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Assessing the performance of GM Maize amongst smallholders in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Gouse, Marnus; Piesse, J. (Jenifer); Thirtle, Colin G., 1944-; Poulton, Colin (University of Missouri, 2009)

This study uses data for the 2006/07 maize production season, for the Hlabisa, Dumbe, and Simdlangentsha districts in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to investigate the relative efficiencies of conventional, insect-resistant ...
Modeling the length and shape of the R&D lag : an application to UK agricultural productivity

Thirtle, Colin G., 1944-; Piesse, J. (Jenifer); Schimmelpfennig, David (Blackwell, 2008)

This article updates total factor productivity (TFP) growth in UK agriculture from 1953–2005 and shows that public and private research and returns to scale explain TFP. Cointegration and causality tests are used to ...
Modelling efficiency with farm-produced inputs : dairying in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Mkhabela, T.; Piesse, J. (Jenifer); Thirtle, Colin G., 1944-; Vink, Nick (Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2010-03)

This paper models dairy farms in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, emphasising the complexities unique to this multi-product industry. Net and gross output approaches to measuring production are discussed and then tested using ...
Output and labour effects of GM maize and minimum tillage in a communal area of Kwa-Zulu-Natal

Gouse, Marnus; Piesse, J. (Jenifer); Thirtle, Colin G., 1944- (Economic Society of South Africa, 2006-12)

Insect resistant (Bt) white maize and minimum tillage are being adopted by smallholders in Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal. Bt cotton contains the genes controlling the production of a natural insecticide, Bacillus thuringiensis ...
Three bubbles and a panic : an explanatory review of recent food commodity price events

Piesse, J. (Jenifer); Thirtle, Colin G., 1944- (Elsevier, 2009)

This paper is a summary of the behaviour of food commodity prices in 2007–2008 and a review of the causes of the price increases, extracted from a report to the Chief Scientific Advisor to Her Majesty’s Government [Thirtle, ...
What is the appropriate level of aggregation for productivity indices? Comparing district, regional and national measures

Conradie, Beatrice; Piesse, J. (Jenifer); Thirtle, Colin G., 1944- (Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2009)

This paper examines the appropriate level of aggregation for the construction of total factor productivity (TFP) indices. The dataset covers the magisterial districts and statistical regions of the Western Cape for the ...

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