Box 3.1: Food Security Impact Mechanisms in Smallholder-Based
Industrial Crop Production Systems
The Komati Downstream Development Project (KDDP) is a smallholder
community development programme promoted by a para-statal agency in
Swaziland (SWADE) in the late 1990s. Its main aim was to develop capacity
for irrigated sugarcane production among smallholders (Terry and Ogg 2017).
Smallholders were incentivized to pool their cropland to accommodate sugarcane production, forming 28 associations spanning an estimated 5500 ha
(Gasparatos et al. 2018). These associations operate as independent cooperatives or companies, with the involved smallholders becoming equal partners
and receiving annual dividends through sugarcane sales to the two mills
operated by the Royal Swazi Sugar Company (RSSC) in Mhulme and
Shimunye.
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Fig. 3.7 Main modes of industrial crop production in sub-Saharan Africa. Source: Gasparatos et al.
(2018). Note: Green denotes natural ecosystems (e.g. woodland, grassland), brown denotes agricultural land, and red industrial crop production
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