Access to adequate and nutritionally balanced food to achieve a productive and healthy life for all individuals, on a daily basis, has been an elusive challenge in several parts of the world. In many developing countries such as Botswana, increasing per capita food consumption has been hampered...

This study investigates the extent of employment opportunities and patterns in the hospitality industry of Swaziland. Unemployment is a universal problem with which the political leadership of almost every country has to wrestle. Swaziland is a developing country faced with high unemployment,...

Prior to 1997, South Africas maize marketing was organised as a single-channel fixed price system that gave privileged rights of entry to buyers and hindered the development of a more decentralized and lower-cost system. This system encouraged concentration in maize milling and gave sheltered...

The objective of this study is to identify the transaction costs factors and household characteristics that influence the farmers choice of cattle marketing channels in Mahalapye district, Botswana. The marketing channels are, typically, the Botswana Meat Commission and the local butchers. The...

The role-players in the South African (SA) agricultural sector have in recent years been increasingly exposed to international agricultural markets and this can have an important impact on them because (1) they are generally price-takers in world markets and (2) the rate of change in...

The objective of this study is to investigate the role of transaction costs in determining market participation of smallholder farmers. It is expected that the identification of these transaction cost factors could assist in the formulation of policy interventions and/or institutional...

Economic valuation of the Okavango Delta can support decision making in a complex socio-economic environment in which economic development depends on a deep understanding of the value of biodiversity. The use of a natural resource accounting framework in determining the value of goods and...

This study develops the structure and closure of an econometric regime-switching model within a partial equilibrium framework that has the ability to generate reliable estimates and projections of endogenous variables under market-switching regimes. Models used in policy evaluation usually...

The objective of this study is to conduct a comprehensive analysis on the competitiveness of the agribusiness sector in South Africa. Neither a clear definition of competitiveness nor a comprehensive framework for analysing competitiveness has been developed for agriculture in South Africa....

A few vertically integrated retail chains increasingly dominate South Africas agro-food supply chain. M+M Planet Retail (2004) placed the market concentration among retailers to be as high as 96% for the top four chains leaving only 4% to the small competitors. The onset of this trend has led to...