--Annual AEASA Conference Presentations--

First Contributed Paper Session

• Agribusiness | Agricultural Trade | Land Reform and BEE  | Agricultural exports  |
  Modeling Techniques In Agricultural Economics | Asfaha and Jooste

Agribusiness

• Contracting arrangements in agribusiness procurement practices in South Africa (Kirsten, Vermeulen & Sartorius)
• Integrating small-scale vegetable producers into mainstream agri-food chains
• Profit Efficiency in Small and Medium-Scale Maize Milling Enterprises (SMSMMEs) in South Africa
• The potential impact of the Doha Development Agenda on the South African economy (Nydoho, Vink & Punt)

Agricultural Trade

• Agrarian reform and smallholder agriculture in South Africa (Cousins)
• Fast Tracking Agrarian and Land Reform in South Africa (Ruth Hall)
• Technical Constraints To Smallholder Agriculture (Pote & Obi)

Mokoena, Jooste & Alemu

• Agricultural exports response to trade policy reform and implementation in South Africa (Mokoena, Jooste & Alemu )
• Cochrane-Orcutt Procedure
• Description of Explanatory Variables.
• Estimation Formula For Trade Potentials.
• The Hausman test.
• Models.
• Results for agricultural exports from SA to the EU countries.
• Results for agricultural exports from SA to the SADC countries.
• Results for agricultural exports from SA to the World
• Selection of the Estimator suitable for Agricultural Exports .
• The Wald test is distributed like F-statistic.

Land Reform and BEE

• Applying Systems To Manage Black Economic Empowerment In The Sa Wine Industry
• Investigation into the data sources available to measure the success of land reform in the Free State Province
• Government Support And Emerging Livestock Farmers: The Case Of Heilbron
• Potential effects of agricultural land tax on farm resource use & output supply response in South Africa

Modeling Techniques In Agricultural Economics

• Appropriate Aggregation of Productivity Indices.
• Households’ Welfare Analysis of The Impact of Global Change on Water Resources in South Africa
• Econometric Estimation of Armington Elasticities for Selected Agricultural Products in South Africa

Asfaha and Jooste

• Coefficients of the estimated models.
• Unit root and co integration results.doc
• Forecasting Performance of Selected Econometric Models