Economic Performance and Development

Research outputs

Hart, T., Aliber, M., Letty, B., Msibi, M., Baiphethi, M. & Nxele, Z. (2012) Technological initiatives for rural development: evidence from eight comprehensive rural development programme pilot sites. (HSRC Policy Brief, March).
Between July and October 2010, a multidisciplinary team of researchers, led by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), conducted a scoping study to identify technologies available for rural development and to develop baseline information on technology oriented initiatives previously and currently under way in eight of the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) pilot sites across e...
Human Sciences Research Council (2012) 6th SAHARA Conference: official conference proceedings. Port Elizabeth: SAHARA.
Jacobs, P. (2012) Agro-food market policy and food security in South Africa. In: Cohen, M.J. & Smale, M. (eds). Global food-price shocks and poor people: themes and case studies. Oxford: Routledge.
Jacobs, P. (2012) Climate change and resource-poor small farmers - village evidence from Limpopo. (Paper presented at the HSRC Seminar Series, 27 March).
Jacobs, P. (2012) Household food access in rural South Africa: lessons for emerging food security policy. (Paper presented at the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), International Scientific Symposium on Food and Nutrition Security Information, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy, 17-19 January).
Jacobs, P. (2012) Protecting food insecure households against rapid food price inflation. (HSRC Policy Brief, March).
This policy brief outlines recommendations regarding household profiles, location and main household income and spending patterns to raise efficiency and effectiveness of targeted food and nutrition security interventions. Policy formulation may benefit from the careful tracking of the determinants of household food security statuses.
Jacobs, P. (2012) Wither agrarian reform in South Africa?. Review of African Political Economy. 39(131):171-180.