Browsing by Subject "Agriculture"
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The new alliance on food security and nutrition: what are the implications for Africa’s youth?
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016)Young people are a growing proportion of Africa’s population and most live in poverty in rural areas. Despite urbanisation, in absolute numbers the rural youth are growing and agricultural development needs to prioritise ... -
The next great Trek? South African commercial farmers move north
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2012)This paper analyses the shifting role of South African farmers, agribusiness andcapital elsewhere in the Southern African region and the rest of the continent. Itexplores recent trends in this expansion, and investigates ... -
Nitrogen fertilization increases the growth and nutritional quality of the forage legume, Calobota sericea – A preliminary investigation
(Elsevier, 2023)Calobota sericea is being evaluated as a forage for drought stressed areas. The nutritional quality of C. sericea from native populations are poor, and this is believed to be due to poor soil fertility. Therefore, a ... -
Nodulation, leaf harvesting intensity and interval of the black-eyed bean (BEB) (Vigna unguiculata L. Walpers) cowpea type at the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe
(Academic Journals, 2012)A glasshouse pot experiment was carried out at the University of Zimbabwe, Crop Science Department in 2006 to 2007 rainy season to determine the effect of leaf harvesting intensity and interval on cowpea biological nitrogen ... -
Nutritional value of cooked offal derived from free-range rams reared in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2013)Nutritional value of Dorper (n=10) and Merino (n=10) by-products were evaluated. Proximate composition differed between organs and breeds with Merino heart (68.9 g/100 g), spleen (77.2 g/100 g) and testicles (83.7 g/100 ... -
Oranges and labourers: The potential for job creation in the citrus sub-sector of South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018-06)Rural employment is a key policy issue in South Africa, yet the National Development Plan (NDP) of 2012 suggests that one million jobs can be created in agricultural production, processing and related activities. The plan ... -
Plantation, outgrower and medium-scale commercial farming in Ghana: which model provides better prospects for local development?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape and Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016)African governments are making important policy choices in their quest to modernise agriculture, with some promoting largescale farming on plantations while others promote small- or medium-scale commercial farming. -
Post-translational cleavage of recombinantly expressed nitrilase from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 yields a stable, active helical form
(Wiley, 2007)Nitrilases convert nitriles to the corresponding carboxylic acids and ammonia. The nitrilase from Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 is known to be inactive as a dimer but to become active on oligomerization. The recombinant enzyme ... -
The potential of agriculture and land reform to generate jobs
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)Extremely high levels of unemployment contribute to poverty and inequality, and are one of South Africa’s most intractable problems. Can the agricultural sector help to address the problem? And how can land reform be ... -
Principles and practice for successful farmland redistribution in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)The current debate on land reform in South Africa is unnecessarily polarised between those who believe that the market has failed to deliver, and those who believe that the bureaucracy has failed to deliver. Instead, we ... -
Progress in the remote sensing of veld fire occurrence and detection: A review
(Wiley, 2023)Our research provides a detailed overview of the progress in remotely sensed fire monitoring techniques, which have been developed and employed for fire occurrence and detection. Our overview is provided from a literature ... -
Proteomic analysis of grape berry cell cultures reveals that developmentally regulated ripening related processes can be studied using cultured cells
(Public Library of Science, 2011)This work describes a proteomics profiling method, optimized and applied to berry cell suspensions to evaluate organ-specific cultures as a platform to study grape berry ripening. Variations in berry ripening within a ... -
Reconciling living customary law and democratic decentralisation to ensure women’s land rights security
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)The recent Constitutional Court judgment rendering the Communal Land Rights Act (CLARA) unconstitutional (Tongoane and Others v Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs and Others) must not be allowed to throw dec ... -
Responding to the crisis in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of nutrition
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)In the chapter dealing with education and health, the report of the influential Commission for Africa prioritises basic health systems, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. In contrast, nutrition is given less than half ... -
A Review of Value Added in Nigeria's Pre and Post-SAP Agricultural Sector: Background and Issues
(International Foundation for Research and Development (IFRD), 2013)In spite of the growing importance of oil, Nigeria has remained essentially an agrarian economy, with agriculture still significantly contributing to its Gross Domestic Product. However, the potentials of the agricultural ... -
Revisiting unresolved questions: land, food and agriculture
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2011)This article explores three articles from the perspective of 2011. They are Makhosazane Gcabashe and Alan Mabin’s ‘Preparing to negotiate the land question’ (Transformation 11), Tom Bennett’s ‘Human rights and the African ... -
Rights and representation support justice across aquatic food systems
(Nature Research, 2022)Injustices are prevalent in food systems, where the accumulation of vast wealth is possible for a few, yet one in ten people remain hungry. Here, for 194 countries we combine aquatic food production, distribution and ... -
Role of Indigenous and local knowledge in seasonal forecasts and climate adaptation: A case study of smallholder farmers in Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
(Elsevier, 2023)Accessible, reliable and diverse sources of climate information are needed to inform climate change adaptation at all levels of society, particularly for vulnerable sectors such as smallholder farming. Globally, many ... -
Seed germination and early seedling growth responses to drought stress in annual Medicago L. And Trifolium L. Forages
(MDPI, 2022)Climate change in the Mediterranean-like regions of South Africa has resulted in increased rainfall variability, a delayed start to the wet winter season, and increased occurrences of out-ofseason summer rainfall events. ... -
Should subsistence agriculture be supported as a strategy to address rural food insecurity?
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2009)At first glance South Africa’s black farming sector appears to contribute rather minimally to overall agricultural output in South Africa. However, despite the complexity involved in this sector and the often marginal ...