@article{vonFintel:211916,
      recid = {211916},
      author = {von Fintel, Dieter and Pienaar, Louw},
      title = {Small-scale farming and hunger: the enabling role of  social assistance programmes in South Africa’s former  homelands},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-80300},
      pages = {32},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many  developing countries. South
Africa is a case in point,  implementing one of the largest unconditional cash  transfer
programmes internationally, and with substantial  benefits to household well-being
along multiple dimensions.  Yet, grants discourage formal labour market  attachment,
creating dependencies on the fiscus. This study  uses a fuzzy regression discontinuity
design to establish  that state-funded Old Age Pensions encourage  non-market
economic activity (in the form of small-scale  farming), and improve the self-reported
food security of  rural households that farm, vis-à-vis those that do not.  The role of
small-scale farming is of broader interest in  rural development, given the context of
the 1913 and 1936  Land Acts that constrained this form of livelihood in  former
apartheid homelands. This paper’s contribution is  two-fold: grants are an effective
channel to actively  promote rural development through small-scale farming, and  they
improve food security by non-market mechanisms.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211916},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.211916},
}