Deregulation, Trade Reform and Innovation in the South African Agriculture Sector : Trade and Innovation Project - Case Study No. 4

Ron Sandreyi ; Nick Vinkii iTRALAC (Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa)iiUniversity of Stellenbosch

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

关键词: foreign investment;    fruit;    South Africa;    field crops;    trade reform;    innovation;    agriculture;    deregulation;    wine;    absorption capacity;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.1787/240428414841

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: OECD iLibrary

【 摘 要 】

This paper is one of five case studies which is a part of a larger project looking at the various effects that trade and investment can have on innovation. This paper studies the effect of deregulation and trade reform on South Africa's agriculture sector. South Africa's agriculture sector is highly dualistic consisting of a developed commercial sector and a subsistence farming sector. Deregulation and trade reform has led to substantial changes in innovation in the commercial agriculture sector such as wine and fruit, leading to a large change in composition while innovation seems to have been more limited in subsistence agriculture which lacks absorption capacity. Legal uncertainties related to land reform may also be one factor which can negatively affect innovation in the commercial farming sector.