Agrekon

2012 - 2025

Current editor(s): A. Jooste, National Agricultural Marketing Council

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Volume 64, issue 1, 2025

On the origins of time use: women and the plough pp. 1-11

Fernando Gonzalez

The role and position of informal street vendors in the Onderberg district banana value chain pp. 12-31

Nomfundo Kakaza and Micheline Juliana Naude

Identifying clusters of innovation barriers in farming enterprises: a K-modes clustering approach pp. 32-49

Yasser Buchana

Economic feasibility and impacts of replacing tobacco with alternative crops in smallholder cropping systems: evidence from Uganda pp. 50-71

Irene Nakamatte, John Ilukor and Jackline Bonabana

Adapting to extreme weather conditions in a developing country: an economywide policy assessment from Malawi pp. 72-85

Henry Kankwamba

In memoriam: Wilhelm Eckart Kassier (1933–2025) pp. 86-89

Nick Vink and Johan van Zyl

Resilience and food security in a food systems context pp. 90-92

Eliaza Mkuna and Abiodun A. Ogundeji

Volume 63, issue 4, 2024

Obligations of agricultural economists in South Africa's policy formulation pp. 205-212

Sifiso Mboneni Ntombela

Increasing agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa during times of volatile prices and a changing climate pp. 213-222

Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

What do urban consumers want? Findings from a discrete choice experiment on the preference for locally produced staple food in Central Africa: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) pp. 223-239

Sarah K. Thontwa, Joachim De Weerdt and Steven Van Passel

The impact of tenure security and agricultural diversity on food security pp. 240-256

Amanuel Hadera, Tewodros Tadesse, Bereket Gebremedhin, Girmay Tesfay and Woldegebrial Zewold

The dynamics of the South African lucerne hay industry pp. 257-276

Hermias N. van Niekerk

Competitiveness analysis of the South African avocado industry pp. 277-302

Sibonelo Zwane and Stuart R. D. Ferrer

Investigating factors affecting trade flows in pork and poultry global markets using gravity models pp. 303-318

Anthony N. Rezitis, Leonidas Zangelidis and Spyridon Karytsas

Comparative analysis of futures contract cross-hedging effectiveness for soybean: models and insights pp. 319-336

M. C. Erasmus and J. M. Geyser

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 pp. 113-132

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 pp. 133-147

Awugten Gebrehana, Abule Mehare and Saleamlak Fentaw

Preferences for index-based pasture insurance: a choice experiment in Limpopo Province, South Africa pp. 148-165

Bernard Manganyi, Damien Jourdain and Selma Karuaihe

Determinants of crop abandonment by smallholder maize farmers in Zambia pp. 166-180

Nixon S. Chekenya, Nanii Yenibehit and Canicio Dzingirai

Profiling food waste in the retail sector of developing economies pp. 181-190

S. Hobson and W. J. de Lange

Smallholders’ willingness to pay for ZM-GrowTM foliar fertilizer in Dangla District of Northwestern Ethiopia pp. 191-203

Tadele Anagaw Zewdu, Solomon Bizuayehu Wassie and Ermias Tesfaye Teferi

Volume 63, issue 1-2, 2024

How do we secure a future for the youth in South African agriculture? pp. 1-15

Melissa Van der Merwe

The role of agricultural economists in supporting resilience in the Namibian livestock sector* pp. 16-29

H. J. Sartorius von Bach

Productivity and profitability of small-scale aquaculture in Malawi pp. 30-50

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 pp. 51-64

Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi

Household resilience and mitigating strategies to conflicts and shocks: evidence from household data in Uganda and Malawi pp. 65-81

James Muriuki, Darren Hudson and Syed Fuad

GlobalGAP compliance costs in Ghana’s small-scale pineapple farming sector pp. 82-96

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 pp. 97-112

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 pp. 197-214

Kandas Cloete, Anke Möhring and Siphe Zantsi

Proposing a farm assessment toolkit: evaluating a South African land reform case study pp. 215-227

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? pp. 228-240

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 pp. 241-257

Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi

The single-serve wine option in South African restaurants: product involvement, risk perception and information-related behavioural effects pp. 258-278

Johan Bruwer, Martin Kidd and Nick Vink

The Covid pandemic, cultivation and livelihoods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape pp. 279-291

Klara Fischer, Nomahlubi Mnukwa and Amanda Bengtsson

Estimating oligopsonistic market power in Uganda’s rice industry pp. 292-308

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

Agricultural productivity, land use intensification and rural household welfare: evidence from Ethiopia pp. 309-327

Abebayehu Girma Geffersa

Data note: Spatializing South African agricultural censuses, 1918–2017 pp. 328-336

Senait D. Senay, Jan C. Greyling, Philip Pardey and Helene Verhoef

Volume 62, issue 2, 2023

Agricultural economics: a discipline in crisis? pp. 117-132

Melissa Van der Merwe

Economic and environmental comparison of conventional and conservation agriculture in South African wheat production pp. 133-151

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 pp. 152-163

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 pp. 164-177

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 pp. 178-193

Girma Gezimu Gebre, Yuichiro Amekawa and Aneteneh Ashebir

Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use pp. 194-196

Felician Andrew Kitole

Volume 62, issue 1, 2023

The measurement of agricultural productivity in Africa pp. 1-4

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? pp. 5-18

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

Technological differences in South African sheep production: a stochastic meta-frontier analysis pp. 19-30

Nicolette Matthews, Beatrice Conradie and Jenifer Piesse

Taking stock of gender gaps in crop production technology adoption and technical efficiency in Ghana pp. 31-48

Abigail Ampomah Adaku, Francis Tsiboe and Joseph Clottey

Farm size and productivity: smallholder dairy production in Eswatini pp. 49-60

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 pp. 61-79

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

Productivity growth and the role of mechanisation in African agriculture pp. 80-97

Oliver Kirui, Lukas Kornher and Maksud Bekchanov

Wheat productivity in the Cape Colony in 1825: evidence from newly transcribed tax censuses pp. 98-115

Johan Fourie and Jan Greyling