Abstract
The once thriving subsistence farming community of Machibini is currently defunct due to water shortages, inadequacy of governmental support and better livelihood in urban communities. This community alongside its neighbouring communities is characterized by poverty. A variety of strategies and initiatives has been initiated to address the cyclical poverty amongst these communities. This paucity has driven the youths to urban centres as a means of securing a better livelihood. More so, the constant ebb of mass rural-urban migration has created voluminous challenges. As an agendum to creating a viable farming community in Machibini and “instigating an urban-rural migration”, the paper recommends the reallocation of the surplus budgets of this community to the investment of water resource management as a strategy of transforming the subsistence into commercial farming, thereby creating employment opportunities for the unemployed rural, as well as urban dwellers, while reducing poverty to a reasonable extent.
Highlights
Background: rural communities of Africa in the 60’s
The core objective of this paper is to explore pragmatic strategies through which subsistence farming in rural communities of South Africa can be revamped
The line of questioning centred around reasons for the high flow of rural-urban migration in the community; challenges of subsistence farming; and while, exploring the current interventions this community uses to mitigate challenges attributed to subsistence farming
Summary
Background: rural communities of Africa in the 60’s. The livelihood and lifestyle of rural communities of Africa are quite synonymous. These similitudes could be found in aspects such as festivals, customs and farming practices, which are predominantly the subsistence mode of farming (Anthony et al, 2012; Nussbaum, 2003; Bigombe & Khadiagala, 2004). Farming was the main source of livelihood amongst several rural communities of Africa in the 60’s. Some of these communities, did produce for domestic consumptions, and exported a surmountable quantity (Food and Agriculture Organization, 1960). The reverse is the case today, as enormous tonnage of food supplies is shipped into the African continent from other continents (Chauvin et al, 2012; USDA, 2015)
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