OUTPUTS, INPUTS AND THE STRUCTURE OF AGRICULTURE

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » INTRODUCTION With the democratization of South Africa in 1994 and the introduction of land reform and farmer settlement programs to redress past injustices, the issue of finding appropriate support structures and service delivery...

Evaluating responses in complex adaptive systems: Insights on water management from the Southern African Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (SAfMA)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » WATER MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: RESPONSE THEATRE IN PROGRESS Southern Africa is characterized by high climatic variability, an uneven spatial and temporal distribution of runoff, and a history of attempts, with varying success,...

The impact of a productivity rise on south african gender and economy

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » SIMULATIONS: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DOHA ROUND Simulation 1 (Joint policies --combination of simulation 2 and 3 below) Simulation 2 (Tariff reduction): 100% cut in tariffs with flexible government savings and mobile labour...

A mathematical model that simulates control options for African swine fever virus (ASFV)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Materials and methods This is to certify that any sampling of live or dead pigs described within this chapter on Estimating the basic reproductive number (R0) for African swine fever virus (ASFV) transmission...

FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER 2 THE FINANCE-GROWTH NEXUS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE INTRODUCTION The aim of this chapter is to discuss theoretical and empirical literature on finance, production and economic growth. It attempts to explain the factors...

CONTRACT FARMING AS PART OF A MULTI-INSTRUMENT INCLUSIVE BUSINESS STRUCTURE

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER 3 INCLUSIVE BUSINESSES IN AGRICULTURE: DEFINING THE CONCEPT AND ITS COMPLEX AND EVOLVING PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURES IN THE FIELD6  INTRODUCTION Inclusive Businesses (IBs) are seen as an essential tool for raising low-income communities,...

THE EVOLVING LANDSCAPE OF PLANT BREEDERS’ RIGHTS FOR WHEAT VARIETAL IMPROVEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Wheat production in South Africa The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (2010) reports that the precise origin of wheat is not known, but there is evidence that the crop evolved from wild...

On Positivism, Functionalism and Alterity: A Critique of the Social Sciences

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Chapter Four On Positivism, Functionalism and Alterity: A Critique of the Social Sciences …when I went to Langa to do fieldwork in 1961, I was armed with an essentially ahistoricist and overly functionalist...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CONFLICT AND PEACE ISSUES IN ZIMBABWE – 1830s to 1977

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER 3 A   BRIEF   HISTORY   OF   CONFLICT   AND   PEACE   ISSUES     IN ZIMBABWE – 1830s to 1977 INTRODUCTION This chapter uses decolonial epistemic perspective to provide a historical brief on Zimbabwe. It surveys pre-colonial...

Agricultural inputs in partial equilibrium models

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Policy Environment South African agriculture has undergone major policy changes since the early 1980s. A complete summary of these changes is extensively discussed in Kirsten et al., (1994), Van Zyl et al., (2001),...