Promoting farm/non‐farm linkages for employment of the poor in South Africa: A research agenda focused on small‐scale farms and agroindustry

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• Respectively, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, University of the North, and Associate Professor and Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. We thank Carl Eicher, Kostas Stamoulis, and the two reviewers for Development Southern Africa. We are also grateful to ESAE/FAO for funding.
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