'It takes everything away from you' - water symposium hears how drought affects smallholder farmers
30 October 2019
In 2016, Dr Bongani Ncube of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology took a deeper look at how smallholder farmers were able to cope and adapt during times of drought.
Speaking at the 20 th Waternet symposium on freshwater management, Ncube's results were not heartening.
Basing her choice of study on drought declaration, she focused on 60 farmers on the West Coast and 52 in the Overberg.
On the West Coast, the drought had been declared a national disaster.