Research Articles (Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development)

Research Articles (Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development)

 

This collection contains some of the full text peer-reviewed/ refereed articles published by researchers from the Department of Agricultural Economics Extension and Rural Development

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  • Gianelli, Ignacio; Achieng, Therezah; Amon, Diva; Archibald, Sally; Arif, Suchinta; Castro, Azucena; Chimbadzwa, Tapiwa Prosper; Coetzer, Kaera L.; Field, Tracy-Lynn; Selomane, Odirilwe; Slingsby, Jasper A.; Stevens, Nicola; Villasante, Sebastian; Armani, Mohammed; Kimuyu, Duncan M.; Adewumi, Ibukun J.; Lapola, David M.; Obura, David; Pinho, Patricia; Roa-Clavijo, Felipe; Rocha, Juan; Sumaila, U. Rashid (Copernicus Publications, 2024-04)
    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 ...
  • Madududu, Pamela; Jourdain, Damien; Tran, Duc; Degieter, Margo; Karuaihe, Selma Tuemumunu; Ntuli, Herbert; De Steur, Hans (Elsevier, 2024-11)
    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 ...
  • Nketiah, Prince; Ntuli, Herbert (AOSIS, 2024-03)
    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 ...
  • Bustamante, Mercedes; Roy, Joyashree; Ospina, Daniel; Achakulwisut, Ploy; Aggarwal, Anubha; Bastos, Ana; Broadgate, Wendy; Canadell, Josep G.; Carr, Edward R.; Chen, Deliang; Cleugh, Helen A.; Ebi, Kristie L.; Edwards, Clea; Farbotko, Carol; Fernandez-Martinez, Marcos; Frolicher, Thomas L.; Fuss, Sabine; Geden, Oliver; Gruber, Nicolas; Harrington, Luke J.; Hauck, Judith; Hausfather, Zeke; Hebden, Sophie; Hebinck, Aniek; Huq, Saleemul; Huss, Matthias; Jamero, M. Laurice P.; Juhola, Sirkku; Kumarasinghe, Nilushi; Lwasa, Shuaib; Mallick, Bishawjit; Martin, Maria; McGreevy, Steven; Mirazo, Paula; Mukherji, Aditi; Muttitt, Greg; Nemet, Gregory F.; Obura, David; Okereke, Chukwumerije; Oliver, Tom; Orlove, Ben; Ouedraogo, Nadia S.; Patra, Prabir K.; Pelling, Mark; Pereira, Laura M.; Persson, Asa; Pongratz, Julia; Prakash, Anjal; Rammig, Anja; Raymond, Colin; Redman, Aaron; Reveco, Cristobal; Rockstrom, Johan; Regina Rodrigues; Rounce, David R.; Schipper, E. Lisa F.; Schlosser, Peter; Selomane, Odirilwe; Semieniuk, Gregor; Shin, Yunne-Jai; Siddiqui, Tasneem A.; Singh, Vartika; Sioen, Giles B.; Sokona, Youba; Stammer, Detlef; Steinert, Norman J.; Suk, Sunhee; Sutton, Rowan; Thalheimer, Lisa; Thompson, Vikki; Trencher, Gregory; Van der Geest, Kees; Werners, Saskia E.; Wubbelmann, Thea; Wunderling, Nico; Yin, Jiabo; Zickfeld, Kirsten; Zscheischler, Jakob (Cambridge University Press, 2023-12)
    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 ...
  • Phonchi-Tshekiso, Nametso Dorothy; Slingsby, Jasper A.; Selomane, Odirilwe (Taylor and Francis, 2024)
    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 ...
  • Dama, Tshilidzi Isaac; Loki, Olwethu; Fitawek, Wegayehu; Mpuzu, Sikwela M. (Elsevier, 2024-12)
    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 ...
  • Mabon, Leslie; Layard, Antonia; De Vito, Laura; Few, Roger; Hatzisavvidou, Sophia; Shackleton, Charlie; Marshall, Adam; Marciniak, Gilles; Moersberger, Hannah (Elsevier, 2024-08)
    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 ...
  • Hatab, Assem Abu; Owusu-Sekyere, Enoch; Esmat, Abou-Rehab; Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan (Elsevier, 2023-10)
    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 ...
  • Ibrahim, Hussain Kobe; Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Schonfeldt, H.C. (Hettie Carina) (Taylor and Francis, 2023-06-13)
    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 ...
  • Bwanaisa, Mercy; Hendriks, Sheryl L. (Frontiers Media, 2023-07-13)
    Dietary quality has significant implications for health, nutrition and life quality. Yet, most people in developing countries, such as Malawi, consume inadequate diets due to the high cost of healthy and nutritious food. ...
  • Collste, David; Aguiar, Ana Paula D.; Harmackova, Zuzana V.; Galafassi, Diego; Pereira, Laura M.; Selomane, Odirilwe; Van Der Leeuw, Sander (IOP Publishing, 2023-05-24)
    The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include social and ecological goals for humanity. Navigating towards reaching the goals requires the systematic inclusion of perspectives from a diversity of voices. ...
  • Ntuli, Herbert; Crepin, Anne‑Sophie; Schill, Caroline; Muchapondwa, Edwin (Springer, 2023-03)
    We investigate the behavioural responses of natural common-pool resource users to three policy interventions—sanctioned quotas, information provisioning, and a combination of both. We focus on situations in which users ...
  • Owusu-Sekyere, Enoch; Cissé, Fatoumata Nankoto; Achandi, Esther Leah (Elsevier, 2024-05)
    Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy is a major developmental challenge in Africa. The present study investigates the determinants and impact of adopting solar energy on Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) ...
  • Tinarwo, Joseph; Babu, Suresh Chandra (Wiley, 2023-05)
    Recent economic relations including foreign assistance scenario in Africa show expansion of China and India as emerging bilateral partners, competing with traditional countries in Europe and North America. The results of ...
  • Mazwane, Sukoluhle; Maya, Okuhle; Makhura, Moraka Nakedi (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2024)
    Supply chain finance continues to play an important role in servicing businesses that have limited access to finance. With the disruptions associated with the fourth industrial revolution, opportunities exist in Africa to ...
  • Kennedy, Eileen T.; Torero, Maximo A.; Mozaffarian, Dariush; Masters, William A.; Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Morrison, Jamie A.; Merrigan, Kathleen A.; Ghosh, Shibani A.; Mason-d’Croz, Daniel E. (Elsevier, 2023-05)
    A transformation of food systems is needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals specified in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recognizing the true costs and benefits of food production and consumption ...
  • Phiri, Precious T.; Ruzhani, Freddy; Madzokere, Faustino; Madududu, Pamela (Taylor and Francis, 2023-07-31)
    Small-scale broiler farming has become one of the fastest-growing subsectors in Zimbabwe. However, the profitability levels of these small ventures have been questioned due to the rising production costs owing to the ...
  • Chitete, Moses M.M.N.; Mgomezulu, Wisdom Richard; Bwanaisa, Mercy; Phiri, Horace; Dzanja, Joseph (Sage, 2023-03)
    Efficient agricultural markets can be a bedrock for diverse economy-wide benefits ranging from improvements in resource use to price stabilisation. However, as is the case with most developing and agrarian countries, ...
  • Chitete, Moses M.M.N.; Mgomezulu, Wisdom Richard; Bwanaisa, Mercy; Damazio, Chitsanzo; Kaunda, Robert Tauka; Dzanja, Joseph (Sage, 2024)
    The main purpose of this study was to review the performance of agricultural marketing in Malawi. Using a systematic review, the study synthesizes factors affecting performance of agricultural marketing in Malawi. It ...
  • Atieno, Prisca; Hendriks, Sheryl L. (BMC, 2023-03-29)
    The heterogeneity of food security indicators and the lack of consensus on comparing and ranking countries have driven international organisations to build composite indicators (Santeramo 2015). Composite indicators are ...

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