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Agricultural change and farmworker living standards in post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Le Roux, Leonard Date: 2019 Commercial agriculture in South Africa has been subject to accelerated regulatory and economic change in the time since the country’s democratization. This dissertation focusses on some of the interactions of these changes with the prospects ... Read more
Are hunting clubs the solution to small stock depredation?The cases of Ceres,1979 and 1980

Author: Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2012 In 1979 and 1980 predators were under control on sheep farms in the Ceres Karoo. At the time, a subsidised hunting club assisted landowners with predator control measures. A farmlevel analysis of data from the Ceres hunting club’s logbooks ... Read more
Assessing demand for green electricity products amongst upper-middle income Western Cape households a contingent valuation study

Author: Harrison, Christopher G Date: 2013 The study presented in this paper examines the demand for green electricity products amongst upper-middle income Western Cape households. A social cost-benefit analysis to inform electricity investment planning requires the environmental ... Read more
Benchmarking and productivity analysis in South Africa's automotive industry

Author: Moshikaro, Lesego Date: 2020 Despite being the biggest beneficiary of industrial policy, South Africa's automotive industry has struggled to remain competitive relative to its peers. This is partly a result of increasing global competition, structural shifts and changing ... Read more
A brief history of predators, sheep farmers and government in the Western Cape, South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli ; Conradie, Beatrice ; Drouilly, Marine ; O'Riain, M. Justin Date: Mar 2017 This paper provides a brief history of the conflict between South African sheep farmers and predators (and we touch also on the debate between diverse stakeholders over how best to respond to that conflict). We focus in particular on black-backed ... Read more
A comparison of the performance under field conditions of woolled and mutton sheep flocks in a low rainfall region of South Africa

Author: Conradie, Beatrice ; Landman, Abraham Date: Dec 2013 This paper investigated the relative financial performance of woolled and mutton sheep and the determinants of woolled sheep ownership for 34 full-time sheep farms in Laingsburg South Africa, where rainfall is only 128 millimetres per annum. ... Read more c b n d
Competition Policy and Privatisation in the South African Water Industry

Author: Conradie, Beatrice ; Goldin, Jacqui ; Leiman, Anthony ; Standish, Barry ; Visser, Martine Date: Mar 2001 The aim of this working paper is to investigate the optimal regulatory routes from a competition and public interest point of view for the South African water industry. The working paper presents the basic conditions of the water sector by ... Read more c b n a
Conservation begins after breakfast: the relative importance of opportunity cost and identity in shaping private landholder participation in conservation

Author: Conradie, Beatrice ; Treurnicht, Martina ; Esler, Karen ; Gaertner, Mirijam Date: 2013 The conservation opportunity literature increasingly emphasises opportunity cost as an important determinant of willingness to engage in conservation on private land. We investigated the explanatory power of a group of opportunity cost variables ... Read more
A cost benefit analysis of a technology bundle aimed at improving the resilience of urban households in Rocklands, Mitchell's Plain

Author: Odendaal, Rehana ; Morar, Jeeten ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: Oct 2013 This paper documents and evaluates the early progress with a project which aims to increase the resilience of poor urban households with a complete technology package consisting of a permaculture food garden and multiple renewable-energy ... Read more c b
A cost benefit analysis of a technology bundle aimed at improving the resilience of urban households in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain

Author: Odendaal, Rehana ; Morar, Jeeten ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2013 This paper documents and evaluates the early progress with a project which aims to increase the resilience of poor urban households with a complete technology package consisting of a permaculture food garden and multiple renewable-energy ... Read more c b n d
A critical review of South Africa's carbon tax policy paper: recommendations for the implementation of an offset mechanism

Author: Newham, Melissa ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2013 The South African government has emphasised the need for 'developing country' solutions to climate change that simultaneously pursue GHG reductions and socioeconomic development. To encourage the transition to a low-carbon economy the National ... Read more c b n d
A critical review of South Africa’s Carbon Tax Policy Paper: recommendations for the implementation of an Offset Mechanism

Author: Newham, Melissa ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: Dec 2013 The South African government has emphasised the need for ‘developing country’ solutions to climate change that simultaneously pursue GHG reductions and socioeconomic development. To encourage the transition to a low-carbon economy the National ... Read more c b
A critical review of South Africa’s carbon tax policy paper: recommendations for the implementation of an offset mechanism

Author: Newham, Melissa ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2013 The South African government has emphasised the need for ‘developing country’ solutions to climate change that simultaneously pursue GHG reductions and socioeconomic development. To encourage the transition to a low-carbon economy the National ... Read more c b n d
Determinants of electricity demand for newly electrified low-income African households

Author: Louw, Kate ; Howells, Mark ; Dekenah, Marcus ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2008 Access to clean, affordable and appropriate energy is an important enabler of development. Energy allows households to meet their most basic subsistence needs; it is a central feature of all the millennium development goals (MDGs) and, while ... Read more
An economic framework for energy transitions

Author: Howells, Mark ; Louw, Kate ; Conradie, Beatrice ; Käck, Emila ; Jonsson, Sandra Date: 19 Feb 2016 There is special interest in the patterns of fuel use among low-income rural communities and their transition from one form of energy use pattern to another. Understanding energy transitions will help in developing energy policies for the ... Read more
The Effect of Predator Culling on Livestock Losses: Caracal Control in Cooper Hunting Club, 1976 - 1981

Author: Bailey, Alex ; Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2013 This paper investigates the effectiveness of predator culling as a means of reducing livestock losses using hunting club data for Cooper (outside Mossel Bay) for the period 1976 to 1981. Results showed that caracal (Caracal caracal) culling ... Read more c b n d
The effect of predator culling on livestock losses: Ceres, South Africa, 1979 - 1987

Author: Conradie, Beatrice ; Piesse, Jenifer Date: 2013 Caracals (Caracal caracal) and leopards (Panthera pardus) are perennial problems for sheep farmers on the southern fringe of the arid Karoo. In the past, farmers responded to the conflict with blanket culling of predators, a strategy which ... Read more c b n d
An estimate of the recreational value of the Agulhas Plain, South Africa, with special reference to the value of plant biodiversity

Author: Conradie, Beatrice ; Garcia, Maria Date: 2013 The Agulhas Plain is a remarkable recreational site which combines the attraction of a pristine marine environment with exceptional plant biodiversity, rural tranquility and the novelty of being at the southernmost tip of Africa. The resource ... Read more c b
Explaining declining agricultural total factor productivity in the Karoo districts of the Western Cape, 1952 to 2002

Author: Conradie, Beatrice ; Winter, Kevin ; Piesse, Jenifer ; Thirtle, Colin ; Vink, Nick Date: 2013 Conradie et al. (2009a and 2009b) identified the Central Karoo as the worst performing area in the Western Cape, but left the reasons for the region's declining total factor productivity (TFP) unexplained. The current paper uses a combination ... Read more
Farmers' views of landscape initiatives: The case of the Agulhas Plain, CFR

Author: Conradie, Beatrice Date: 2010 The Cape Action for People and the Environment (CAPE) produced an?integrated development vision according to which conservation would deliver?benefits for local communities. As pilot landscape initiative, Agulhas?Biodiversity Initiative (ABI) ... Read more c b n d

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