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The Komati downstream development project: Achievements and challenges (2007)
Journal Article
Terry, A. (2007). The Komati downstream development project: Achievements and challenges. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 98(5), 641-651. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.2007.00430.x

To overcome widespread rural poverty, raise incomes and improve food security, Swaziland has begun a process of commercialisation of its subsistence farms. This strategy is based upon extending irrigation onto customary tenured land in the semi-arid... Read More about The Komati downstream development project: Achievements and challenges.

Improving food security in Swaziland: The transition from subsistence to communally managed cash cropping (2007)
Journal Article
Terry, A., & Ryder, M. (2007). Improving food security in Swaziland: The transition from subsistence to communally managed cash cropping. Natural Resources Forum, 31(4), 263-272. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-8947.2007.00161.x

The Komati Downstream Development Project (KDDP), based upon the Maguga Dam has enabled 6,000 hectares of semi-arid lowveld, in a region with low and highly variable rainfall to be converted from subsistence to irrigated commercial farming, mainly of... Read More about Improving food security in Swaziland: The transition from subsistence to communally managed cash cropping.