Discussion papers
- south africa | Agriculture Will availing credit incentives to Zimbabwean farmers trigger a maize output response? This paper evaluates the impact of credit availability on communal and commercial sector maize output in Zimbabwe. This is important given the increased use of concessionary credit for agriculture as a policy strategy to increase agricultural output and food security, in response to the disruption caused by controversial land reform. Musuna, S. and E. Muchapondwa (2008). "Will availing credit incentives to Zimbabwean farmers trigger a maize output response?" ERSA Working Paper No. 100 (October)
- south africa | Agriculture Policy design Estimation of the aggregate agricultural supply response in Zimbabwe: The ARDL approach to cointegration This paper uses relatively recent time series techniques on data spanning over different pricing regimes to estimate the aggregate agricultural supply response to price and non-price factors in Zimbabwe. The ARDL approach to cointegration employed here gives consistent estimates of supply response in the presence of regressor endogeneity and also permits the estimation of distinct estimates of both long-run and short-run elasticities when variables are not integrated of the same order. Muchapondwa, E. (2008). "Estimation of the aggregate agricultural supply response in Zimbabwe: The ARDL approach to cointegration" ERSA Working Paper No. 90 (August
- eeu sweden south africa | Agriculture Can the restrictive harvest period policy conserve mopane worms in Southern Africa? A bio-economic modelling approach Imbrasia Belina also known as the mopane worm, like other edible insects and caterpillars, is a vital source of protein to Southern African countries. The worms live and graze on mopane trees, which occupy agricultural land. With increasing commercialization of the worm, the management of the worm, which was hitherto organized as a common property resource, has degraded to a near open access. Akpalu, W., Muchapondwa, E. and P. Zikhali (2007). "Can the restrictive harvest period policy conserve mopane worms in Southern Africa? A bio-economic modeling approach" ERSA Working Paper 65 (October)
- china | Agriculture Forestry Incomplete Property Rights, Exposure to Markets and the Provision of Environmental Services in China This paper uses data from a 2003 rural survey to examine the determinants of household provision of environmental services under China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP), the largest payment for environmental services program in the developing world. Bennett, M., A. Mehta, and J. Xu. 2008. "Incomplete Property Rights, Exposure to Markets and the Provision of Ecosystem Services in China". Working paper, Environmental Economics Program in China.
