@article{Carney:268000,
      recid = {268000},
      author = {Carney, D. and van Rooyen, C. J.},
      title = {EMPOWERING SMALL FARMERS THROUGH COLLECTIVE ACTION: THE  CASE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER},
      journal = {Agrekon},
      address = {1996-12},
      number = {346-2018-988},
      year = {1996},
      abstract = {Collective action could be the logical route to  empowerment for fanners. By working together fanners can,  in principle: identify members' needs and consolidate  demand; aggregate members' economic power; and address  market failures. These capacities would seem to make  fanners' organisations the ideal partners in the area of  agricultural technology transformation, which can be  described as technology development and transfer. This is  proven by the strength of "Organised Agriculture in South  Africas commercial fanning". Iltis paper draws on research  focused on emerging black fanners' organisations in South  Africa and their involvement in agricultural technology.  This research makes it clear that the key to effective  change in the technology development supply system in South  Africa, and thus to much needed productivity increases  amongst black small fanners, is held by the technology  system itself. In the absence of significant support, small  fanners' organisations (as currently constituted) can be  expected to play a restricted role - if any at all - for  they are not yet sufficiently united, powerful or  technologically-aware to force the opening of doors on  their own initiative. One of the major lessons which must  be drawn from this is that broader support to farmers'  organisations to build capacity and particularly to develop  internal communication mechanisms is likely to have to  precede support for particular technology initiatives.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/268000},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.268000},
}