By Dr. Sifiso Ntombela1, sifiso@namc.co.za Context Between the 18 and 22 March 2019, actors from the public, private and civil society gathered in Accra, a city characterized by tropical savanna climate, to take stock of actions implemented by African states in fulfilling their respective Paris Agreement commitments. Thanks to the sponsorship from FANRPAN2, I was […]

One of its kind in terms of science in practice.

This commentary argues that, unlike in most successful countries elsewhere both in the developed and developing world, public agricultural economics research capacity in post-apartheid South Africa is not optimally organized – and therefore not properly geared – to enable relevant and good quality economic research output.  Instead one finds scattered islands of capacity within government […]