THE AGRARIAN RURAL HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY

Tshintsha Amakhaya (TA) is an action learning platform
of civil society organisations that supports local community
struggles in land and agrarian reform. Through action
research, campaigns, and building active participation,
TA seeks to enhance rural people’s capacity to secure
and realise their livelihoods and rights, and to promote
alternative models of land tenure and agricultural
production for food sovereignty.
TA’s 10 partner organisations are primarily concerned
with supporting dispossessed and landless communities
to gain access to land in South Africa. Some of the
organisations have also worked closely with smallholder
and resource-poor black farmers to build sustainable
smallholder agriculture and rural livelihoods. The partner
organisations are the Association for Rural Advancement
(AFRA), Border Rural Committee (BRC), Farmer Support
THE AGRARIAN RURAL HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY REPORT
introduction
Group (FSG), Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Nkuzi
Development Association (Nkuzi), Southern Cape Land
Committee (SCLC), Surplus People Project (SPP), Transkei
Land Services Organisation (TRALSO), Trust for Community
Outreach and Education (TCOE), and Women on Farms
Project (WFP).
This report highlights key findings of a baseline survey
conducted at the end of 2010 and the start of 2011
amongst constituent communities in TA. There were 1743
respondents in 12 local municipalities in four provinces:
Eastern Cape (E Cape), KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), Limpopo
and Western Cape (W Cape) (Figure 1). Six land tenure
types were analysed: communal; commercial farmland:
land reform; commonage; church land; and informal
settlements/rural town.
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