Browsing Masters Degrees (Agricultural Economics) by Title
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Labelling to promote broad-based Black economic empowerment in South Africa : a case study of the Thandi empowerment label.
(2007)Broad-based black economic empowerment (BBEE) is a policy objective in South Africa. Farmworker equity-share schemes (FWES) satisfy several of the empowerment goals specified by the proposed AgriBEE Scorecard. Information ... -
Land and water use rights in smallholder farming : impacts on productive use of irrigation water and entrepreneurial spirit in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2017)The increasing pressure on land and water resources in developing countries due to population growth has led to the need for improvement of the regulations that control the use of these scarce resources. However, the impact ... -
Land redistribution for agricultural development : an evaluation of stakeholder responses in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2004)The objective of this study is to research how the slow process of land redistribution in South Africa can be accelerated, given the urgency of land resettlement. A subprogramme of redistribution, Land Redistribution for ... -
Land redistribution in KwaZulu-Natal : an analysis of farmland transactions from 1997 until 2002.
(2004)Apartheid and colonialism left deep imprints on contemporary South African society. Nowhere are these more compellingly apparent than in the highly skewed distribution of land between whites and blacks. At the beginning ... -
Land redistribution in KwaZulu-Natal : an analysis of farmland transactions recorded in 1997 and 1998.
(2000)This research has two objectives: Firstly, to examine the rate of land redistribution in the province of KwaZulu-Natal during the years 1997 and 1998 as well as the performance of different modes of land redistribution. ... -
Loan products to manage liquidity stress when broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) enterprises invest in productive assets.
(2005)Investments in productive assets by broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) enterprises in South Africa (SA) during the 1990s have been constrained, in part, by a lack of access to capital. Even if capital can be ... -
Market reform, contestability and determinants of the Maize Board-Miller marketing margin in the South African maize industry.
(1996)The dissertation analyses market reform in the South African Maize Industry at two levels. Firstly, aspects of the theory of contestable markets are used to analyze maize grain marketing reform and identify what measures ... -
Measuring household resilience in developing countries : evidence from six African countries.
(2011)In this study, a household resilience score was developed as a measure of rural household resilience to identify households with low resilience and to measure progress towards improved household resilience. Resilience is ... -
Measuring rural household vulnerability to food insecurity : the case of uMzimkhulu Local Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The objective of this study is to examine the factors associated with vulnerability to food insecurity among rural households in Umzimkhulu Local Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal. This includes identification of the most ... -
Measuring the operational competitiveness of commercial operations in public protected areas under Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife : implications for ecotourism in the KwaZulu-Natal Province.
(2015)In many countries, most of the wildlife and biodiversity remains under state control, and the state employs conservation agencies to regulate their use and management. However, state sanctioned protection of wildlife and ... -
Mopane worms and household food security in the Limpopo Province, South Africa.
(2013)The main objective of this study is to examine the potential contribution of households’ involvement in mopane worm activities (harvesting, commercialisation and consumption) to households’ food security in the Mopani ... -
Perceptions and management of risk by commercial farmers in Eritrea.
(2004)A survey of 186 commercial farmers from three Zobas (provinces) of Eritrea was conducted between November 2002 and February 2003 to examine farmers' perceptions of risk, to determine the most important sources of risk ... -
Projecting international demand for and supply of protein feed.
(2001)South African imports of protein feed (oilcake or meal) increased 210% from 1990 to 1998/1999. Over that same period local production increased by only 14% and imported protein feed now accounts for over 50% of local ... -
Risk and market deregulation : attitudes of commercial farmers in KwaZulu-Natal.
(1997)In a postal survey conducted among a sample of 112 commercial farmers in KwaZulu-Natal during 1996, sources and dimensions of risk, computer use and farmers' attitudes towards free trade and deregulated domestic markets ... -
Smallholder farmers' willingness and ability to pay for improved irrigation : a case of Msinga Local Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal Province.
(2014)Water is the essence of life for humankind. Due to water scarcity from increased population and increased demand for the resource, there is a need to allocate the water efficiently. Economists have proposed water pricing ... -
Social grant dependence, irrigation water use and on-farm entrepreneurial spirit: a behavioural explanation for smallholders in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2018)Unemployment, poverty, hunger and inequality still remain the key rural development challenges in South Africa. Since the demise of apartheid, one of the key objectives of the South African government has been to decrease ... -
Sources and management of risk in large-scale sugarcane farming in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2007)The South African (SA) sugar industry supports approximately 50,940 small and large scale producers who collectively produce 22 million tons of sugarcane seasonally, on average. SA farmers face many challenges that lead ... -
South African citrus farmers' perceptions of the benefits and costs of compliance with private sector certification schemes for citrus exports.
(2010)The main objective of this study was to analyse South African (SA) citrus farmers’ perceptions of the benefits and costs of complying with quality assurance (QA) certification schemes for citrus exports to the European ... -
Spatial prioritisation of conservation areas on the fringes of KwaZulu-Natal protected areas : application of the characteristics framework using tourism competitiveness.
(2014)Prioritisation of conservation areas has become a major area of study over the last few decades as a result of greatly increased rates of biodiversity loss and extinction with the rapidly expanding human population and ...