HarvestChoice keeps catalogs of both raster and vector maps of sub-Saharan Africa (downloadable in either ASCII or ESRI Shapefile formats) along with their associated datasets. We also provide access to over 400 articles, survey and census reports on agriculture-related topics in support of investment targeting and prioritization decisions.

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A Long-Run View of South African Agricultural Production and Productivity

Authored by:
Liebenberg, Frikke; Pardey, Philip G.
Publisher:
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, October 2012, Volume 7, Issue 1, 14-38.
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Here we present and discuss newly constructed long-run data on agricultural input and output aggregates for South Africa spanning most of the 20th century. Updated multi-factor productivity (MFP) measures for South Africa for the last half of the 20th century are also presented.

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South African Agricultural Productivity and Investment Patterns

Authored by:
Liebenberg, Frikke
Edited by: 
Fuglie, Keith O.; Ball, V. Eldon; Wang, Sun Ling
Publisher:
Productivity Growth in Agriculture: An International Perspective, CABI, 2012, 293-312.
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South African Agricultural R&D Investments: Sources, Structure, and Trends, 1910-2007

Authored by:
Liebenberg, Frikke; Pardey, Philip G.; Kahn, M.
Publisher:
Agrekon, 2011, Volume 50, Issue 2, 1-26.
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The twentieth century saw substantive shifts in the structure, funding and conduct of public agricultural research and development (R&D) and related regulatory and extension activities in South Africa. Following a long period of steady (and at times quite rapid) growth beginning in the early twentieth century, real spending on public agricultural R&D has essentially flat lined since the 1970s.

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South African Agricultural R&D: Policies and Public Institutions, 1880–2007

Authored by:
Liebenberg, Frikke; Pardey, Philip G.
Publisher:
Agrekon: Agricultural Economics Research, Policy and Practice in Southern Africa, 2011, Volume 50, Issue 1, 1-15.
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In South Africa, government engagement in agricultural R&D and associated technical support services dates back to at least the 1880s.

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