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View article: Wool Versus Mutton: Enterprise Budgets from Survey Data for the Karoo and the Effects of Drought on Profitability
Wool Versus Mutton: Enterprise Budgets from Survey Data for the Karoo and the Effects of Drought on Profitability Open
The study assesses the profitability of Karoo farms. It develops an enterprise wool and mutton production budget from eight years of survey data collected from 73 farms. Costs are presented in constant 2019 Rand so that data from various y…
View article: Benefits of Herding on Communal Rangelands in Free State Province, South Africa
Benefits of Herding on Communal Rangelands in Free State Province, South Africa Open
This study used survey data to measure the benefits of paid herding for small stockholders on the communal rangelands of the eastern Free State. Extensionists can recommend herding to their clients because it mitigated the worst of a recen…
View article: Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children’s educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar
Exploring social indicators in smallholder food systems: modeling children’s educational outcomes on crop-livestock family farms in Madagascar Open
Promoting smallholders’ sustainable development in Africa means addressing agronomic and economic factors but also highly relevant social influences shaping farmers’ production and affecting household well-being. Holistic, integrated analy…
View article: Benefits of Herding on Communal Rangelands in Free State Province, South Africa
Benefits of Herding on Communal Rangelands in Free State Province, South Africa Open
This study used survey data to measure the benefits of paid herding for small stockholders on the communal rangelands of the eastern Free State. Extensionists can recommend herding to their clients because it mitigated the worst of a recen…
View article: Cereal Production in the Eastern Free State, 1981 – 2007: Can Agricultural Extension Deliver Food Security?
Cereal Production in the Eastern Free State, 1981 – 2007: Can Agricultural Extension Deliver Food Security? Open
Since 1989, South Africa's agricultural productivity growth has reached a standstill while the South African population has kept growing at 1.93% per annum. Although the country is a surplus maize producer, per capita maize production has …
View article: The Economics of Agricultural Productivity in South Africa
The Economics of Agricultural Productivity in South Africa Open
Accurate measures of productivity growth are an important policy tool but are difficult to obtain in South African circumstances. In this article, we review work on the measurement of farm-level productivity in South Africa since the earli…
View article: Impact of heat and moisture stress on crop productivity: Evidence from the Langgewens Research Farm
Impact of heat and moisture stress on crop productivity: Evidence from the Langgewens Research Farm Open
We investigated the effect of heat and moisture stress on total factor productivity in crop farming under experimental farm conditions. Heat stress is the number of days during the growing season during which the maximum temperature exceed…
View article: Incorporating extension measures into farm productivity models with practical guidelines for extension staff
Incorporating extension measures into farm productivity models with practical guidelines for extension staff Open
This study formulates a conceptual model of the knowledge transfer process to evaluate the treatment of extension in a sample of 30 total factor productivity models.Three studies did not include a training or extension proxy, 15 studies us…
View article: Preparing papers for the south african journal of agricultural extension
Preparing papers for the south african journal of agricultural extension Open
Successful journal submissions follow a predictable format and vary in length of between 5000 and 6500 words, including references.Formulating well-defined, tight research questions that contribute to an open aspect of the extension litera…
View article: How stable are farmers’ risk perceptions? A follow-up study of one community in the Karoo
How stable are farmers’ risk perceptions? A follow-up study of one community in the Karoo Open
Two cohorts of Likert scale risk data were subjected to rigorous principal component analysis to simplify the participants’ risk rankings. This improves methodologically on the first Karoo risk analysis. More than 80% of the items and two-…
View article: Designing Successful Land Reform For The Extensive Grazing Sector
Designing Successful Land Reform For The Extensive Grazing Sector Open
The purpose of this paper is to identify the determinants of success in commercial sheep farming in the Karoo so that these characteristics can be designed into smallholder commercialisation programmes there and in the former homelands of …
View article: Labour Demand in the Post‐apartheid South African Wine Industry
Labour Demand in the Post‐apartheid South African Wine Industry Open
In 2013 the minimum agricultural wage in South Africa was increased by an unprecedented 51%. We use data on 77 Western Cape Province wine grape farms from 2005–2015 to estimate the impacts on employment. Previous post‐apartheid labour mark…
View article: Preliminary indications of the negative effects of climate change on the West Coast wine industry's performance
Preliminary indications of the negative effects of climate change on the West Coast wine industry's performance Open
Western Cape agriculture's strong TFP growth over the second half of the twentieth century is explained by access to irrigation water. Drier conditions are predicted for the western escarpment, a region severely affected by the current dro…
View article: Can agro-processing lead re-industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa? A two-stage approach to productivity analysis
Can agro-processing lead re-industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa? A two-stage approach to productivity analysis Open
This analysis sits against the backdrop of unsuccessful attempts to reindustrialise Africa. Zambia must diversify from copper dependency to agriculture and the agro-processing sectors, and the question is whether there is enough capacity t…
View article: Understanding the black-backed jackal
Understanding the black-backed jackal Open
This paper reviews what we know about black-backed jackal ecology, drawing implications for managing human-wildlife conflict with this species. We review the research literature on the black-backed jackals in the context of other African j…
View article: A brief history of predators, sheep farmers and government in the Western Cape, South Africa
A brief history of predators, sheep farmers and government in the Western Cape, South Africa Open
This paper provides a brief history of the conflict between South African sheep farmers and predators (and we touch also on the debate between diverse stakeholders over how best to respond to that conflict). We focus in particular on black…
View article: Ranking perceived risk to farmers: How important is the environment?
Ranking perceived risk to farmers: How important is the environment? Open
This study investigates the structure of farmers’ risk perceptions in an arid area where agriculture faces many difficulties. Principal component analysis identified four components of risk from amongst twenty Likert scale items, including…
View article: The implications of a weak public extension service for the productivity performance of Karoo Agriculture
The implications of a weak public extension service for the productivity performance of Karoo Agriculture Open
This study used data on farmers' preferred sources of information in three areas of their business to investigate what happens to farm productivity when the public extension service is dismantled.The majority of the farmers interviewed pre…