Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This report widens the debate about
food production and distribution in South Africa
to consider some of the entrenched power dynamics that shape the way these happen, and to
consider whether a more radical transformation
of the agro-food system is required to ensure adequate access to food for all.It considers the structure of the
South African agro-food system, and looks at
points of possible intervention that could not
only open the system to greater involvement by
those who have been marginalised or passively
incorporated into that system, but that also offer potential pathways to structural change that
could deepen diversity in the agro-food system
and reorient it to the needs of the poor, both as
historically subordinated producers and as consumers.Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo, and the source of the funds, the Norwegian government,
through the Norway-South Africa Programme
