Farmer's Weekly

A review of A Country of Two Agricultures

In his second book, titled A Country of Two Agricultures, Wandile Sihlobo identifies bottlenecks in the agricultural value chains that are sustaining the duality problem in the country. These range from the deteriorating farm and off-farm infrastructure, institutional and market failures, land and finance hunger amongst black farmers, and the biosecurity threats that are compounded by climate change and limited access to technologies.

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