markets work for rural-poor: why a need to develop roadside farm markets for small-scale farmers in south africa?

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.