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Data collected from interviews with new landowners in KwaZulu-Natal in 1999 show that households on four government-assisted projects had less tenure security than households that acquired land via private transactions. Households in government-assisted projects also used less agricultural credit and had less liquidity and less wealth. The probability of households using agricultural credit increased with more secure tenure, more household wealth (number of durable goods), higher liquidity and higher levels of household education. It is recommended that more emphasis be placed on redistributing land through the private market and encouraging the creation of management committees or joint enterprises to utilise the land settled by large groups of beneficiaries. This would be a first step towards making tenure more secure, most notably in the government land reform projects. More secure tenure would improve the creditworthiness of emerging farmers, thereby creating incentives for investing in improvements and complementary inputs to raise agricultural performance. (Dev South Afr/DÜI)

Lesotho ist in hohem Maße von Nahrungsmitteleinfuhren und Nahrungsmittelhilfe abhängig. Diese Abhängigkeit wird auf absehbare Zeit bleiben. Kommerzielle Getreideimporte decken oft nicht ausreichend das lokale Produktionsdefizit ab. Nahrungsmittelhilfe trägt deshalb wesentlich zur Ernährungssicherheit bei und verbessert den Ernährungsstatus der armen Haushalte. Die Abhängigkeit von Nahrungsmittelhilfen kann nur verringert werden, wenn Maßnahmen zur Armutsbekämpfung und Schaffung von Einkommen ergriffen werden und erfolgreich sind. (DÜI-Hlb)