- Title
- Smallholder tobacco production and sustainable agriculture: A case of the Karoi district, Zimbabwe
- Creator
- Serima, Joseph
- Subject
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Zimbabwe
- Subject
- Sustainable development -- Zimbabwe
- Subject
- Farms, Small
- Date Issued
- 2015-02
- Date
- 2015-02
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25370
- Identifier
- vital:64233
- Description
- Over the past decades, cash cropping had been dominant in many developing economies. In Zimbabwe, tobacco has been an important cash crop for the majority of smallholder farmers. The crop generates large profits as compared to the next best alternative cash crop and it is an important source of government revenue. Many smallholder farmers have thus resorted into tobacco farming because of accrue benefits attached to the crop. In addition to large profits, the availability of incentives which support production of this crop has also been a motive for many smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. Contrary to the availability of incentives to support tobacco production, the lack of government subsidies has discouraged smallholder farmers to engage into food crop productions. However, despite their increased interest in tobacco farming, many smallholder farmers have remained poor. They continue to live in poverty, even though they produce an important cash crop for export. Food security in the country has been deteriorated because of concentrations in cash cropping. Therefore, this study has been undertaken to investigate whether the commercialization of the peasant farmer has been responsible for the food crisis that the country is experiencing at present. The study utilized the neo-classical theory of farm production to clarify the reasons why peasant producers engage into certain types of production. However, to balance this study with an attempt of promoting sustainable agriculture, the study also employed the sustainable development approach.
- Description
- Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2015
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (112 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management and Commerce
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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