fact sheet

This fact sheet by WWF South Africa outlines the organization's strategy to support smallholder farmers in adopting conservation and climate-smart agriculture to improve food security, restore natural landscapes, and meet national and international climate commitments.

• The agricultural sector in South Africa, comprising both commercial and communal farming, utilizes 80% of available land and two thirds of available water, despite contributing only 2.3% of the total economic value.
• WWF South Africa is implementing a programme to help smallholder farmers adopt conservation agricultural practices—including organic soil cover, diversified crop rotations, minimum soil disturbance, and integrated land use planning—to increase production, build climate resilience, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through methods like low till and no till.
• WWF South Africa's collaborative approach to supporting smallholder farmers involves four main pillars: capacity building, promoting sector research, utilizing formal and informal market incentives, and implementing collective stewardship initiatives.
• The South African government has committed to creating opportunities for 300,000 households within the smallholder agri value chain and generating approximately 145,000 jobs in agro processing.
• WWF prioritizes support for smallholder farmers in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape because these provinces are heavily affected by soil erosion and contain more than half of South Africa's strategic water source areas; 25% of smallholders are located in KwaZulu-Natal and 20% in the Eastern Cape.

APA

WWF South Africa (2017). fact sheet. http://awsassets.wwf.org.za/downloads/WWF_Smallholders_Fact_Sheet_D6_FINAL_6Jun17.pdf

Chicago

WWF South Africa. fact sheet. 2017. http://awsassets.wwf.org.za/downloads/WWF_Smallholders_Fact_Sheet_D6_FINAL_6Jun17.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{wwfsouthafrica2017fact, author = {{WWF South Africa}}, title = {{fact sheet}}, institution = {WWF South Africa}, year = {2017}, url = {http://awsassets.wwf.org.za/downloads/WWF_Smallholders_Fact_Sheet_D6_FINAL_6Jun17.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }