TY - JOUR ID - 115378 TI - Markets Work for Rural-Poor: Why a Need to Develop Roadside Farm Markets for Small-Scale Farmers in South Africa? JO - International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics JA - IJMAE LA - en SN - AU - Kibirige, Douglas AD - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Swaziland Luyengo-Campus, P.O. Box M205 Luyengo, Swaziland Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 3 IS - 8 SP - 453 EP - 458 KW - Small-scale farmers KW - Roadside markets KW - rural poor KW - South Africa KW - supermarkets DO - N2 - Over 70% of rural population in South Africa survives on subsistence small-scale farming as source of food and household incomes. However, due to lack of Agro-market facilities in rural South Africa,  small-scale farmers can hardly compete favourably to benefit from the nation agricultural market, leaving almost 85% share of agricultural-market to the well-off large commercial farmers. These imbalances in South Africa’s agricultural markets are manifested in its dualistic economy, the “first-world economy” and the “second-impoverished economies”, respectively. Recent policies have been focused more on increased agro-productivity with less emphasis on markets for the rural-poor subsistence small-scale farmers. This review used case-study elsewhere especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia where surveys have shown tremendous positive results to supported the argument. Therefore, this review suggest “Markets Work for Rural-Poor in South Africa: Developing Roadside Markets for Smallholder Farmers” to improve on their shares and benefit more from the rich national agricultural market.  UR - https://www.ijmae.com/article_115378.html L1 - https://www.ijmae.com/article_115378_2929f4fa0480726c94314d9e7326d606.pdf ER -