Good policies and incentives needed to end South Africa’s agricultural dualism

At the dawn of democracy, few probably thought that nearly three decades on, South Africa would still be battling with the phenomenon of ‘two agricultural systems’.

Some progress has been made, with a number of black farmers joining commercial production and supply chains. However, the combination of poor and slow implementation of land reform, inefficient government decisions and support systems, bureaucratic delays, and the misfortunes of drought and disease has entrenched the divide between