Agrarian Challenges in South Africa
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Channel: NewsClickin · 2014 · News & Politics
Mercia Lydia Andrews from the Trust for Community Outreach and Education, South Africa, speaks to Newsclick about the challenges in the agrarian sector in South Africa. She says despite the end of apartheid 20 years back, the situation in the countryside hasn't changed all that much. Land is still owned largely by the white South African commercial farmers. In fact, 80% of agricultural land is in their hands. Agriculture is still very skewed and there is dualism -- on one hand small farmers are farming on the margins with very little support and on the other there is very big commercial, highly mechanized agriculture. Andrews underlines that we must have common platforms around which we can build people-people solidarity across the world and learn from each other how to forge alternatives to the common enemies. Such platforms must have the interests of poor as opposed to the interests of profit very high on the agenda, she says.
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