by Wandile Sihlobo | Mar 29, 2019 | General Comments
March 2019 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) provided further evidence that the world will have fairly large maize, soybean, and rice supplies in the 2018/19 season. Meanwhile, wheat production...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Mar 27, 2019 | General Comments
Today I participated at the Potato Industry Forum organised by Potatoes South Africa. I was asked to make a few remarks about South Africa’s agricultural policy, with a particular focus on land reform. After my speech, Dr André Jooste, CEO of Potato South Africa...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Mar 26, 2019 | General Comments
With everything going on the agricultural and land policy front, I really don’t want to spend much time on grains and oilseeds production data updates. But I am a bit concerned that the picture painted by the figures released by South Africa’s Crop Estimates Committee...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Mar 23, 2019 | General Comments
In the recent issue of Agrekon, which is an agricultural economics academic journal, some of the most renowned agricultural economics professors, namely Johann Kirsten, Philip Pardey, and Colin Thirtle wrote a moving memorial tribute of the late Dr Frikkie Liebenberg,...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Mar 22, 2019 | General Comments
There is broad consensus that part of the reason why SA’s land reform programme has fallen short of expectation has been due, to some extent, to a lack of well-timed, co-ordinated and effective measures to support new farmers. Access to tailored seasonal finance, fair...
by Wandile Sihlobo | Mar 16, 2019 | General Comments
THE WEEKEND ESSAY: By Professor Johann Kirsten and Wandile Sihlobo[i] Behind some of the policy proposals and discussions on land redistribution in South Africa is a persistent notion that the country should establish ‘small-scale farms’ so that there could be more...
