Author:Nahman, Anton; De Lange, Willem JDate:Nov 2013In a previous paper (Nahman et al., 2012), the authors estimated the costs of household food waste in South Africa, based on the market value of the wasted food, as well as the costs of disposal to landfill. In this paper, we extend the ...Read more
Author:Nahman, Anton; De Lange, Willem JDate:Sep 2013We estimate the costs of food waste throughout the entire food value chain, from agricultural production through to consumption at the household level, in economic terms. First, food waste at each stage of the value chain was quantified in ...Read more
Author:Nahman, Anton; De Lange, Willem J; Oelofse, Suzanna HH; Godfrey, Linda KDate:Nov 2012Food waste is problematic for a number of reasons, including the loss of a potentially valuable food source or resource for use in other processes (e.g. energy generation or composting), wasted resources and emissions in the food supply chain, ...Read more
Author:Mahumani, BKDate:Mar 2009This thesis constitutes a socio-economic study that centres on determining the economic value of groundwater in rural and agricultural uses. Limpopo Water Management Area (WMA1) and Luvuvhu/Letaba Water Management Area (WMA2) were studied in ...Read more