Empirical studies have shown that while global per capita freshwater availability is declining, competition among production sectors for the withdrawal of this resource is rapidly increasing. This situation is exacerbated by the rapid population growth especially in developing countries,...

The primary marketing of South African mohair has been the topic of much discussion and it has become a contentious issue since producer prices became unusually unstable, producer returns increasingly uncertain, and production consequently began declining. This dissertation has aimed to...

South African agriculture experienced rapid deregulation during the 1990s as the one channel marketing boards were dismantled. For the grains industry this meant the rapid development of a derivatives market (SAFEX). Derivative markets are surely the most intriguing and complex financial markets...

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...

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...

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...

The South African agricultural sector has experienced a long history of state intervention. In the past decade, the marketing of agricultural products has been transformed from a highly regulated to an essentially free dispensation. South African agriculture is now exposed to an uncertain...

The purpose of the study is to investigate the competitiveness of the South Africandeciduous fruit canning industry in the global canned fruit market. The study was done inthe Western Cape Province, the province where the deciduous fruit is produced andcanned in South Africa. Both local and...

Agricultural input expenditures have not been widely incorporated in most partialequilibrium models. Thus, investigating the effect of economic policies and otherexogenous factors on the agricultural sector will produce only a partial analysis, since thesimultaneous impact of these factors on...