@article{Rooyen:197412,
      recid = {197412},
      author = {Rooyen, Johan van and Fenyes, Tamas},
      title = {Agricultural Interaction in Southern Africa: Cooperation  or Confrontation},
      address = {1987},
      number = {992-2016-77609},
      pages = {6},
      year = {1987},
      abstract = {Ignoring the abnormal drought of the past 3 years, the  economic growth performances of most
countries in southern  Africa have been good-by African standards. However, with  the exceptmn of commerc1al
farming, agricultural production  has stagnated or declined m the indigenous rural sectors  where the majority of the
populations of southern Afncan  countnes continue to live. As in other parts of Africa,  food production in particular
has not kept pace with growth  of rural populations, let alone provided for expanding  urban demand. Africa's
mability to feed itself amid vast  amounts of unused land and record levels of foreign aid 1s,  on the surface1 one of the
major paradoxes of Third World  development. The Repubhc of South Afnca (RSA), on the other  hand, largely
succeeds in feeding its population while its  agricultural exports pay for 22 percent of total imports.  Apart from those
dramatic economic differences between the  RSA and the other southern African states, polttical  differences are
also highly visible. Whereas the RSA, as  the dominant econom1c and regional power in this turbulent  subcontinent,
ought to play a vital role in development and  economic cooperatmn, the potential for conflict and  confrontation due
to political differences is evident and  equally dramatic. In this paper, the performance of  agriculture m southern
Africa is analyzed to determine  whether it can be the basis for meaningful economic  cooperation to counter the
forces of confrontation.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/197412},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.197412},
}