2025 AWARD SUBMISSIONS

AEASA invites you to submit Articles for the Best Publication in a Professional Journal or Best Published Book, other than Agrekon.The 2025 Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA) will be hosted in Gauteng, South Africa, from 29 September to 01 October 2025. The programme of providing awards to the best performers has been with the Association for a long time and is regarded as a good way to encourage members to participate in the events of the Association and contribute to the profession.

Eligibility for the Award is as follows:

• The Award shall be made to a member or members of AEASA. A member may receive the award for joint authorship in the case where the co-author(s) is/are not members.
• The award shall be made for the best publication that was formally published during the 12 months prior to the Conference.
• The award shall be announced/made at the Annual Conference Dinner of AEASA. 

The adjudication of articles is to be done as objectively as possible. The Committee will act at its own discretion, but will rely on an adjudication system that includes the following:

• Significance of research: To be considered significant, the content must relate to one of the following: the economics of agriculture, environmental and natural resource economics, rural sociology, governance and public choice, and community and rural development. This includes contributions in the field of business, extension, research and teaching of agricultural and rural economics. Preference is given to those articles dealing with Southern Africa.

• Contribution to the discipline: The content should contain new developments in research and methods of analysis; apply existing methods to new situations; test new hypotheses or theories, new frameworks of analyses and application; and/or present new facts or data.

• Quality of conclusions: Conclusions should be sound and useful.
• Readability: The article must be readable and well-integrated.
• Topicality: The article should be relevant towards the issues of the day.
• Impact factor of journal: The committee shall, where possible, determine the impact factors of journals and/or books.

Following the explication above, can you please send through the Articles for the Best Publication in a Professional Journal or Best Published Book, other than Agrekon by 30April 2025, to RanchoM@arc.agric.za and manana.mamabolo@gmail.com