impact on the South African burden of disease will be made in community-based and primary healthcare (PHC) settings and not in referral hospitals. Medical generalism is an approach to the delivery of healthcare that routinely applies a broad and holistic perspective to the patient's problems and is a feature of PHC. A multi-professional team of generalists, who share similar values ...

Asthma in the South African Context

There are two important principles in treating any disease: firstly, putting together the constellation of symptoms, signs and results of any specific investigations and coming up with a diagnosis or short differential diagnosis; and secondly, planning a rational course of therapy, be this short or long term, medical or surgical. In South Africa we face a third and crucial addition to these pri...

Sexual health in the South African context.