Agrekon

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Volume 60, issue 4, 2021

The financial burden of African Horse Sickness: a case of the European Union trade ban on South Africa’s horse industry

Zimbini Mdlulwa, Mampe Masemola, Baratang A. Lubisi and Petronella Chaminuka

Does the use of multiple agricultural technologies affect household welfare? Evidence from Northern Ghana

Wencong Lu, Kwabena Nyarko Addai and Ng’ombe, John N.

Selling at the farmgate? Role of liquidity constraints and implications for agricultural productivity

Josiah M. Ateka, Perez Ayieko Onono-Okelo and Martin Etyang

Does commitment to cooperatives affect the economic benefits of smallholder farmers? Evidence from rice cooperatives in the Western province of Zambia

Ebenezer Donkor and Jiri Hejkrlik

Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for access to agricultural market information in Tanzania

Mawazo Mwita Magesa and Noah Nasson Mkasanga

Factors influencing farmers’ dis-adoption and retention decisions for biofortified crops: the case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Mozambique

Wellington Jogo, Temesgen Bocher and Frederick Grant

Farm and community-level factors underlying the profitability of fertilizer usage for Ethiopian smallholder farmers

B. T. Assefa, P. Reidsma, J. Chamberlin and M. K. van Ittersum

Analysis of the Kenyan economy: an input-output approach

Sofía Jiménez, Alfredo Mainar and Emanuele Ferrari

Volume 60, issue 3, 2021

Productive efficiency and farm size in East Africa

Jacques C. Julien, Boris E. Bravo-Ureta and Nicholas E. Rada

Changing income portfolios and household welfare in rural Uganda

Moses Kakungulu, Moses Isabirye, Kevin Teopista Akoyi, Kaat Van Hoyweghen, Liesbet Vranken and Miet Maertens

What factors influence smallholder farmers’ decision to select a milk marketing channel in Zambia?

Tulumbe Cheelo and Melissa Van der Merwe

Welfare impacts of introducing water pollution tax in the Olifants river basin in South Africa: A revisited analysis using a top-down micro-accounting approach

Clement Kweku Kyei and Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu

Structure and entry barriers to access groundnut markets for intermediary traders in central and northern Malawi

Admire Katunga, Edilegnaw Wale Zegeye and Gerald Ortmann

Analysis of intra-region market integration and spatial price transmission in groundnut markets in Malawi

Moses Chitete, Wisdom Mgomezulu, Mercy Bwanaisa and Joseph Dzanja

The poverty impacts of improved soybean technologies in Malawi

Adane Hirpa Tufa, Arega D. Alene, Julius Manda, Shiferaw Feleke, Tesfamicheal Wossen, M. G. Akinwale, David Chikoye and Victor Manyong

Female farm holding in Botswana's agriculture industry

Odile Mackett

Adoption of ox-drawn minimum tillage ripping by smallholder farmers in Zambia

Isabel C. Sakala, Thomson H. Kalinda, Chewe Nkonde and William J. Burkem

Volume 60, issue 2, 2021

Towards a viable farm size – determining a viable household income for emerging farmers in South Africa's Land Redistribution Programme: an income aspiration approach

Siphe Zantsi, Gabriele Mack and Nick Vink

Land redistribution in South Africa’s land reform policy: a better way to select beneficiaries

Siphe Zantsi and Jan C. Greyling

District-level agricultural total factor productivity for the Karoo, South Africa: 1952–2002

Beatrice Conradie, Amelia Genis, Jan Greyling and Jenifer Piesse

Agronomic and socio-economic assessment of the introduction of a rice-based mixed cropping system to the Cuvelai seasonal wetland system in northern Namibia

Yoshihiro Hirooka, Tadayoshi Masuda, Yoshinori Watanabe, Yasuhiro Izumi, Hiroyuki Inai, Simon Awala and Morio Iijima

Cointegration and spatial price transmission among rice markets in Tanzania: implications for price stabilisation policies

Yohana James Mgale, Yan Yunxian and Provident Dimoso

Foreign direct investment into agriculture: does it crowd-out domestic investment?

Justice Djokoto

Welfare effects of small-scale farmers' participation in apple and mango value chains in Ethiopia

Mengistie Mossie, Alemseged Gerezgiher, Zemen Ayalew and Zerihun Nigussie

Volume 60, issue 01, 2021

Introduction to volume 60 of Agrekon

Johann Kirsten

Reflections on two terms as editor of Agrekon

Nick Vink

Impacts of interlocked contractual arrangements on dairy farmers’ welfare in Zambia: a robust Bayesian instrumental variable analysis

Rebecca N. Kiwanuka-Lubinda, Ng’ombe, John N. and Charles Machethe

Price attributes of Döhne Merino wool in South Africa

A. Ferreira, W. A. Lombard, Y. T. Bahta and A. C. Geyer

Speed of adoption of intensive agricultural practices in Rwanda: A duration analysis

Jules Ngango and Seungjee Hong

Determinants of livestock keepers’ primary animal health care practices

Zimbini Mdlulwa, Eric Mathebula and Cynthia Ngwane

How a government panel on land reform in South Africa is stuck in old ways

Thorvald Gran

Reply: how a government panel on land reform in South Africa is stuck in old ways

Wandile Sihlobo

In memoriam: Abdul Salam Mohammad Karaan (1968–2021)

Nick Vink, Wandile Sihlobo and Johann Kirsten

Volume 59, issue 4, 2021

Efficiency of a mixed farming system in a marginal winter rainfall area of the Overberg, South Africa, with implications for thinking about sustainability

Beatrice Conradie and Amelia Genis

An econometric estimation of gross margin volatility: a case of ox production in Namibia

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

Price transmission in (de)regulated agricultural markets

Jakub Olipra

Gendered analysis of the demand for poultry feed in Kenya

John Njenga Macharia, Gracious Malton Diiro, John Rono Busienei, Kimpei Munei, Hippolyte D. Affognon, Sunday Ekesim, Beatrice Muriithi, Dorothy Nakimbugwe, Chrysantus Mbi Tanga and Komi K. M. Fiaboe

Production and hidden hunger impacts of sustainable agricultural practices: evidence from rural households in Africa

Abdul-Hanan Abdallah, Awal Abdul-Rahaman and Gazali Issahaku

Volume 59, issue 3, 2020

Measuring the financial efficiency of agricultural cooperatives in South Africa: an application of the Simar–Wilson methodology

C. L. Yobe, S. R. D. Ferrer and M. Mudhara

The effect of trust on farmers’ milk market participation in dairy cooperatives in West Shoa, Ethiopia

Daniel Belay

Determinants of individual social capital in dairy cooperatives in West Shoa, Ethiopia

Daniel Belay

Adoption and ex-post impact of alternative teff production technologies: micro-level evidence from Ethiopia

Etsehiwot Semreab Tiruneh and Solomon Bizuayehu Wassie

Effects of input subsidies on cropland allocation and diversification in Botswana’s subsistence economy

Tebogo Seleka and David Mmopelwa

Household assets and food security in and around medium-sized towns: some insights from Morogoro and Iringa, Tanzania

Ubaldus John Tumaini

Do oil prices and exchange rates account for agricultural commodity market spillovers? Evidence from the Diebold and Yilmaz Index

Mehmet Balcilar and Festus Victor Bekun

Volume 59, issue 2, 2020

Asymmetry in food safety information – the case of the 2018 Listeriosis outbreak and low-income, urban consumers in Gauteng, South Africa

Marlene Louw and Melissa van der Merwe

Analysis of price transmission in the beef value chain using a calculated retail carcass price

Abiodun Ogundeji and Frikkie Maré

Eye-tracking consumers’ awareness of beef brands

W. A. Lombard, J. H. Van Zyl and T. R. Beelders

Typology of contract farming arrangements: a transaction cost perspective

Innocent Mugwagwa, Jos Bijman and Jacques Trienekens

(Fairtrade) certification: consequences of being a niche market

Katharina Bissinger and Daniel Leufkens

Factors determining smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for a metal silo in Zimbabwe

Teresa Chuma, Maxwell Mudhara and Jones Govereh

Application of exploratory factor analysis to address the challenge of measuring social capital in a rural communal setting in South Africa

Megan Davenport and Rashid Hassan

Postharvest losses at the farm level and its economy-wide costs: the case of the maize sector in Mozambique

Meizal Popat, Garry Griffith, Stuart Mounter and Oscar Cacho

Impacts of improved sorghum varieties intensification on household welfare in the mid-Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe

Joseph P. Musara and Lovemore Musemwa

Volume 59, issue 01, 2019

Improving livelihoods of smallholder farmers through region specific strategies: a case study of South African sheep production

Yong Sebastian Nyam, Nicolette Matthews and Yonas Tesfamariam Bahta

Impact of smallholder farmers’ welfare through participation in on-farm regional projects in East Africa

Enock Warinda, Dickson M. Nyariki, Stephen Wambua and Reuben Muasya

How stable are farmers’ risk perceptions? A follow-up study of one community in the Karoo

Ivo Wustro and Beatrice Conradie

Examining coffee export performance in Eastern and Southern African countries: do bilateral trade relations matter?

Aimable Nsabimana and Wondmagegn Tafesse Tirkaso

Are there periodically collapsing bubble behaviours in the global coffee market?

Kai-Hua Wang, Chi-Wei Su, Ran Tao and Lin-Na Hao

Risk efficiency of optimal water allocation within a single- and multi-stage decision-making framework

Primrose Madende and Bennie Grové

Do bottom-up and independent agricultural cooperatives really perform better? Insights from a technical efficiency analysis in Ethiopia

Tafesse W. Gezahegn, Steven Van Passel, Tekeste Berhanu, D’haese, Marijke and Miet Maertens

Food self-sufficiency and GM regulation under conflicting interests: the case of GM maize in South Africa

Qianqian Shao, Dusan Drabik, Marnus Gouse and Justus Wesseler

Correction

Y.S. Nyam, N. Matthews and Y.T. Bahta