Innovating to Release the Potential of Agriculture in South Africa Like farmers everywhere, farmers in Africa are working to keep up with, and exploit, the rapid changes in agricultural technology, information, and global markets.
Many African farmers are small farmers, and many are women.
I tend to have a bit of an aversion to the term small. It doesn't describe your production or your economic unit. African farmers are often described as small because many of them operate on a combination of small holding units, but I think the biggest problem for African agriculture is that many of the farmers are resource limited. They are resource constrained not so much from a natural resource point of view, because our resources are very rich, but from the fact that they need inputs and technology and information, which are critical for unlocking the potential of the natural resource. Women for various reasons have remained the core producers of food for the household.