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Research Articles (Johann Kirsten): Recent submissions
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1990-09)In hierdie artikel word streeksinset-uitsettabelle gebruik om die ekonomiese impak van besproeiingslandbou deur middel van 'n gevallestudie te bepaal. Die wyse waarop streeksinset-uitsettabelle saamgestel word, word bespreek. ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1995-12)Despite recognition of the need for special strategies to address the widespread incidence of rural poverty in developing countries, initiatives aimed at bringing about a transformation of the rural standard of living have ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2006-12)This paper develops the structure and closure of an econometric regime-switching model within a partial equilibrium framework that has the ability to generate reliable estimates and projections of endogenous variables under ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2003-12)Agribusiness, just as any other business, will fail if no profits are generated. Agricultural economists need to utilise the strenghts of sociology, anthropology, polical analysis and philosophy to equip themselves in order ...
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(Routledge, 2006-11)Cross-national regressions reveal abnormally low agricultural workforce shares, given GNP, in developing countries that had historically concentrated land into large capital-intensive farms. We argue that such deagricult ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1998-12)Despite the fact that all direct and indirect measures of subsidisation and protection have been removed, commercial agriculture is still widely considered to be subsidised, privileged and uncompetitive. This paper shows ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1995-12)There is a need to determine the extent to which the development and promotion of small-scale rural non-farm enterprises can be a vehicle to promote rural development and alleviate poverty. As a first step in developing ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1997-06)A survey on food consumption patterns was conducted in an urban black community and a rural black community. Urban consumers tend to consume more bread and less maize meal than rural consumers. Urban consumers consume more ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1998-12)South African agriculture is comprised of mainly two categories of farmers - the subsistence farmers in the former homeland areas and the large-scale commercial (mainly white) farmers. This is in contrast with the situation ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2000-12)This paper endeavours to update the series of PSE calculations based on the 1998 OECD methodology (OECD 1998) which is a slightly revised methodology from the earlier calculations. The OECD terminology also means that PSE ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2000-12)This article analyses factors influencing farmers' willingness-to-pay for dipping services, as well as the revealed preference for dipping frequency using the multivariate and logistic regression models. The study is based ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2001-12)A non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to measure the relative efficiency of wool production in the former Transkei. The agricultural activities on the farms are merely non-commercial. Wool is considered ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2001-03)One of the aims of the South African government is to create higher income opportunities for the previously disadvantaged black community. In agriculture, this would involve re-establishing and supporting diverse forms of ...
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How transaction costs influence cattle marketing decisions in the Northern Communal Areas of Namibia (Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2001-09)In this article a non-linear dynamic model is applied to determine the influence of transaction costs on the marketing decisions of cattle owners in the Northern Communal Areas of Namibia. The article tests the hypothesis ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2000-06)This article is a first attempt to understand the importance of the different export destinations and export commodities for South African agriculture. Knowledge of agricultural trade movements will make it possible to ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1992-12)Dit is steeds moontlik dat die Uruguay-rondte van Multilaterale Handelsonderhandelinge teen vroeg 1993 suksesvol afgesluit kan word. Indien 'n nuwe AOTH-ooreenkoms op grond van die huidige besprekingsdokument, die ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2001-06)In this paper a simple growth model is adapted to explain the effect of the agricultural sectors' growth on the non-agricultural sector. The empirical results suggest that for a 1% growth in the agricultural sector, the ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 1994-12)This paper analyses the causes and consequences of agricultural change in two regions of the former Bophuthatswana homeland of South Africa. The paper identifies a number of circumstances which provided the set of comprehensive ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2000-12)The paper gives an overview of the socio-economic profile of access to resources and social behaviour of rural households of the Northern Province of South Africa. The preliminary results of a survey conducted in 24 villages ...
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(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2002-12)The Presidential Address was delivered at the 40th annual conference of the Agricultural Economic Association of South Africa. It reviews the agricultural economic scholarship and research over the period of 40 years and ...
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