These reforms, which accelerated in the late 1990s, provided free of charge settlement for disadvantaged people on lands and facilitation to purchase land to start up agricultural activity. Established and newly settled small-scale producers received substantial credit concessions and benefitted from a range of other rural development and social programmes targeted to the rural poor. Indeed, agriculture was the dominant driver of labour productivity within the overall economy, contributing 85% to the aggregate labour productivity growth in the four sectors (agriculture, manufacturing, mining and services) between 2002 and 2007, and almost one-half between 2007 and 2012 (OECD, 2013b). Productivity improvements were in part an effect of capital replacing labour, with agriculture’s share of employment falling from 18% in 2002 to less than 13% in 2012.