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Impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security : comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43).
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| author | Musuna, Sophia |
| author2 | Muchapondwa, Edwin |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43). |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/5730 Impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security : comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe Musuna, Sophia Muchapondwa, Edwin Economics Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43). Agricultural credit has been seen as an important vehicle in agricultural development as it fosters adoption of advanced and more modern technology (Schultz, 1964). The problem which continues to haunt the smallholder farmers in developing countries has been identified to be the slow pace of adopting modern agricultural technology, and this severely impacts on their production levels causing high levels of poverty in this sector. This author attributes this problem to the inequality associated with the distribution of credit between commercial and smallholder farmers which then distorts its much acclaimed role in attainment of food security. Smallholder farmers are those farmers with 30 or less hectares of land for use in any agricultural activity (crop production or cattle rearing) and commercial farmers have more than 30 hectares (according to the Zimbabwean farming sectors). This paper analyzes the impact of the inequality in distribution of credit on food security and welfare using a case of farmers in Zimbabwe. 2014-07-31T12:24:22Z 2014-07-31T12:24:22Z 2007 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5730 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Economics Musuna, Sophia Impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security : comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security : comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe |
| title_full | Impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security : comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe |
| title_fullStr | Impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security : comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security : comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe |
| title_short | Impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security : comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe |
| title_sort | impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in zimbabwe |
| topic | Economics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5730 |
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