Browsing Masters Degrees (Agricultural Economics) by Issue Date
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Adoption of hybrid maize seed, fertilizer and machinery technologies by communal farmers in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2001)This study investigates the characteristics of technology adoption by small-scale farmers, notably the factors influencing the adoption of hybrid maize seed, inorganic fertilizer and machinery technologies. The study also ... -
Economic impacts of land fragmentation in Butare, southern Rwanda.
(2002)Butare, where this study was conducted, exhibits one of the highest population densities in Rwanda. Agriculture is the dominant economic sector and provides employment for more than 90 per cent of the working population. ... -
Economic and institutional factors affecting the performance of the graduated mortgage loan repayment scheme used by medium-scale sugarcane farmers in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2003)Private sector sugar millers and Ithala Development Finance Corporation (Ithala) implemented a graduated mortgage loan repayment scheme in the 1995/96 sugarcane production-season to try and improve access to farmland by ... -
Best institutional practices for farmworker and community equity-sharing schemes in South Africa.
(2003)Farmworker equity-share schemes were initiated by the private sector in the Western Cape region of South Africa in the early 1990's as a method of redistributing farm assets to land reform beneficiaries while maintaining ... -
Efficiency implications of water markets in the lower Orange and Crocodile rivers, South Africa.
(2004)Irrigation farmers in the Lower Orange (Kakamas and Boegoeberg) and Lower Crocodile rivers (between Nelspruit and Komatipoort) areas in South Africa were surveyed during October 2003 in order to study whether water ... -
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 ... -
Feasible indicators for monitoring the performance of equity-share schemes in South African agriculture.
(2004)This study aims to develop a robust methodology for measuring the performance of equity-share schemes in South African agriculture. Equity-share schemes are privately owned farming operations that are generally restructured ... -
Factors affecting the survival, growth and success of small, medium and micro agribusinesses in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2004)The sustained growth of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) could help to reduce poverty, income inequality and unemployment problems in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Public and private sector institutions can identify ... -
Improving the productivity and competitiveness of small-scale sugarcane contractors in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2004)The productivity of small-scale sugarcane contractors affects not only their own profitability and sustainability, but that of other stakeholders as well, such as the small-scale sugarcane farmers they contract to and ... -
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 ... -
Improving access by smallholder farmers to organic crop supply chains : evidence from the Ezemvelo Farmers' Organization, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2005)The 48 members of the Ezemvelo Farmers' Organisation (EFO) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa (SA), that were fully-certified as organic farmers were surveyed during October-December 2004 to assess their perceived level ... -
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 ... -
Impact of farmer support and socio-economic factors on agricultural production in Gikongoro Province, Rwanda.
(2005)Rwanda, in its transition phase since 1994, has had the support of major international development organizations, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations Development Program, ... -
A demand analysis of labour in South African agriculture : the effects of labour legislation.
(2006)Labour legislation was introduced into agriculture in the early 1990s with the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) being gazetted in 1992. Since the mid-1990s "new" labour legislation pertaining to agriculture has ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Factors affecting participation in livestock lease agreements : a study of dorper sheep and jersey cattle farmers in South Africa.
(2007)This dissertation investigates the hypotheses that high transaction costs contribute to relatively low participation rates in livestock leasing in South Africa; and that specific contractual characteristics contribute to ... -
The economic impact of a rural land tax on selected commercial farms in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2007)This study investigates the potential economic impact of a land tax implemented in terms of the Local Government Municipal Property Rates Act No. 6 of 2004 (“the LGMPRA”) on selected commercial farms in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) ... -
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 ...