DBSA evaluations (RIDP, Farmer Support Programmes)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Development Bank of Southern Africa
Coverage	1987-1995
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Data reliability and econometric method	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Kerby (2016a)	Development Bank of Southern Africa (1989) evaluation of the RIDP	1989	Cited for the finding that zones were too numerous and firm location not aligned with comparative cost advantage.
Vink et al. (2012)	DBSA evaluation of the Farmer Support Programmes (Singini and Van Rooyen eds, Development Paper No 44, 1995)	1987-1993 (evaluation commissioned 1992/3, published 1995)	Main source for FSP outcomes: hectares, smallholders reached, jobs created, investment shares, per-farmer costs, and lessons learned.
Williams (1996)	Development Bank of South Africa Farmer Support Programme evaluation reports (Kirsten, van Zyl, Sartorius von Bach; Fischer, Dederen, Ficq; Cross and Evans 1991)	c.1987-1991	Evidence that Farmer Support Programmes in the bantustans largely failed to produce commercial farmers.