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Browsing UP Experts (Johann Kirsten Collection) by Type "Postprint Article"
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(Routledge, 2011-09)This paper reflects on the standing and impact of the work of agricultural economists in South Africa to illustrate the critical decisions faced by the profession as it contemplates its future. The focus is on the agricultural ...
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(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1998-01)This paper attempts to estimate the production, price, welfare and employment effects of some of the changes in the agricultural marketing system on the Western Cape Province of South Africa, utilizing a regional linear ...
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(Blackwell Publishing, 2006-06)During 2002 and 2003 retail food prices in South Africa increased dramatically. These increases put the spotlight on the concentration and market power of food manufacturing firms and retailers in the food supply chain. ...
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Attitudes and acceptance of South African urban consumers towards genetically modified white maize (Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2005-03)The introduction of genetically modified (GM) food products to food markets around the world, has led to considerable controversy. In many cases consumer attitudes and perceptions of GM food products were revealed as fears, ...
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(Elsevier, 2005-05)Industrial firms world wide have shed non-core business and outsourced these activities. An increasing number of sugar producers in Southern Africa have also outsourced their sugarcane production activities for both strategic ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2003-03)South Africa is one of few developing countries, and the only one in Africa that has adopted genetically modified crops for commercial production. The very impressive adoption rate of insect-resistant cotton in South Africa ...
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(Elsevier Science, 2005-10)The National Commercialisation of Indigenous Goats Project currently entails the establishment of goat production and processing units at various locations around South Africa. Raw products will be drawn from goats that ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2003-09)This paper proposes and analyses a model of relationships between smallholder sugarcane growers and millers in the Swaziland sugar industry supply chain. In particular, it identifies the behavioural factors that contribute ...
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(Routledge, 1996-06)The Farmer Support Programme was introduced specifically to deal with the constraints faced by smallholder farmers in the former homeland areas of South Africa. These farmers operate largely outside an effective organisational ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1996-12)This paper presents evidence from the former Lebowa to evaluate the impact of liquidity, input supply and distribution infrastructure, extension and training services on the quantities of inputs purchased and used by ...
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(Routledge, 1998)Anthropometric indicators were used to assess the nutritional status of rural households in the former KwaZulu homeland of South Africa. Using these measures, households with stunted children were identified and the ...
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The economic impact of irrigation agriculture: methodological aspects and an empirical application (Routledge, 1990-05)This article considers the regional economic impact of irrigation development by means of a case study. Theoretical aspects of irrigation development are discussed, followed by a brief overview of methodological alternatives ...
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(Routledge, 2000-10)This article is based on a literature review, which draws together evidence on the extent and nature of asset (land, machinery, durables, etc) inequality in rural areas and its impact on demographic incentives and behaviour ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1992-12)The specific objective of this paper is to determine expenditure patterns of rural households with a view to evaluating factors which make households more food secured. Expenditure patterns of households participating in ...
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(Elsevier, 1998-09)The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity has almost become a 'stylised fact' in the economic development literature. Most of the studies contributing to this preception have been flawed by methodological ...
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(Elsevier, 2007)The industrialization of agriculture and the potential problem of small-scale farmer marginalization calls for a fresh approach to the design of agribusiness supply chain arrangements in developing countries. The objective ...
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(Inderscience Publishing, 2005-06)The Republic of South Africa (RSA) is the first developing country to plant genetically modified staple food – Bt white maize. The following paper describes the development and spread of Bt maize in RSA that started in ...
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(Routledge, 2011-06)Most partial equilibrium models of the agricultural sector have not incorporated a dynamic and interlinked module for agricultural input expenditure. The South African Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) model, ...
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(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1994)The paper examines alternative modalities for the forthcoming process of land reform in South Africa. It is argued that the criteria of relieving rural poverty and maximizing allocative efficiency will conflict to some ...
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(Routledge, 2002-10)This article examines a new role for contract farming in developing countries in the light of the industrialisation of agriculture and the globalisation of world markets. A theoretical rationale for contracting in developing ...
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