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Theses and Dissertations (Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development): Recent submissions
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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, 1950)No abstract available
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)While composite indicators have become a valuable tool in policymaking, benchmarking and public communication processes, outliers and outdated data challenge their reliability. Outliers are large or small values in a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study was carried out because smallholder farmers are generally excluded from accessing financial services and results in them being credit rationed. Smallholder’s socio-economic characteristics influence or become a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)This study determines whether the Mastercard Foundation (MCF) Scholarship Program causally influences the creation of cognitive social capital among University of Pretoria scholarship recipients, by using an online lab ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-10)The last mile may constrain socioeconomic development and the achievement of household food security and nutrition as households are remote and distant from public facilities such as roads, health facilities and markets. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-07-23)After decades of persistently low use of agricultural mechanisation, the proportion of African farmers using tractors has rapidly increased since 2005. The conventional perception is that tractor use in sub-Saharan Africa ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The international trade in agriculture and food markets are characterised by extensive use of regulatory measures. Most of the measures used comprise Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures (SPS) and Technical Barriers to Trade ...
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The effects of outdated data and outliers on Kenya's 2019 Global Food Security Index score and rank (University of Pretoria, 2021-04)While composite indicators are considered robust in measuring food security, outdated data and outliers challenge their reliability. Outdated data can occur when national databases are not frequently updated while outliers ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)It is important to track food inflation from a development perspective as it is indicative of food access for the poor. Discussions on food inflation in Eswatini have gained traction due to its effects on welfare erosion ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Composite indicators have gained popularity in various research areas, such as performance monitoring and decision making. However, the determination of an appropriate weighting method is a significant problem in the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The purpose of this dissertation is to conduct a viability study of a revenue-based crop insurance product, focussing on the white maize market in South Africa. It has been established that multi-peril crop insurance ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Smallholder farmers across the world, including Mozambique, are often faced with limited growth potential. This could mainly be attributed to an inability to purchase sufficient inputs to produce more and better-quality ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-02)The European Union (EU) market is important for South African citrus exporters; however, the increase in non-tariff measures (NTMs), such as SPS requirements by the EU, to some extent may have an impact on South African ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Based on cross-sectional data drawn from 135 treated and 68 control farmers in Tanzania, and 133 treated and 71 control farmers in Zambia, this study uses propensity score matching to test whether conservation agriculture ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Financial exclusion remains a challenge in Malawi despite government efforts to increase financial inclusion through the development of policies and the implementation of financial inclusion strategies. Limited information ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The rapid growth of countries that opened their markets to international trade has led to an increase in the number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs). A number of countries have signed these agreements with their regional ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Financial inclusion is fundamental to sustainable agriculture and inclusive rural economic development. Prevailing dominant measurements of financial inclusion (FI) tend to measure the concept as access to bank services ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-01-30)Maize production remains low in Eswatini. The small country is still unable to meet the local demand through local production. Maize is Eswatini’s staple food but the country has not yet reached self-sufficiency. This ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)Soybean crushing plants operate on a crush margin, which is the monetary difference between the combined sales value of mainly soybean meal and soybean oil and the cost of raw soybeans. However, given the high volatility ...
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