How effective is local beneficiation policy in enhancing rural income and employment?: the case of agro-processing beneficiation in Tzaneen, South Africa
SOURCE: Local Economy
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2019
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Habiyaremye, E.Mupela
KEYWORDS: BENEFICIATION PROCESS, INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT, JOB CREATION, RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10907
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/14073
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/14073
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2019
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Habiyaremye, E.Mupela
KEYWORDS: BENEFICIATION PROCESS, INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT, JOB CREATION, RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 10907
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/14073
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/14073
If you would like to obtain a copy of this Research Output, please contact Hanlie Baudin at researchoutputs@hsrc.ac.za.
Abstract
Confronted with a sluggish growth and very high rates of rural unemployment, South Africa has put local beneficiation at the core of its strategy for employment-intensive re-industrialisation. Its industrial policy action plan identified agro-processing as one of the priority areas for this strategy because of its potential employment multiplier in rural areas. Despite the appeal of its industrialisation potential, beneficiation strategy is often contested and its effectiveness as a viable engine of industrialisation in African countries is recurrently questioned. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the income and employment effects of an agro-processing beneficiation programme launched by the Department of Science and Technology for the processing of abundant mango harvest in the area of Tzaneen in Limpopo province. Using inverse probability weighting estimation on a sample of 385 households residing in and around the beneficiation target area, we find clear positive income effects of the agro-processing project for the beneficiary households. The success of this project in the domestic and international agro-processing markets suggests that local beneficiation strategy can provide a sound basis for rural industrialisation if adequately prepared.-
Related Research Outputs:
- Sector strategies for employment creation: construction, social services and food
- Advocacy document: youth education, livelihoods and employment
- Employment and basic needs: a framework for job creation in construction, social services and food
- The state of employment
- Employment and skills in South African exports
- Employment creation through the provision of social development services: exploring the options
- Early childhood development: a case for upscaling employment opportunities in the sector
- Evaluation of the learnership academy model
- School-to-work transition and labour market intermediation in a developing context: career guidance and employment services
- South Africans pin job creation hopes on 2010
- Appropriate analytical tools for economy-wide analysis of employment creating policies in South Africa
- Budgeting for job creation in social welfare services: exploring EPWP opportunities
- Increasing access to employment through government programmes: experience with expanded public works programme and community development workers
- The business of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in the social sector
- Youth and poverty reduction strategy processes in sub-Saharan Africa
- Poverty diagnostics using poor data: strengthening the evidence base for pro-poor policy making in Lesotho
- Identifying employment-creating sectors in South Africa: the role of services industries
- "Red door" SMME development strategy: impact study report
- Rural municipality case studies: land reform, farm employment and livelihoods
- Sectoral growth and employment prospects