South African agricultural production and investment patterns.

Liebenberg, Frikkie; Fuglie, Keith O.; Wang, S. L.; Ball, V. Eldon

doi:10.1079/9781845939212.0293

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“…In SSA, population dynamics are characterized by high fertility rates and rural-urban migration (Buhaug & Urdal, 2013), driven by population growth in resource constrained rural areas rather than urban agglomeration pull (Holden & Otsuka, 2014). Local cropland losses in South Africa coincides with expansion of horticulture (Liebenberg & Pardey, 2010). Urbanization has also been an important driver of biodiversity losses.…”

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Assessing human and environmental pressures of global land-use change 2000–2010

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Non-technical summaryGlobal land is turning into an increasingly scarce resource. We here present a comprehensive assessment of co-occuring land-use change from 2000 until 2010, compiling existing spatially explicit data sources for different land uses, and building on a rich literature addressing specific land-use changes in all world regions. This review systematically categorizes patterns of land use, including regional urbanization and agricultural expansion but also globally telecoupled land-use change for all world regions. Managing land-use change patterns across the globe requires global governance.

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Assessing human and environmental pressures of global land-use change 2000–2010

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“…The third of these sets of medium-term cycles covers the 20th century. The most important events during this time include the long post-Great Depression expansion in the South African economy, which was accompanied by as long an expansion in agricultural production (see also Kirsten, Edwards, and Vink, 2009; Liebenberg, 2012) and in wine production specifically. In the case of wine, the most important intervention was the establishment in 1918 of the Ko-operatieve Wijnbouwersvereeniging van Zuid-Afrika Beperkt (KWV, or Cooperative Wine Farmers’ Association of South Africa, Limited), and then the granting of statutory powers to it in 1930 (Vink, Williams, and Kirsten, 2004).…”

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Wine Cycles in South Africa

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In this article, medium-run cycles in wine production in South Africa are extracted and related to similar cycles in real GDP per capita during the same period. In addition to removing noise in the historical data, smoothing out short-run fluctuations also eliminates the short-run impact on agricultural production due to idiosyncratic shocks such as weather events, wars, and vine diseases. By isolating the medium-run cycles, it is possible to verify the timing and duration of each cycle, matching it with the historical narrative. In this regard, a 300-year annual data series of South African wine production explains the evolution not only of one of the largest agricultural sectors, but of the South African economy in general. (JEL Classifications: C10, N57, Q10).

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“…We follow Fan et al (2008) and assume that the elasticity of AgGDP with respect to poverty reduction is 1.02 for South Africa (Eckert et al 1997). 14 In addition we use a population growth rate of 2.6% per year (UN 2010) for Kenya, and a poverty rate of 22% (World Bank 2010) and a population growth rate of 1.34% (Liebenberg and Pardey 2010) for South Africa.…”

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Ex Ante Welfare Analysis of Technological Change: The Case of Nitrogen Efficient Maize for African Soils

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2015

Canadian J Agri Economics

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This study evaluates the potential impacts of the Improved Maize for African Soils (IMAS) project in two countries of Africa: Kenya and South Africa. The IMAS varieties offer significant yield advantages for regions where low or no fertilizer is used. The analysis uses spatial production data and household data to account for the level of fertilizer use in different agroecological zones of the country as well as different types of maize producing households. Results suggest that IMAS will deliver a total of US$586 million in gross benefits with US$136 million and US$100 million of benefits to producers in Kenya and South Africa, respectively, and an additional US$112 million to consumers in Kenya and US$238 million to consumers in South Africa. These benefits could help more than 1 million people escape poverty in the two countries by 2025. Household level results suggest that small households in areas with relatively low levels of fertilizer use stand to gain significant benefits.

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South African agricultural production and investment patterns.

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Assessing human and environmental pressures of global land-use change 2000–2010

Assessing human and environmental pressures of global land-use change 2000–2010

Wine Cycles in South Africa

Ex Ante Welfare Analysis of Technological Change: The Case of Nitrogen Efficient Maize for African Soils

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