Rural households livelihoods' strategies and opportunities with regard to farming: a case of Intsika Yethu Local Municipality

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dc.contributor.advisorObi, A.en
dc.contributor.authorGidi, Lungile Sivuyileen
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-28T10:30:59Z
dc.date.available2026-07-28T10:30:59Z
dc.date.issued2013en
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa and other developing countries are grappling with high levels of poverty as a result of slow to negligible rural development. Irrigation development is one essential component that can be used to address the challenges faced by smallholder farmers in rural areas. In the President‟s “State of the Nation Address” in 2011, the President of South Africa outlined measures to reduce hunger and poverty in communal areas through enhanced government‟s expenditures in rural infrastructure developments, especially for such amenities as irrigation and roads, with a view to promoting food security. The broad objective of this study is to assess livelihood strategies and opportunities with regard to farming in Qamata area of Intsika Yethu Local Municipality. The stratified random sampling method was applied in order to choose a sample of 70 household that were interviewed by means of semi-structured questionnaires. Out of these, 53 belonged to the irrigation project and 17 farmers were non-irrigation farmers. The results show that women play an active role in agriculture. The Multiple Regression model was used to assess the relative importance of different livelihood strategies adopted by both irrigation and non-irrigation farmers in improving household food security and welfare in Qamata. More specifically, the study assessed the impact of different livelihood strategies on production of butternut, goats, maize and poultry (Chicken) in Qamata. The results show increased agricultural production, crop diversification and higher incomes from irrigation farming as compared to dry land farming. Irrigation farming has enabled many households to diversify their sources of income and therefore include activities and enterprises that contribute to enhanced household welfare. The study showed that household size is crucial in crop production, followed by gender of the household head. The government and research institutes need to come up with programmes to train people on ways to produce crop and livestock products more efficiently.en
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dc.identifier.citationGidi, Lungile Sivuyile. 2013en
dc.identifier.othervital:11199en
dc.identifier.otherhttp://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007218en
dc.identifier.otherPoverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.identifier.otherAgricultural productivity -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.identifier.otherCommunity development -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.identifier.otherFood security -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.identifier.otherRural development -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.identifier.otherHouseholds -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.identifier.otherSustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.identifier.otherQamataen
dc.identifier.otherLivelihood strategiesen
dc.identifier.otherIrrigation farmers and cropen
dc.identifier.otherLivestock productionen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/4206
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherUniversity of Fort Hareen
dc.publisherFaculty of Science & Agricultureen
dc.rightsUniversity of Fort Hareen
dc.subjectPoverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.subjectAgricultural productivity -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.subjectCommunity development -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.subjectFood security -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.subjectRural development -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.subjectHouseholds -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.subjectSustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Capeen
dc.subjectQamataen
dc.subjectLivelihood strategiesen
dc.subjectIrrigation farmers and cropen
dc.subjectLivestock productionen
dc.titleRural households livelihoods' strategies and opportunities with regard to farming: a case of Intsika Yethu Local Municipalityen
dc.title.alternativeRural households livelihoods' strategies and opportunities with regard to farming: a case of Intsika Yethu Local Municipalityen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.typeMastersen
dc.typeMSc Agric (Agricultural Economics)en

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