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Botswana Agrifood Value Chain Project Beef Value Chain Study.
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Ministry of Agriculture, Botswana, 2013)
Knowledge and utilization of job enrichment techniques among district agricultural officers in Botswana
(Academic Journals, 2010)
In Botswana, agricultural extension services delivery is faced with problems of inadequate skilled manpower to carry out research and disseminate information to farmers and existing staff are not motivated to perform at ...
Re-aligning curricula and mode of delivery to impart relevant knowledge and skills to improve agricultural productivity
(RUFORUM, 2018)
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the discussion on re-aligning curricula and mode of delivery to impart relevant knowledge and skills to improve agricultural productivity as stipulated in the Africa Agenda ...
Factors underlying communal beef cattle marketing decisions in Botswana: The role of public and private transfers
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 2015-11)
This article examines factors underlying communal beef cattle marketing at a household level in Botswana, with emphasis placed on the role of public and private transfers. Results show that public and private transfers ...
Profitability of Small Scale Vegetable Production in Southern District, Botswana
(Macrothink Institute, 2017-01-10)
Government determination to eradicate extreme poverty and food insecurity among Batswana through small scale vegetable production program appears not to transform their economic stance. Rural households that are part of ...
Prospects and challenges of seed sector privatisation
(Academic Journals, 2011-09-26)
African countries embarked on privatisation of their seed industries in the 1980s as part of the structural adjustment programmes. Botswana however, chose not to privatise its seed production services at that time. This ...
Determinants of market participation and the institutional constraints: Case study of Kweneng West, Botswana
(Academic Journals, 2016-09)
For smallholder livestock farmers to benefit from their livestock, they need to fully participate in the market. This study identifies the determinants of market participation by smallholder livestock farmers in Botswana. ...
A metafronteir analysis of determinants of technical efficiency in beef farm types: an application to Botswana.
(AgEcon Search, 2015)
The study used a stochastic metafrontier model followed by a Tobit regression model to estimate technical efficiency and meta-technology ratios and assess factors influencing efficiency of a suite of beef farm types in ...
Measurement of competitiveness in smallholder livestock systems and emerging policy advocacy: An application to Botswana.
(Elsevier, 2014-12)
Farm level cross sectional data of 556 randomly selected livestock producers were used to investigate the competitiveness of smallholder beef farmers in Botswana. The results show the presence of inefficiency, with about ...
Public transfers and subsistence producer disincentives in Botswana
(Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis, 2016-08-10)
This paper investigates the disincentive effects of public transfers on subsistence producers in Botswana. Comparative statics analyses indicate that public transfers would not affect farm production when profit and utility ...