Jensen, Frank; Lundhede, Thomas Hedemark; Sunde, Peter(Springer, 2024-10)
In this paper, we conduct a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of five alternative management strategies for red deer in Denmark:
free harvest, trophy hunting, maximum harvest and two cases for natural demographic population ...
South African subsistence livestock farmers rely heavily on traditional mitigation and coping mechanisms to deal with the effects of drought. However, these methods have proven ineffective in managing the full impact of ...
Successfully analyzing and managing trade-offs between community welfare and wildlife conservation are complex tasks that require a multidisciplinary approach and consideration of various factors. Bioeconomic
modeling ...
BACKGROUND: Gender disparities in access to inputs, markets, financial inclusion, and participation in strategic value
chains are major developmental challenges in emerging economies. Participation in the edible insect ...
Radical and quick transformations towards sustainability will be fundamental to achieving a more sustainable future. However, deliberate interventions to reconfigure systems will result in winners and losers, with the ...
The dairy sector is transforming following growing concerns over sustainability, propelling innovations such as plant-based milk alternatives (PBMAs). Researchers have shown increasing interest in conducting studies on ...
Destocking as a drought mitigation strategy exposes smallholder cattle farmers to adverse effects, including the distortion of farm planning and income loss, as cattle are sold off regardless of the market price. Factors ...
NON-TECHNICHAL SUMMARY. We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change
research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability
and implications of overshooting ...
Large-scale land acquisitions in Africa are increasing, reported often as the transfers of land for food and biofuel crop production. Only reporting agricultural acquisitions underplays potential impacts of other forms of ...
Food safety has become an important international public health and economic issue since the first and only publication of global estimates on the burden of food borne diseases by the World Food Organisation in 2015. The ...
Just transitions – responses to environmental change that minimise negative impacts on the most affected people and places, while ensuring nobody is left behind – are gaining scholarly and policy significance in areas ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to small- and medium-sized agrifood
enterprises (SMAEs) in developing countries. However, research investigating what risks
Covid-19 posed to these firms, how they ...
Chisakaitwa, Sibonginkosi(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-30)
The major purpose is to analyse the relationship between trade openness and agricultural growth. The study employs the ARDL model to assess the influence of trade openness on agricultural growth. Major findings of this ...
The paucity of literature on the influence of land tenure across a range of food
insecurity outcomes may impede a complete analysis in developing countries. This
paper examines the association between land tenure and ...
Kanono, Makabelo M.(University of Pretoria, 2024-02)
Public Agricultural expenditure plays a huge role in boosting the effectiveness of the agricultural sector. It is also a great tool to curb food shortages. Lesotho signed the CAADP Declaration alongside other African ...
Over the past 20 years, the farming environment has changed significantly, becoming much more integrated and complicated. Whereas the focus was primarily on farming before, it has become a business, where farmers have to ...
Mofokeng, Masuping Berta(University of Pretoria, 2024-07)
Aquaculture has become a significant global food-producing sector, where, with the traditional capturing fisheries being depleted, it offers a good opportunity to supplement supply in order to meet the increasing demand ...
Hendriks, Sheryl L.; De Groot Ruiz, Adrian; Herrero Acosta, Mario; Baumers, Hans; Galgani, Pietro; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Godde, Cecile; Waha, Katharina; Kanidou, Dimitra; Von Braun, Joachim; Benitez, Mauricio; Blanke, Jennifer; Caron, Patrick; Fanzo, Jessica; Greb, Friederike; Haddad, Lawrence; Herforth, Anna; Jordaan, Daniel Du Plessis Scheepers; Masters, William A.; Sadoff, Claudia; Soussana, Jean-François; Tirado, Maria Cristina; Torero, Maximo; Watkins, Matthew(Springer, 2023-01)
Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing their environmental and health costs while making healthy and sustainable food affordable to all. One of the central problems of current food systems is that many ...
As recognized by the Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa – 2024 (STISA-2024), science, technology and innovation (STI) offer many opportunities for addressing the main constraints to embracing transformation ...
Action Track 1 of the Food Systems Summit offers an opportunity to bring together the crucial elements of food safety, nutrition, poverty and inequalities in the framework of food systems within the context of climate and ...