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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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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 ...

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 ...

Despite the existing body of literature dealing with policies and policy change and the impact of institutions on these changes, very little is understood about how food security policies emerge on the policy agenda and ...

This thesis argues that the full impact of Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS) driven research, that works to enhance not only agricultural production and productivity but also market linkages cannot be captured effectively ...

The recent addition of Karoo Lamb to South Africa’s repertoire of products with a regional identity attracted extensive publicity. The news headlines that spoke of challenges to protect the geographical name, discrepancies ...

The production of biofuels in South Africa has evolved very slowly and at present there are only a handful of plants producing some derivative of biofuel. The lack of commitment from government and the utter information ...

This study examines the intra-gender welfare outcomes both with and without adverse household level shocks using two unique panel datasets, namely Living Standards Measurement Study Integrated Survey (LSMS) and the Feed ...