Abstract
The Local Government in South Africa faces several strong developmental challenges. Although there are several interventions that are introduced to confront these challenges, which include mainly climate change, poverty, unemployment, skills shortage, illiteracy and health care including (HIV/AIDS) with partial success. In this paper, a conceptual framework is proposed for climate change and its impact on small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in particular those in agricultural sectors of Bushbuckridge in South Africa. Rural communities and local municipalities will need to find appropriate and efficient ways of developing resilience to climate change through adaptation measures. These measures will need to be supported at a systemic level, including through intergovernmental finance mechanisms. Therefore SMMEs need to adapt and mitigate climate change effects interacting with the sustainability of their business growth activities within Bushbuckridge Municipality area. In this article, a conceptual framework is proposed for small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa. The literature review includes an analysis of documents issued by Bushbuckridge local municipalities as well by the National Department of Provincial and Local Government. Finally the intended contextualised literature is for municipalities to develop strategies to assist SMMEs in agriculture. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n6p109
Highlights
Local economic development (LED) is a policy in South Africa for economic development that allows and encourages local people to work together to achieve sustainable economic growth and development
The rural areas of the Bushbuckridge District of the Limpopo province are not exceptions to the rule of environmental health risk neither to the challenges brought by climate change impacts; these are the cause of a series of weather disturbances reducing crop harvest, poor crop quality, and land degradation
In addition the impacts of these changing global patterns are increased by poor natural resource management that negatively impact on operations of SMME’s in the rural areas
Summary
Local economic development (LED) is a policy in South Africa for economic development that allows and encourages local people to work together to achieve sustainable economic growth and development. This policy is aimed at bringing economic benefits and improved quality of life to all residents in a local municipal area. The rural areas of the Bushbuckridge District of the Limpopo province are not exceptions to the rule of environmental health risk neither to the challenges brought by climate change impacts; these are the cause of a series of weather disturbances reducing crop harvest, poor crop quality, and land degradation. Without any action taken by governments and municipality authorities this is only going to get worse
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