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100			_aHabiyaremye, Alexis _942784
245			_aHow effective is local beneficiation policy in enhancing rural income and employment? The case of agro-processing beneficiation in Tzaneen, South Africa
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 34, Issue 4, 2019( 329-345 p.)
520			_aConfronted with a sluggish growth and very high rates of rural unemployment, South Africa has put local beneficiation at the core of its strategy for employment-intensive re-industrialisation. Its industrial policy action plan identified agro-processing as one of the priority areas for this strategy because of its potential employment multiplier in rural areas. Despite the appeal of its industrialisation potential, beneficiation strategy is often contested and its effectiveness as a viable engine of industrialisation in African countries is recurrently questioned. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the income and employment effects of an agro-processing beneficiation programme launched by the Department of Science and Technology for the processing of abundant mango harvest in the area of Tzaneen in Limpopo province. Using inverse probability weighting estimation on a sample of 385 households residing in and around the beneficiation target area, we find clear positive income effects of the agro-processing project for the beneficiary households. The success of this project in the domestic and international agro-processing markets suggests that local beneficiation strategy can provide a sound basis for rural industrialisation if adequately prepared.
650			_aagro-processing, _942785
650			_abeneficiation policy, _942790
650			_a inclusive development, _942786
650			_a income support, _942787
650			_a inverse probability weighting _942788
700			_aMupela, Evans _941176
773	0		_011252 _915503 _dSage, 2019. _tLocal economy
856			_uhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269094219857037
942			_2ddc _cART