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Volume 63, issue 3, 2024

Consumers’ purchasing behaviour and quality preferences for pork sold in the informal street markets of the Cape Metropole, South Africa

Siphosethu Magqupu, Obert C. Chikwanha, Chenaimoyo L. F. Katiyatiya, Phillip E. Strydom and Cletos Mapiye

Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for improved irrigation water use: the case of Menz Mama Midir Woreda in North Shewa Zone of Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

Awugten Gebrehana, Abule Mehare and Saleamlak Fentaw

Preferences for index-based pasture insurance: a choice experiment in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Bernard Manganyi, Damien Jourdain and Selma Karuaihe

Determinants of crop abandonment by smallholder maize farmers in Zambia

Nixon S. Chekenya, Nanii Yenibehit and Canicio Dzingirai

Profiling food waste in the retail sector of developing economies

S. Hobson and W. J. de Lange

Smallholders’ willingness to pay for ZM-GrowTM foliar fertilizer in Dangla District of Northwestern Ethiopia

Tadele Anagaw Zewdu, Solomon Bizuayehu Wassie and Ermias Tesfaye Teferi

Volume 63, issue 01-2, 2024

How do we secure a future for the youth in South African agriculture?

Melissa Van der Merwe

The role of agricultural economists in supporting resilience in the Namibian livestock sector

H. J. Sartorius von Bach

Productivity and profitability of small-scale aquaculture in Malawi

Maggie G. Munthali, Lemekezani Chilora, Ayala Wineman, Bonface Nankwenya, Levison Chiwaula and Milu Muyanga

Examining the impact of human capital and innovation on farm productivity in the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, South Africa

Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi

Household resilience and mitigating strategies to conflicts and shocks: evidence from household data in Uganda and Malawi

James Muriuki, Darren Hudson and Syed Fuad

GlobalGAP compliance costs in Ghana’s small-scale pineapple farming sector

Prince B. Annor, Simeon Kaitibie and Michael C. Lyne

The competitiveness of South African table grape exports in the European markets: Threats from Peru and Chile

Jana-Mart van der Merwe, Nick Vink and Kandas Cloete

Volume 62, issue 3-4, 2023

Modelling the exiting of South African producers from commercial agricultural production – an agent-based model

Kandas Cloete, Anke Möhring and Siphe Zantsi

Proposing a farm assessment toolkit: evaluating a South African land reform case study

Aart-Jan Verschoor, Colleta Gandidzanwa, Terence Newby, Anneliza Collett and Sonja Venter

Is persistent “loadshedding” pulling the plug on agriculture in the Western Cape, South Africa?

Kandas Cloete, Louw Pienaar and Melissa Van der Merwe

Examining the determinants of agricultural innovation activities: a case study of emerging sugarcane farmers in South Africa

Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi

The single-serve wine option in South African restaurants: product involvement, risk perception and information-related behavioural effects

Johan Bruwer, Martin Kidd and Nick Vink

The Covid pandemic, cultivation and livelihoods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape

Klara Fischer, Nomahlubi Mnukwa and Amanda Bengtsson

Estimating oligopsonistic market power in Uganda’s rice industry

Edgar E. Twine, Stella E. Adur-Okello and Gaudiose Mujawamariya

Agricultural productivity, land use intensification and rural household welfare: evidence from Ethiopia

Abebayehu Girma Geffersa

Volume 62, issue 2, 2023

Agricultural economics: a discipline in crisis?

Melissa Van der Merwe

Economic and environmental comparison of conventional and conservation agriculture in South African wheat production

Willy Mulimbi, Lawton Nalley, Johann Strauss and Kristiina Ala-Kokko

Drivers of rural households’ food insecurity in Ethiopia: a comprehensive approach of calorie intake and food consumption score

Million Sileshi, Stefan Sieber, Teshome Lejissa and Daniel W. Ndyetabula

Assessing the crop productivity and household welfare effects of adopting certified seeds of improved cassava varieties in Uganda

Beine P. Ahimbisibwe, John F. Morton, Shiferaw Feleke, Arega D. Alene, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Kate Wellard, Eric Mungatana, Anton Bua, Solomon Asfaw and Victor Manyong

Can farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies ensure their food security? Evidence from Ethiopia

Girma Gezimu Gebre, Yuichiro Amekawa and Aneteneh Ashebir

Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use

Felician Andrew Kitole

Volume 62, issue 01, 2023

The measurement of agricultural productivity in Africa

Jenifer Piesse and Nick Vink

Total factor productivity growth in livestock production in Botswana: what is the role of scale and mix efficiency change in beef production?

Omphile Temoso, Ng’ombe, John N., Sirak Bahta and David Hadley

Technological differences in South African sheep production: a stochastic meta-frontier analysis

Nicolette Matthews, Beatrice Conradie and Jenifer Piesse

Taking stock of gender gaps in crop production technology adoption and technical efficiency in Ghana

Abigail Ampomah Adakum, Francis Tsiboe and Joseph Clottey

Farm size and productivity: smallholder dairy production in Eswatini

Jan C. Greyling, Bandile Banele Mdluli and Beatrice Conradie

Access to mutual labour support in agriculture: Implications for maize productivity and efficiency of farmers in northern Ghana

Mensah Tawiah Cobbinah, Gideon Danso-Abbeam and Abiodun A. Ogundeji

Productivity growth and the role of mechanisation in African agriculture

Oliver Kirui, Lukas Kornher and Maksud Bekchanov

Wheat productivity in the Cape Colony in 1825: evidence from newly transcribed tax censuses

Johan Fourie and Jan Greyling

Volume 61, issue 4, 2022

Do youth farmers benefit from participating in contract farming? Evidence from French beans youth farmers in Arusha, Tanzania

Mwita Erick Marwa and Julius Manda

Determinants of smallholder farmers’ livelihood trajectories. Evidence from rural Malawi

Mirriam Matita, Ephraim Wadonda Chirwa, Stevier Kaiyatsa, Jacob Mazalale, Masautso Chimombo, Loveness Msofi Mgalamadzi and Blessings Chinsinga

Potential improvement in the performance of dairy farms in South Africa

David Beca

The effect of agricultural technology transfer on Zimbabwe’s economic development: a dynamic global trade analysis project approach

Rutendo H. Jonga, Huang Delin, Courage Masona and Christopher Belford

Volume 61, issue 3, 2022

The COVID-19 effects on agricultural commodity markets

Mehmet Balcilar, Kamil Sertoglu and Busra Agan

Socioeconomic inequalities in household resilience capacity in the context of COVID-19 in the fisheries sector in Malawi

Gowokani Chijere Chirwa and Levison Chiwaula

Perceived changes in food security, finances and revenue of rural and urban households during COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria

Olubunmi Bamiwuye, Olaide Akintunde, Lateef Jimoh and Khadijat Olanrewaju

Agricultural trade liberalisation, agricultural total factor productivity growth and food security in Africa

Regret Sunge and Nicholas Ngepah

Rainfall variability and alternative technology adoption: evidence from Ethiopia

Dambala Gelo

Factors affecting adoption of technical, organisational and institutional dairy innovations in selected milksheds in Kenya

Edith Wairimu, John Mburu, Asaah Ndambi and Charles Gachuiri

Food loss and waste in maize in Mozambique and its economic impacts: a system dynamics assessment approach

Meizal Popat, Oscar Cacho, Garry Griffith and Stuart Mounter

operations in South Africa

Nixon S. Chekenya and Laurine Chikoko

Volume 61, issue 2, 2021

Private extension delivers productivity growth in pasture-based dairy farming in the Eastern Cape, 2012–2018

Beatrice Conradie, Craig Galloway and Andrea Renner

Producer prices, carcass classification and consumers’ willingness to pay for different sheep meat grades: an experimental auction approach

Carina Troost and Johann Kirsten

Investigating the motivations driving meat analogue purchase among middle-income consumers in Mbombela, South Africa

C. Z. Tsvakirai and N. M. Zulu

Are SACU countries self-sufficient in cereals? A dynamic panel analysis

H. J. Sartorius von Bach and K. M. Kalundu

Do changes in maize prices and input prices affect smallholder farmers’ soil fertility management decisions? panel survey evidence from Kenya

David Olson, Nicole M. Mason, Lilian Kirimi and Joyce Makau

Crop mix portfolio response to climate risks: evidence from smallholder farmers in Kisumu County, Kenya

Hezbon Akelo Awiti, Eric Obedy Gido and Gideon Aiko Obare

Adoption and impact of improved wheat varieties on productivity and welfare among smallholder farmers in the Arsi Highland of Ethiopia

Bedilu Demissie Zeleke, Adem Kedir Geleto, Sisay Asefa and Hussien H. Komicha

Social protection policy and agricultural labour outcome in West Africa

Romanus Osabohien, Matthew Oluwatoyin and Hajra Maqsood

Volume 61, issue 01, 2022

Special collection of articles on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on South African agriculture

Johann Kirsten

A sector-wide review of the COVID-19 impact on the South African agricultural sector during 2020–21

Ferdinand Meyer, Johann Kirsten, Tracy Davids, Marion Delport, Hester Vermeulen, Wandile Sihlobo and Lucia Anelich

Hotspots of vulnerability and disruption in food value chains during COVID-19 in South Africa: industry- and firm-level “pivoting” in response

Ferdinand Meyer, Thomas Reardon, Tracy Davids, Melissa Van der Merwe, Daniel Jordaan and Marion Delport

Covid-19 and the South African wine industry

Tracy Davids, Nick Vink and Kandas Cloete

The impact of Covid-19 on black farmers in South Africa

Marc Wegerif

Can digital solutions transform agri-food systems in Africa?

Edward Mabaya and Jaron Porciello

Identifying possible misspecification in South African soybean oil futures contracts

Andre Van der Vyver, Ulonka Barnard and Jean-Pierre Nordier

Strategic perspectives on quitting or remaining in commercial agriculture in South Africa and why it matters

Kandas Cloete, Jan Greyling and Marion Delport