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Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development: Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02)Rural areas in South Africa are predominantly characterized by the presence of subsistence farming households, many of which face challenges related to limited asset ownership. While historical poverty reduction efforts ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024)Wetlands sustainability and their capacity to provide ecosystem services is threatened by increasing land pressure and climate change effects. Wetlands are also complex ecosystems that present several challenges to public ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-03)Secure land tenure is essential to improve smallholder food security and children's nutrition. However, evidence of this association is lacking. This study sought to address this gap by investigating three sub-objectives: ...
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(MDPI, 2023-02-20)Land degradation is a major risk to the sustainability and functioning of socioecological systems (SES), especially in arid/semiarid regions. By understanding a system and its interlinkages, the socioecological approach ...
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(MDPI, 2023-03-03)African agriculture needs to adapt to climate change and shift from unsustainable production practices to sustainable ones. This requires innovative, substantial, and long-term agricultural investments that can allow all ...
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Does contract farming arrangement improve smallholder tobacco productivity? Evidence from Zimbabwe (Elsevier, 2024-01)Contract Farming Arrangements (CFA) can be viewed as a pro-active response to lack of reliable markets and steeply rising input prices. CFA proponents argue that CFA can enhance technical efficiency of tobacco farming and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Occurrences of food fraud have highlighted the importance of understanding the vulnerability of food chains to fraud and so be able to improve companies’ ability to reduce fraud within their own institutions and throughout ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-07)The development and uptake of agricultural insurance products by farmers in developing countries has been universally and disappointingly low. This paper investigates farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay for a variety ...
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(Springer, 2023-06)A lot of attention has been paid to environmental pollution worldwide, due to the increase in anthropogenic activities. Massive investment in non-renewable energy options raises questions regarding environmental sustainability ...
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(Routledge, 2024)Much of the research on behavioural preferences as predictors of compliance with regulations aimed at reducing the transmission of COVID-19 has focused on developed countries, with very little consideration of African ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-12)CONTEXT : Integration of farms into markets with adoption of maize as a cash crop can significantly increase income of farms of the developing world. However, in some cases, the income generated may still be very low and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The global population is projected to exceed nine billion by 2050, necessitating continued food production and buffered supply growth. To meet the rising demand, governments have started implementing countermeasures, such ...
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(Wiley, 2023)Cluster farming is increasingly recognized as a viable means of improving smallholder economic integration and commercialization in many developing countries. However, little is known about its impact on smallholder welfare ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This paper focuses on analysing priorities on a global- and regional level but not on a national level. It explores the operating environment for South African agribusinesses using environmental scanning approaches to ...
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(African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2023)Evaluating the impact of agricultural practices helps policymakers and farmers in their decisionmaking. In Zambia, most households depend on agricultural activities, in particular maize production. This paper examines the ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-02)Recovering plant nutrients from human excreta streams through circular bioeconomy initiatives like co-composting may offer a cross-sectoral solution to waste management, sanitation, and agriculture. However, the failure ...
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(African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2023)In this paper, we explore the role of wildlife in climate change adaptation, especially in areas used predominantly for livestock production in South Africa. Using a sample of 3 449 wildlife and livestock ranches, we ...
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(African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2023)This study uses an online laboratory experiment and a post-experimental survey to test whether the Mastercard Foundation (MCF) scholarship programme causally influences the creation of cognitive social capital among ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)The study was influenced by the world’s growing interest in cooperatives, evidenced by the United Nations General Assembly declaring 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives. From a South African perspective, the study ...
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(African Scholarly Science Communications Trust, 2023-04)Public Extension services remain the repository and main source of agricultural information for smallholder farmers in developing countries. Their role includes linking farmers to relevant institutes and disseminating ...
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