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CVM3 Regional Workshop Presentation: Southern Africa

Global temperatures have already increased by 1.1°C relative to pre...

Brent Cloete

Workshop Presentation

Climate Vulnerability of Southern Africa

Occasional Paper 03 Global temperatures have already increased by 1...

Brent Cloete

Occasional Paper

Dr Channing Arndt on Building back fairer from the Covid-19 Pandemic in South Africa

Post-pandemic, South Africa’s economy finds itself in a constrained...

Margaux Giannaros, Channing Arndt

Podcast

Part 4: Building back for a sustainable future

The discussion is based on two papers: , by Channing Arndt, Robert ...

Witness Simbanegavi, Matthew Simmonds, IFPRI, GIZ, ERSA, Channing Arndt

Dialogue

Dr Matthew Stern on understanding South Africa’s trade policy and performance

An issue often overlooked in many discussions is that of exports an...

Matthew Stern

Podcast

Part 3: International perspectives and South Africa’s trade policy

The discussion is based on two papers: and Understanding South Afr...

Sherman Robinson, Montford Mlachila, Matthew Simmonds, Marianne Matthee, Matthew Stern

Dialogue

Dr Rossouw van Jaarsveld on developing a forex network model: how to highlight risk tra...

Have you ever wondered how sensitive the South African Rand is to s...

Rossouw van Jaarsveld

Podcast

The South African - United States Sovereign Bond Spread and its Association with Macroe...

The yield spread of South African to United States 10 year governme...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Working Paper

Consumer Preferences for Genetically Modified Organisms in Cape Town: A Choice Experime...

This paper reports a study done on Cape Town consumers, with the ai...

Herbert Ntuli, Benjamin Dovey

Working Paper

Prof. Johanne Fedderke on the differential impact of the Coronavirus as of end of March...

Professor Johannes W. Fedderke, the Director of ERSA speaks to our ...

Johannes W. Fedderke

Podcast

Farm diversification and climate change: implications for food security in Northern Nam...

Limited non-farm opportunities in the rural areas of the developing...

Martine Visser, Chalmers Mulwa

Policy Brief

Risk Preferences and the Impact of Credit and Insurance on Farm Technology Uptake

We use a series of credit and insurance simulation games to test th...

Martine Visser, Kerri Brick, Hafsah Jumare

Working Paper

Risk Preferences and the Poverty Trap: A Look at Technology Uptake amongst Smallholder ...

A number of studies suggest the risk preference of low income indiv...

Martine Visser, Kerri Brick, Hafsah Jumare

Working Paper

The Competitive Status of the South African Wheat Industry

This article investigates the competitiveness of the South African ...

Philippus. C. Cloete, Johannes D. van der Merwe, Herman D. van Schalkwyk, Ewert P. J. Kleynhans

Working Paper

Can social grants promote small-scale farming to improve food security?

Public expenditure on South Africa’s cash transfer (or social grant...

Louw Pienaar, Dieter von Fintel

Policy Brief

Climate change and Agriculture: What is the Role of Wildlife in adaptation in South Afr...

Climate change poses a serious problem to agriculture sector especi...

Jackson Otieno, Edwin Muchapondwa

Policy Brief

Alternative Strategies for Public Debt Issuance in Zimbabwe: Is there a Trade off?

Introduction As part of managing a debt portfolio, debt managers fa...

Pierre Le Roux, Nebson Mupunga

Policy Brief

Agriculture and adaptation to climate change: The role of wildlife ranching in South Af...

In this paper, we explored the role of wildlife in adaptation to cl...

Jackson Otieno, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Simulation Analysis of Alternative Strategies for Public Debt Issuance in Zimbabwe: Is ...

This paper discusses the simulation analysis of alternative public ...

Pierre Le Roux, Nebson Mupunga

Working Paper

Gender Differences in Climate Change Risk, Food Security and Adaptation: A Study of Rur...

Climate and weather variability in sub-Saharan Africa disproportion...

M. Collinson, Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, L. Hunter, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Vulnerability to climatic variability: An assessment of drought prevalence on water res...

The volatile changes in climate are increasingly becoming a threat ...

Nicholas Kilimani

Working Paper

Investigating the Sensitivity of Household Food Security to Agriculture-related Shocks ...

Resource-poor rural South Africa is characterised by high human den...

Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Timing a Hedge Decision: The Development of a Composite Technical Indicator for White M...

South African white maize is considered to be significantly more vo...

Chris van Heerden, Frans Dreyer, Susari Geldenhuys

Working Paper

Profiling Sectoral Risks of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa

Despite Africa’s exceptional FDI performance during the past decade...

Zahné Coetzee, Henri Bezuidenhout, Carike Claassen

Working Paper

Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification D...

To the extent that diversifying income portfolio is used as a strat...

Mare Sarr, Mintewab Bezabih

Working Paper

Analysis of the plastic-bag Levy in South Africa

Policy Paper 18 Policy makers in many countries have perceived plas...

Anthony Leiman, Martine Visser, Johane Dikgang

Policy Paper

Adaptation to climate change by smallholder farmers in Tanzania

In Sub-Saharan Africa, climate change is set to hit the agricultura...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Coretha Komba

Working Paper

A theory of colonial goverance

This paper considers conditions of optimality in a co-optive strate...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Julius A. Agbor, Nicola Viegi

Working Paper

Can the restrictive harvest period policy conserve mopane worms in Southern Africa? A b...

Imbrasia Belina also known as the mopane worm, like other edible in...

Wisdom Akpalu, Precious Zikhali, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

A Theoretically Defensible Measure of Risk: Using Financial Market Data from a Middle I...

While economic theory assumes that risk is of central importance in...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Neryvia Pillay Bell

Working Paper

Deriving a theoretically defensible measure of risk

According to economic theory, risk is a central consideration in fi...

Johannes W. Fedderke, Neryvia Pillay Bell

Policy Brief

Market Regulation and Agricultural development

Policy Paper (Interest) 10 Those analysts who favour deregulation i...

Policy Paper