The book, titled: Does Food Security Improve When Small Holders Access a Niche Market? Lessons from the Embo Community in South Africa, is edited by the Academic Programme Co-ordinator from the African Centre for Food Security, Professor Sheryl Hendriks, and Professor Michael C Lyne.

The book presents the results of a food security research project funded by the Ford Foundation.

Professors Hendriks and Lyne said the study focused on members of the Ezemvelo Farmers Organisation (EFO), who in 2002 became South Africa’s first group of small-scale farmers to achieve organic certification. The idea behind the book was to move academic inquiry into the hands of policy makers, decision makers and practitioners.

The easiest business to open is a street-vendor one as all you need to have is a table on the side of the street.  Here you can sell fruit, sweets, fatkoek or fried-chips to the people who are passing by  This can be a steady income as people are buying stuff like this everyday but you must make sure that you sell a product that is in demand in that specific area and also something that not too many other people are selling.

Other street-vendors sell full meals such as maize meal, samp with beans, stiff pappa and curry and rice to taxi-drivers and passengers and set up their stalls next to the taxi ranks.