South Africa's annual population growth rate, in the traditional sector, is 3.5% (1980- 2000), a rate similar to those experienced in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and over which the World Bank has expressed concern. For the purposes of this study, economic factors explaining family size...

Hail insurance is provided by the private sector in South Africa but crop insurance (drought insurance) programmes, after a promising start, failed to attract customers. A crop insurance programme (drought) for small-scale commercial farmers, who are not yet paying tax, has been recommended to...

Review of: Land, Labour and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa. Volume 1: Western Cape and Volume 2: KwaZulu -Natal and Northern Province. Edited by Michael Lipton, Mike de Klerk and Merle Lipton. Indicator Press 1996.

In a recent report to government, an Income Equalisation Deposit (IED) Scheme for commercial farmers and crop insurance for small scale farmers have been recommended as risk management strategies. An IED has been considered in the past in South Africa but rejected largely due to tax...