Small Scale Farmer

Smallholder farmers who have benefitted from the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development’s (DALRRD) R1.2 billion covid-19 relief fund say they can finally breathe easier again. After weeks...

The Afasa Poultry Producers National Poultry Task Team (APP-NPTT), a new representative body created by poultry farmer members of the African Farmers Association of South Africa (Afasa) is set to...

More than four decades ago residents from Lawaaikamp in George in the Western Cape were faced with being forcefully removed from their homes in this shanty town. Amongst these residents...

When Eugene Simons was retrenched in 2004, along with her husband who worked at the same organic farm, all she thought about was her next move. Instead of retaliating with...

Tucked away in the magnificent Cederberg Mountain Range in the Western Cape hides one of Mzansi’s oldest and most historic villages – Wupperthal. The small community is home to 75...

Imagine waking up one morning and being told by your father that he’s appointing you as foreman over your family’s vegetable farm. You just turned 18 and are at the...

In South Africa, there are approximately two million small-scale or household farmers. Most of these farmers are in rural areas and are isolated from key markets and services considered essential...

“We have moved on from pap. We also bake bread and my children showed me how make a kind of a flat cake – you know, a wrap which you...

If you saw him on a tractor ploughing the fields or harvesting grapes his life may seem ordinary. But Christie Davids has beaten the odds by proving time and time...

“Farming was part of a long list of chores we had to do growing up. We had no idea that what started out as a few ordinary, mundane tasks would...