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Browsing Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) by UP Author "Makombe, Godswill"
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Marandure, Tawanda; Bennett, James; Dzama, Kennedy; Makombe, Godswill; Gwiriri, Lovemore; Mapiye, Cletos (Taylor and Francis, 2020)Efforts to exploit the central roles of cattle to drive agriculture and rural development in low-income countries recorded limited success owing to their narrow focus on modernizing and commercializing low-input cattle ...
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Golele, Nyiko S.; Mautjana, Madimetja Human; Makombe, Godswill (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2018-06)The South African land reform programme is implemented to redress land ownership patterns that resulted from Apartheid discriminatory laws. Whites expropriated land from Africans and, by so doing, usurped their livelihoods. ...
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Mukarati, Julius; Mongale, Itumeleng P.; Makombe, Godswill (Allied Academies, 2020)Despite government’s huge investments in the informal sector activities, women are constrained in the credit market mainly due to culture; norms and lack of collateral securities as majority of women do not have control ...
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Chikozho, Claudious; Makombe, Godswill; Milondzo, Khazamula Samson (Elsevier, 2019-06)A key objective of the land reforms in South Africa was for the process to lead to the emergence of a cohort of black small-scale commercial farmers who would realize substantive agricultural production levels through ...
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Makombe, Godswill (Nova Southeastern University, 2017-12-12)It is crucial that any research inquiry be guided by a paradigm. However, many early career researchers do not mention the research paradigm guiding their inquiry. Furthermore, qualitative and quantitative methods ...
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Marandure, Tawanda; Dzama, Kennedy; Bennett, James; Makombe, Godswill; Chikwanha, Obert; Mapiye, Cletos (Elsevier, 2020-12)The process of consulting stakeholders, particularly farmers, in developing appropriate indicators for sustainability evaluation of low-input ruminant systems is often compromised by limited awareness and understanding of ...
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Phali, Lerato; Mudhara, Maxwell; Ferrer, Stuart; Makombe, Godswill (Wiley, 2022-04)Good governance is a prerequisite for better management of common-use resources. Awareness of institutions, inclusion of members in decision-making processes, stakeholder engagement and transparency are needed for good ...
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Baloyi, Ishmael Y.; Makombe, Godswill (South African Association for Public Administration and Management, 2018-03)Small-scale farming is usually intended to contribute to food security, which could assist in the reduction of poverty. Despite South Africa being food secure at the national level, food insecurity exists at household level. ...
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Mautjana, Madimetja Human; Makombe, Godswill (Africa Institute of South Africa, 2018-09)This study aimed to assess and compare changes in poverty levels in the identified wards, using indicators of multiple deprivation. South Africa has grappled with the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality ...
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Mapiye, Obvious; Makombe, Godswill; Molotsi, Annelin; Dzama, Kennedy; Mapiye, Cletos (Sage, 2023-09)The transformation of smallholder farming is poised to be one of the key drivers of achieving the dual objectives of food security and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Smallholder farmers account for between ...
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Mukarati, Julius; Mongale, Itumeleng P.; Makombe, Godswill (Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2020)Land redistributive policies can be viewed as effective tools for reducing rural poverty mainly because agriculture continues to be a major source of rural livelihood and a contributor to rural economic growth. For the ...
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Makombe, Godswill (Nova Southeastern University, 2018)After independence, South Africa embarked on a land reform programme that is meant to redress the highly inequitable land ownership which resulted from Apartheid. The programme comprises land redistribution, land restitution ...
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Mapiye, Obvious; Makombe, Godswill; Mapiye, Cletos; Dzama, K. (Springer, 2018-10)The opportunity for the smallholder beef farming system to support the growth of South Africa’s livestock industry is untapped. Slow growth of the sector is attributed to many limitations that affect the smallholder beef ...
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Mapiye, Obvious; Chikwanha, Obert C.; Makombe, Godswill; Dzama, Kennedy; Mapiye, Cletos (MDPI, 2020-02-12)Of the 345 million people in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), 30.6% are severely food insecure, 8% malnourished and 50% live with less than US $1 per day, respectively. Livelihood, food and nutrition ...
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Mapiye, Obvious; Makombe, Godswill; Mapiye, Cletos; Dzama, Kennedy (Sage, 2020-03)A survey was conducted to identify management information sources and communication channels used by commercially oriented smallholder beef cattle producers (n=62) in Limpopo province, South Africa. A total of 62 commercially ...
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Mupaso, Norman; Makombe, Godswill; Mugandani, Raymond (Elsevier, 2023-02)Several studies have been conducted on the impacts of smallholder irrigation on food security, agricultural productivity, livelihoods, and poverty. However, little attention has been placed on the nexus between smallholder ...
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Tibaingana, Anthony; Kele, Tumo; Makombe, Godswill (South African Society for Agricultural Extension, 2018)The aim of this study was to describe smallholder farmers’ perception of household maize storage. Household storage plays a crucial role in supplying maize between seasons. Despite their continued usage, they are not safe ...
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Mkanthama, Joseph; Makombe, Godswill; Kihoro, John; Ateka, Elija M.; Kanjere, Matshidiso (Wiley, 2018-04)Tanzania produces rice from two major ecologies, namely irrigated and rainfed lowland. Currently most of the rice is produced from the rainfed lowland but the country's National Rice Development Strategy (NRDS) hopes to ...
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Marandure, Tawanda; Bennett, James; Dzama, Kennedy; Makombe, Godswill; Mapiye, Cletos (Elsevier, 2020-12)The sustainability of low-input ruminant farming systems remains poorly understood and evaluation frameworks that adequately capture their complexity are lacking. The multiple goals of producers, multipurpose roles of ...
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Marandure, Tawanda; Makombe, Godswill; Dzama, Kennedy; Hoffmann, Willem; Mapiye, Cletos (Elsevier, 2018-02)bstract The concept of sustainability is associated with numerous evaluation approaches making various claims. To their credit, the evaluation approaches contributed to the evolution of the concept from a rather vague ...
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