Rural development in South Africa: Repetition, revision and rethink

Date :
19 August 2009


Location :
Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town video conference centres

­The time of this presentation is from 12.15 to 13.30 and it is presented by Dr Moraka Nakedi Makhura, Head of Agricultural Economic Research and Innovation Services (AERIS), Land Bank­.

The presentation highlights aspects of the policy space and asserts that the effective rural development process will require active participation of both government and non-governmental role players. It applies the cylinder and cross metaphor to illustrate the complementarities in the policy, programming and implementation space. It identifies areas of repetition, revision(ing) and rethink. The presentation also raises issues for consideration in the consolidation of the rural development drive in the country.
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