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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development) by Title
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The South African government has committed under the Paris Agreement to mitigate the growing emissions by 42 percent below the business-as-usual scenario in 2025. A carbon tax is one of the policy tools used to mitigate ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-08-05)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-08-02)The use and trade in medicinal plant products in South Africa is a cultivating sector of rural development. In order to conserve these plants and develop sustainable production, policies to promote domestication have been ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-11-18)Malnutrition remains a persistent and increasing problem in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Food production has not kept pace with population growth, and many people have poor access to adequate, nutritious diet. In many areas ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The study uses cross-sectional data to test whether FSPs improve technical efficiencies (TEs) of smallholder maize farmers. Using plot level data collected from 30 FSP and 66 non-FSP farmers drawn from Mgojweni, Mabetshe, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This study used farm-level data to test whether contract farming can account for technical efficiency differentials amongst smallholder tobacco farmers from Hurungwe District in Zimbabwe independent of self-selection bias, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Agricultural productivity in the Sub Saharan African (SSA) region has been cited to be low (Suttie & Benfica, 2016). As a result, there is a consistent call for evolution in smallholder farming. In addition to improving ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-07-08)Since adoption is a dynamic process that involves learning about new technologies, static adoption models fail to adequately explore the effects of changes in farmers’ perception and attitudes over time. This study analyzed ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-05-16)Irrigation scheduling is accepted as the process to decide when to irrigate crops and how much to apply and is assumed to play an important role in the general improvement of water efficiency on the farm. However, the idea ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This study highlights the many differences among the Riet River farmers, as well as the differences in the constraints they endure, including major differences in productivity (with types 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 14 experiencing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Accelerating volatility, complexity and scrutiny will be the norm in the landscape for agribusiness value chains as the future unfolds. Evidence of this new landscape is clear from the extent and intricacy of global food ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-06-02)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 1994)The Farmer Support Programme (FSP) was introduced in South Africa by the Development BanK of Southern Africa (DBSA) as one of the major agricultural development strategies to support black farmers who have been historically ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-06-02)This study had two main objectives. One objective was to measure the aggregate impact of climate change on income from all agricultural production systems (crop, livestock and mixed) in Africa and to predict future impacts ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study uses data from Swaziland to test whether variations in local agro-ecological regions levels of drought susceptibility and other socioeconomic factors significantly determine farmer selected drought coping and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The uncertain nature of agricultural production makes risk management essential in providing farmers with protection against potential losses. Crop insurance is a sustainable risk management tool that ensures the sustainability ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Chronic food and nutrition insecurity in Africa persists amid high rates of poverty and malnutrition. The cumulative effect of protracted conflicts, economic decline, extreme weather events and the erosion of livelihoods ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Rapid commodity and food price increases were driven by the commodity super-cycle experienced between 2005 and 2008. This subsequently resulted in a wave of literature on food prices and food inflation. Two main lines of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The Namibian government introduced the Small Stock Marketing Scheme (SSMS) for the sheep market in 2004. The SSMS is a quantitative export restriction. Quantitative export restriction policies decrease the tradable quantity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)South Africa has been a net importer of wheat for the past two decades. Due to the inverse relationship between quality and yields, it has been argued that the pursuit of the high wheat quality standards as set by government ...
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