Browsing Masters Degrees (Agricultural Economics) by Title
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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 ... -
Sustaining a rental market for arable land in the communal areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2002)In the communal areas of KwaZulu-Natal (hereafter referred to as KwaZulu 1 ), most households have little incentive to farm and land is cultivated extensively as farms are uniformly small, and food and income can be ... -
Testing the efficiency of the South African futures market for white and yellow maize.
(1999)An efficient futures market should provide a forecast of the future spot price which reflects all publicly available information; ideally, for effective price discovery such forecasts would also be unbiased. The trading ... -
Tourists' willingness-to-pay for biodiversity conservation accreditation.
(2007)Imperfect information on aspects of biodiversity conservation will constrain the extent to which tourists’ preferences for biodiversity conservation are revealed in game reserve (GR) tariffs, reducing the incentive for ... -
Urban biodiversity management in the face of climate change : livelihood impacts and adaptation strategies in Inanda community of eThekwini Metropolitan Area, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2014)Natural forest resources are an integral part of biodiversity for the livelihoods of rural communities. Studies have shown that natural forest products contribute significantly to maintaining livelihoods in developing ... -
Use of credit and its impact on small-scale farmer development in KwaZulu-Natal.
(1998)In 1995, the Strauss Commission of Inquiry was appointed to investigate rural financial services in South Africa. The inquiry was premised on the traditional view that the provision of financial services is a key strategy ... -
The values rural households attach to forest resources and their participation in community-based forest management : the case of three communities in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2012)Community-based forest management (CBFM) offers a better strategy for controlling forest resource degradation while at the same time benefiting local communities. With few exceptions, CBFM had been largely neglected in ...