The State of Food and Agriculture

When trying to clarify what I mean by ""state of statistics"", I find myself building up from the following basic facts. (i) Anyone who counts or measures is collecting statistics. Anyone who then tries to extract information from these counts or measures, is trying to analyse statistics and interpret the results.

Statistics in South Africa

This news article reports on the events occurring and the views taken at the 1995 UN Conference on Women held in Beijing China and the Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Forum. The setting in China for this decennially occurring conference was appropriate for the discussion of womens rights. Despite the selective coverage of the conference by Chinese official reports word would trickle out in whispers to Chinese women about some new ideas. Chinese visa restrictions on participants of the NGO Forum forced many women to devise ingenious ways of gaining entrance to the meetings. The alliance between the Holy See and Islam disciples threatened to undermine basic goals of conference to open up access to contraception and to change property rights. The conference chair diplomatically found justification for praise of unpopular views despite the disputes among a majority of delegates. The aim of the conference was to obtain a common understanding of some basic rights and not 100% agreement. Womens economic contributions have not been recognized in gross domestic product calculations. The World Bank has reported that about $13 billion is unaccounted for income and unwaged income of which about $8.5 billion is due to womens productivity. Women expressed the desire for recognition of their economic contribution. Since the last womens conference held in Nairobi in 1985 there has been an increase in world poverty. Uganda expends more on servicing its debt than on health and education. There was general agreement that gender equity was a goal but there was less consensus on how to achieve it.

Gross domestic product.

S. Kuznets. Modern Economic Growth. Rate, Structure, and Spread

世界農産物市場の現状 = The state of agricultural commodity markets

The Role of the Agricultural Sector in the South African

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The Role of the Agricultural Sector in the South African Economy

Using a new compilation of agricultural data, we find that South Africa increased its total maize production from 328,000 tons in 1904 to 1.68 million tons in 1935, and 12.2 million tons ce...

Measuring Maize in South Africa: The Shifting Structure of Production During the Twentieth Century, 1904–2015

CITATION: Zantsi, S., Greyling, J. C. & Vink, N. 2019. Towards a common understanding of 'emerging farmer' in a South African context using data from a survey of three district municipalities in the Eastern Cape Province. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension, 47(2):81-93. doi:10.17159/2413-3221/2019/v47n2a505

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Towards a common understanding of ‘emerging farmer’ in a South African context using data from a survey of three district municipalities in the Eastern Cape Province

South Africa’s agricultural sector has undergone substantial policy reform since the dawn of democracy in 1994. Now, twenty years later, it is an opportune time to look back at this period to review key successes and failures. This article revisits South Africa’s context and policy at the start of this period, the reforms that followed, and evaluates the transformational effect (or lack thereof) on the sector. For this purpose, the article pulls from both qualitative sources and descriptive statistics to provide both a historical context and current perspective. The analysis shows that redistributive land reform and smallholder support programs have achieved limited success in transforming the sector towards greater inclusivity. Trade and marketing policy reform, however, has succeeded in transforming the sector towards greater productivity and international competitiveness. This has increased the market and climate resilience of the sector, but the limited inclusivity of historically disadvantaged persons poses significant challenges.

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Jan C. Greyling

Papers

The Role of the Agricultural Sector in the South African Economy

Measuring Maize in South Africa: The Shifting Structure of Production During the Twentieth Century, 1904–2015

Towards a common understanding of ‘emerging farmer’ in a South African context using data from a survey of three district municipalities in the Eastern Cape Province

South Africa's Agricultural Sector Twenty Years After Democracy (1994 to 2013)

The contribution of the agro-industrial complex to employment in South Africa.