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Flower Valley se ondervinding in die blombedryf, 2006 tot 2008

Author: Conradie, Beatrice ; Lloyd, Frieda ; Bailey, Roger ; Richardson, Lesley Date: 2010 Flower Valley Conservation Trust</em> is 'n gemeenskapsorganisasie wat hom tot die volhoubare oes van veldblomme beywer in die hoop dat dit tot die bewaring van fynbosveld sal lei. Fynbos is die wereld se kleinste, mees diverse en moontlik ... Read more c b n d
Jackal Narratives and Predator Control in the Karoo, South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2013 This paper discusses the historical roots of, and scientific evidence for, rival 'jackal narratives' about the problems posed by black-backed jackals (canis mesomelas) for sheep farmers in the Karoo, South Africa. The jackal recolonized farms ... Read more c b n d
Karoo farmers living and working experiences in protracted drought conditions: a case study

Author: Reynolds, Megann Date: 2021 In the South African context, a geographical region prone to the occurrence of frequent and intense periods of drought, the emergence of climate conditions reaching new extremes raises concerns of adaptability to sustain living and work ... Read more
The Koup Fencing Project : community-led job creation in the Karoo

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli ; Conradie, Beatrice ; Conradie, Inge Date: 17 Sep 2014 This paper discusses a community-led fencing project in the Koup, an arid predominantly sheep farming district in the South African Karoo. It highlights the role of supportive government officials in sourcing funding and the importance of ... Read more c b
Labour, wages and minimum wage compliance in the Breërivier valley six months after the introduction of minimum wages

Author: Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2003 In August 2003, six months after statutory minimum wages came into effect in South African agriculture, wine farmers in two Western Cape districts were surveyed to establish the initial employment impacts of the sectoral determination. The ... Read more c b n d
Laingsburg Bestuursopname, Rondtes 1 en 2: Produksie en Winsgewendheid

Author: Conradie, Beatrice Date: Aug 2015 Ons beskik oor redelik betroubare bestuursinligting vir 48 produsente wat saam op ongeveer 50% van die landbougrond in Laingsburg se distrik boer. Die groep se gemiddelde speenpersentasie was net ‘n raps kort van 80% oor die afgelope twee ... Read more c b
Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach

Author: Dube, Rebecca Date: 2021 This paper measures and explains efficiency of firms in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector. The paper uses a panel of 166 firms from 6 subsectors of the manufacturing sector in the financial year 2014. The Data envelopment analysis program is ... Read more
Nature-based tourism in the Agulhas Plain: A vehicle for integrated biodiversity conservation and sustainable economic development

Author: Corbeira, Maria Jose Garcia ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2010 With scarce funding and resources being prioritised to meet human development needs in South Africa, it is critical that biodiversity conservation benefits be packaged in a way that emphasises their economic contribution to such developmental ... Read more c b n d
Productivity benchmarking of free-range sheep operations : technical efficiency, correlates of productivity and dominant technology variants for Laingsburg, South Africa

Author: Conradie, Beatrice ; Piesse, Jenifer Date: 05 Aug 2014 Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to benchmark extensive sheep operations in Laingsburg in the Central Karoo, South Africa, with data from the 2012 production season. An input oriented variable returns to scale frontier identified ... Read more c b
Promoting Urban Agriculture for Development: Suggestions for Designing the 'Ideal' Social Enterprise Box Scheme in Cape Town

Author: Thom, Amy ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2012 Urban agriculture is now a component of many countries' socioeconomic development agendas. For urban agriculture to make a meaningful contribution to development, particularly in South Africa where chronic poverty persists, it must present ... Read more c b n d
Structural adjustments to the farm labour force, 1994-2011 : a Mincerian exploration of returns to education and experience

Author: Pillay, Kavisha Date: 2015 Agriculture is a vital source of employment and income for many unskilled workers in South Africa. However, due to the decline in the sector's contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (as a result of the reduction in agricultural production ... Read more
A study of group dynamics in the South African dairy industry: A sequential Malmquist approach

Author: van Niekerk, Hugh ; Conradie, Beatrice ; Piesse, Jenifer Date: Aug 2015 This study presents a sequential Malmquist index for twenty members of an Eastern Cape dairy study group for the period 2010 to 2013. On average these farms were at efficiency levels of 95% and more during this period. The group’s mean technical ... Read more c b
Survey of beekeeping in South Africa

Author: Conradie, Beatrice ; Nortjé, Bronwyn Date: 2008 The Marketing of Agricultural Products Act (47 of 1996) provides for a range of statutory measures given that a Section 7 committee of the NAMC (National Agricultural Marketing Council) can be convinced that these measures would improve market ... Read more c b n d
Surveying Commercial & Subsistence Agriculture

Author: Conradie, Beatrice Date: 06 Jun 2017 At the last count agriculture employed twice as many people as the mining sector and about four fifths of the number employed in the manufacturing sector. Together with domestic work, farm work is often seen as employment of last resort, a ... Read more
The Economics of Tobacco Production and Feasible Alternatives in Uganda

Author: Namome, Catherine Date: 2018 Tobacco control policies are credited with contributing to the well-being of society. But for tobacco producers, such polices can present pitfalls, especially in rural contexts where households are dependent on tobacco leaf production. This ... Read more
The effect of drought and rising temperatures on total factor productivity in pasture-based dairy farming in the Eastern Cape

Author: Renner, Andrea Date: 2021 A region's climate is determined by its long-term rainfall, temperature, wind and evaporation profile, and weather is the short-term variations around these long-term expected values. This study uses weather to investigate the potential future ... Read more
Total factor productivity of urban agriculture on the urban periphery of Cape Town

Author: Dyer, Martin ; Mills, Richard ; Conradie, Beatrice ; Piesse, Jenifer Date: 2015 This paper investigates the efficiency relationships between inputs and outputs of urban micro-farms in two of Cape Town’s townships: Nyanga and Khayelitsha. The inputs in this study were land, labour, seeds and seedlings, compost and farmer ... Read more c b
Understanding the black-backed jackal

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli ; Conradie, Beatrice ; Drouilly, Marine ; O'Riain, M Justin Date: Mar 2017 This paper reviews what we know about black-backed jackal ecology, drawing implications for managing human-wildlife conflict with this species. We review the research literature on the black-backed jackals in the context of other African ... Read more
Urban Agriculture, Social Enterprise and Box Schemes in Cape Town

Author: Thom, Amy ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2012 The social benefits of urban agriculture, such as improving food security, developing a sense of community and promoting ecological conservation, are well documented in the literature and in practice. However, in order to contribute to ... Read more c b n d
Wages and wage elasticities for wine and table grapes in South Africa

Author: Conradie, Beatrice Date: 28 May 2015 A survey of 190 wine and table grape farmers in the Western Cape puts the average wage for farm labour at R928 per month in 2003 and R1123 per month in 2004. Output per worker has doubled since 1983. On farms with grape harvesters, labour is ... Read more