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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Production and productivity developments in South Africa have regional consequences:
South Africa’s agricultural economy accounted for 43.1% of the agricultural GDP of

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What Is the Irrigation Potential for Africa? A Combined Biophysical and Socioeconomic Approach

Authored by:
You, Liangzhi; Ringler, Claudia; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; Robertson, Richard; Wood, Stanley; Zhu, Tingiu; Nelson, Gerald; Guo, Zhe; Sun, Yan
Publisher:
Food Policy, December, 2011, Volume 36, Issue 6, 770-782.
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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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Ex Ante Analysis of the Benefits of Transgenic Drought Tolerance Research on Cereal Crops in Low-income Countries

Authored by:
Kostandini, Genti; Mills, Bradford F.; Omamo, Steven Were; Wood, Stanley
Publisher:
Agricultural Economics, July, 2009, Volume 40, Issue 4, 477-492.
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This article develops a framework to examine the ex ante benefits of transgenic research on drought in eight low-income countries, including the benefits to producers and consumers from farm income stabilization and the potential magnitude of private sector profits from intellectual property rights (IPRs).

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Generating Plausible Crop Distribution Maps for Sub-Saharan Africa Using a Spatially Disagreggated Data Fusion and Optimization Approach

Authored by:
You, Liangzhi; Wood, Stanley; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike
Publisher:
Agricultural Systems, February, 2009, Volume 99, Issue 2-3, 126-140.
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Large gaps exist in our knowledge of the current geographic distribution and spatial patterns of performance of crops, and these gaps are unlikely to be filled.

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Potential of Herbicide-Resistant Rice Technologies for Sub-Saharan Africa

Authored by:
Rodenburg, Jonne; Demont, Matty
Publisher:
AgBioForum, 2009, Volume 12, Issue 3 & 4,
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Weed-inflicted yield losses in rice equate to half the current rice imports in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and African rice farmers have a limited range of effective and affordable weed management technologies.

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Generating Plausible Crop Distribution Maps for Sub-Saharan Africa Using a Spatial Allocation Model

Authored by:
You, Liangzhi; Wood, Stanley; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; Chamberlin, Jordan
Publisher:
Information Development, May, 2007, Volume 23, Issue 2-3, 151-159.
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Agricultural production statistics are fundamental parameters for agriculture policy research.

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Demand for Livestock Tick Control Service in the Venda Region, Northern Province

Authored by:
Randela, R.; Liebenberg, G.F.; Kirsten, J.F.; Townsend, R.F.
Publisher:
Agrekon, December 2000, Volume 39, Issue 4, 644-655.
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This article analyses factors influencing farmers’ willingness-to-pay for dipping services, as well as the revealed preference for dipping frequency using the multivariate and the logistic regression

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