MEASURING THE AGRIBUSINESS DECISION ENVIRONMENT: CONSTRUCTING AN AGRIBUSINESS CONFIDENCE INDEX FOR SOUTH AFRICA

Contracting arrangements in agribusiness procurement practices in South Africa

This paper presents an overview of contracting arrangements in agribusiness procurement practices in South Africa. The objective of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the structures and issues of raw commodity procurement in South African agribusiness supply chains. The results suggest that a wide range of institutions are employed to procure raw commodities for the South ...

Agribusiness 2.0

Die Anwendung von Web 2.0 Tools innerhalb von Unternehmen ermöglicht diesen neue Formen der Kollaboration sowie Austausch von Informationen und Wissen. Flache Hierarchien und Formen der Selbstorganisation verhelfen zu einer neuen Unternehmenskultur, die für Werte wie Transparenz steht und den Umgang mit offener Kritik fördert. Diese neue Entwicklung der Unternehmen wird als Enterprise 2.0 bezei...

Agribusiness Review

Australia’s publicly owned and managed National Parks estate has been largely quarantined from the micro-economic reforms that have been instituted across most other sectors of the economy. The public good, natural monopoly and equity arguments that are used to justify a continued dominance by the public sector in the production and provision of Park benefits are not watertight. Opening up the ...

Agribusiness for Africa ’ s Prosperity Country Case Studies

Australasian Agribusiness Review - Vol

Historically research about diffusion has largely been focused on rates of adoption and explanations for them. This is a matter of secondary importance, arguably, to the question of the likely total level of adoption. In the case of agricultural innovations total adoption can be expected to be strongly correlated to the value attributed to the innovation by those producers for whom it is releva...