Agrekon

2012 - 2026

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

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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 pp. 353-369

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

Does the use of multiple agricultural technologies affect household welfare? Evidence from Northern Ghana pp. 370-387

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

Selling at the farmgate? Role of liquidity constraints and implications for agricultural productivity pp. 388-407

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 pp. 408-423

Ebenezer Donkor and Jiri Hejkrlik

Smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for access to agricultural market information in Tanzania pp. 424-444

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 pp. 445-459

Wellington Jogo, Temesgen Bocher and Frederick Grant

Farm- and community-level factors underlying the profitability of fertiliser usage for Ethiopian smallholder farmers pp. 460-479

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

Analysis of the Kenyan economy: an input-output approach pp. 480-495

Sofía Jiménez, Alfredo Mainar and Emanuele Ferrari

Volume 60, issue 3, 2021

Productive efficiency and farm size in East Africa pp. 209-226

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

Changing income portfolios and household welfare in rural Uganda pp. 227-242

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? pp. 243-252

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 pp. 253-263

Clement Kyei and Margaret Mabugu

Structure and entry barriers to access groundnut markets for intermediary traders in central and northern Malawi pp. 264-279

Admire Katunga, Edilegnaw Zegeye and Gerald Ortmann

Analysis of intra-region market integration and spatial price transmission in groundnut markets in Malawi pp. 280-296

Moses Chitete, Wisdom Mgomezulu, Mercy Bwanaisa and Joseph Dzanja

The poverty impacts of improved soybean technologies in Malawi pp. 297-316

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 pp. 317-334

Odile Mackett

Adoption of ox-drawn minimum tillage ripping by smallholder farmers in Zambia pp. 335-351

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

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 pp. 91-107

Siphe Zantsi, Gabriele Mack and Nick Vink

Land redistribution in South Africa’s land reform policy: a better way to select beneficiaries pp. 108-127

Siphe Zantsi and Jan C. Greyling

District-level agricultural total factor productivity for the Karoo, South Africa: 1952–2002 pp. 128-144

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 pp. 145-156

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 pp. 157-175

Yohana James Mgale, Yan Yunxian and Provident Dimoso

Foreign direct investment into agriculture: does it crowd-out domestic investment? pp. 176-191

Justice Djokoto

Welfare effects of small-scale farmers' participation in apple and mango value chains in Ethiopia pp. 192-208

Mengistie Mossie, Alemseged Gerezgiher, Zemen Ayalew and Zerihun Nigussie

Volume 60, issue 1, 2021

Introduction to volume 60 of Agrekon pp. 1-6

Johann Kirsten

Reflections on two terms as editor of Agrekon pp. 7-9

Nick Vink

Impacts of interlocked contractual arrangements on dairy farmers’ welfare in Zambia: a robust Bayesian instrumental variable analysis pp. 10-30

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

Price attributes of Döhne Merino wool in South Africa pp. 31-42

A. Ferreira, W. A. Lombard, Yonas Bahta and A. C. Geyer

Speed of adoption of intensive agricultural practices in Rwanda: A duration analysis pp. 43-56

Jules Ngango and Seungjee Hong

Determinants of livestock keepers’ primary animal health care practices pp. 57-79

Zimbini Mdlulwa, Eric Mathebula and Cynthia Ngwane

How a government panel on land reform in South Africa is stuck in old ways pp. 80-84

Thorvald Gran

Reply: how a government panel on land reform in South Africa is stuck in old ways pp. 85-87

Wandile Sihlobo

In memoriam: Abdul Salam Mohammad Karaan (1968–2021) pp. 88-89

Nick Vink, Wandile Sihlobo and Johann Kirsten

Volume 59, issue 4, 2020

Efficiency of a mixed farming system in a marginal winter rainfall area of the Overberg, South Africa, with implications for thinking about sustainability pp. 387-400

Beatrice Conradie and Amelia Genis

An econometric estimation of gross margin volatility: a case of ox production in Namibia pp. 401-411

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

Price transmission in (de)regulated agricultural markets pp. 412-425

Jakub Olipra

Gendered analysis of the demand for poultry feed in Kenya pp. 426-439

John Njenga Macharia, Gracious Malton Diiro, John Rono Busienei, Kimpei Munei, Hippolyte D. Affognon, Sunday Ekesi, 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 pp. 440-458

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 pp. 269-286

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 pp. 287-302

Daniel Belay

Determinants of individual social capital in dairy cooperatives in West Shoa, Ethiopia pp. 303-320

Daniel Belay

Adoption and ex-post impact of alternative teff production technologies: micro-level evidence from Ethiopia pp. 321-336

Etsehiwot Semreab Tiruneh and Solomon Wassie

Effects of input subsidies on cropland allocation and diversification in Botswana’s subsistence economy pp. 337-353

Tebogo Seleka and David Mmopelwa

Household assets and food security in and around medium-sized towns: some insights from Morogoro and Iringa, Tanzania pp. 354-365

Ubaldus John Tumaini

Do oil prices and exchange rates account for agricultural commodity market spillovers? Evidence from the Diebold and Yilmaz Index pp. 366-385

Mehmet Balcilar and Festus 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 pp. 129-143

Marlene Louw and Melissa Van der Merwe

Analysis of price transmission in the beef value chain using a calculated retail carcass price pp. 144-155

Abiodun Ogundeji and Frikkie Maré

Eye-tracking consumers’ awareness of beef brands pp. 156-168

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

Typology of contract farming arrangements: a transaction cost perspective pp. 169-187

Innocent Mugwagwa, Jos Bijman and Jacques Trienekens

(Fairtrade) certification: consequences of being a niche market pp. 188-201

Katharina Bissinger and Daniel Leufkens

Factors determining smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for a metal silo in Zimbabwe pp. 202-217

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 pp. 218-234

Megan Davenport and Rashid Hassan

Postharvest losses at the farm level and its economy-wide costs: the case of the maize sector in Mozambique pp. 235-253

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 pp. 254-267

Joseph P. Musara and Lovemore Musemwa

Volume 59, issue 1, 2020

Correction pp. iii-iii

The Editors

Improving livelihoods of smallholder farmers through region specific strategies: a case study of South African sheep production pp. 1-15

Yong Sebastian Nyam, Nicolette Matthews and Yonas Bahta

Impact of smallholder farmers’ welfare through participation in on-farm regional projects in East Africa pp. 16-29

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 pp. 30-45

Ivo Wustro and Beatrice Conradie

Examining coffee export performance in Eastern and Southern African countries: do bilateral trade relations matter? pp. 46-64

Aimable Nsabimana and Wondmagegn Tirkaso

Are there periodically collapsing bubble behaviours in the global coffee market? pp. 65-77

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 pp. 78-92

Primrose Madende and Bennie Grové

Do bottom-up and independent agricultural cooperatives really perform better? Insights from a technical efficiency analysis in Ethiopia pp. 93-109

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

Food self-sufficiency and GM regulation under conflicting interests: the case of GM maize in South Africa pp. 110-128

Qianqian Shao, Dusan Drabik, Marnus Gouse and Justus Wesseler