High quality markets & value chains for small-scale & emerging beef cattle farmers in South Africa (Stage 2)

South Africa's beef industry is segregated into three 'economies': i) a commercial sector with well-developed value chains, industry infrastructure and production systems equal to most developed countries; ii) an 'emerging farmer' sector comprising smallholder farmers who own or lease land and are commercially-oriented but lack the training, infrastructure and production systems available to the commercial sector; and iii) a third 'communal farmer' sector, where farmers do not own or lease land but graze their cattle on communally-owned land and operate mainly as subsistence farmers.