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Indigenous Knowledge on the South African

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Potentials for Agricultural Development

Tim Hart and Ineke Vorster

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Urban, Rural and Economic Development Research Programme, Occasional Paper 1

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Preface

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About the Authors

Tim Hart is a senior research manager in the Urban, Rural and Economic

Development Research Programme of the HSRC. He holds an M.Phil in Social

Science methods from the University of Stellenbosch. Prior to joining the HSRC, he

was a senior researcher at the Agricultural Research Council where he practised as an

agricultural anthropologist and programme evaluator.

Tim has published and presented widely in the fields of agricultural extension,

smallholder farmer development and indigenous knowledge. He has a keen interest

in various aspects of agricultural development, the plight of agrarian households and

the role of indigenous knowledge in agricultural development.

Ineke Vorster is a researcher in the Crop Development division at the Agricultural

Research Council, Roodeplaat and holds Honours degrees in Genetics as well as in

Rural Development (Extension) from the University of Pretoria. She has been a

potato breeder for 15 years and has been working with smallholder farmers since

1998. For the last six years she has been working mainly on traditional crops in

various areas of South Africa.

Ineke has a keen interest in agricultural development, the role of traditional

vegetables and indigenous knowledge in household strategies, and sustainable potato

production in smallholder farming systems. Ineke has published and presented at

numerous national and international symposia.

Comments and suggestions on this paper can be e-mailed to [email protected] and

[email protected].

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Acknowledgements

The authors which to acknowledge the assistance of PROLINNOVA South Africa

and a number of rural villages in South Africa for providing much of the information

provided in this paper. They also wish to thank Dr Michael Aliber of the HSRC for

reviewing and commenting on earlier drafts of this paper.