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标题：Implications of under-funding research and agricultural extension in Erstwhile Bophuthatswana: Some lessons for agricultural development in democratic South Africa
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作者：Anis Mahomed Karodia
期刊名称：International Journal of Development and Sustainability
印刷版ISSN：2186-8662
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：1749-1757
出版社：International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS)
摘要：The paperexplores the former Bophuthatswana's (Bophuthatswana was formerly a Black homeland, granted independence by the apartheid South African government) ability to have met the challenges of increasing food production, on the basis that this depended on the level of investment in agricultural research and extension. This assumes relevance to the all-embracing fact that the erstwhile Bophuthatswana population was approximately 80 percent rural. The paper therefore takes an historical view, and in this regard, an attempt is made to explore in some detail, the management implications and the principles involved in management and leadership, with a view of outlining the possible implications of under ¨Cfunding research and particularly extension by the erstwhile Bophuthatswana government. It is hoped that the democratic South African gov ernment would be in a position to learn from the lessons of failure within the agricultural dynamic of Bophuthatswana, and to charter a course of sound extension and research management, in order to promote the general welfare, understand the implications of underfunding and its consequences to the people of South Africa.
关键词：Extension; Research; Underfunding; Investment; Market Equilibrium; Productivity; Base Line