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 ...

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 ...

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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Malawi experiences frequent and intense extreme weather events that affect rain-fed household maize production. Thus, households have adopted various climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices to cushion maize production ...

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 ...

The adoption of improved technologies is widely recognized as key to improving agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. This study analyzes adoption patterns and intensity of multiple banana technologies in Uganda ...

Irrespective of result of the next year's election, the new government will still face the same problems in agriculture.

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 ...

The private sector leaves supporting emerging farmers to government, while government leaves it to the private sector to find ways of dealing with small producers that make good business sense.