IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/agreko/347965.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

How stable are farmers’ risk perceptions? A follow-up study of one community in the Karoo

Author

Listed:
  • Wustro, Ivo
  • Conradie, Beatrice

Abstract

Two cohorts of Likert scale risk data were subjected to rigorous principal component analysis to simplify the participants’ risk rankings. This improves methodologically on the first Karoo risk analysis. More than 80% of the items and two-thirds of the participants overlap in these datasets, which made it possible to study the stability of these perceptions over the four years that elapsed between the surveys. Two-thirds of the items were factorable and the four common factors identified in the first cohort all persisted in the second cohort, which indicates stability. The four items added to the second survey created the opportunity to study how emerging structures differ when the lists change. The principal component analysis conducted on the longer list identified a new common concern about growing government control over private enterprise that came to light as a result of adding four extra items. Predation ranked as the number one risk in both surveys followed by drought. Labour and security were middling risks, market access a low risk and a lack of support from the local cooperative no risk at all.

Suggested Citation

  • Wustro, Ivo & Conradie, Beatrice, 2019. "How stable are farmers’ risk perceptions? A follow-up study of one community in the Karoo," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 59(01), September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:agreko:347965
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.347965
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/347965/files/How%20stable%20are%20farmers%20%20risk%20perceptions%20%20A%20follow-up%20study%20of%20one%20community%20in%20the%20Karoo.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.347965?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kinfe Gebreegziabher & Tewodros Tadesse, 2014. "Risk perception and management in smallholder dairy farming in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(3), pages 367-381, March.
    2. Ruth Hall, 2004. "A Political economy of land reform in South Africa," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(100), pages 213-227, June.
    3. Conradie, Beatrice & Piesse, Jenifer, 2016. "Ranking perceived risk to farmers: How important is the environment?," African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, African Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 11(4), pages 1-14, December.
    4. Nicoli Nattrass & Beatrice Conradie, 2015. "Jackal Narratives: Predator Control and Contested Ecologies in the Karoo, South Africa," Journal of Southern African Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(4), pages 753-771, July.
    5. Esterhuyse, Surina & Avenant, Marinda & Redelinghuys, Nola & Kijko, Andrzej & Glazewski, Jan & Plit, Lisa & Kemp, Marthie & Smit, Ansie & Vos, A. Tascha, 2018. "Monitoring of unconventional oil and gas extraction and its policy implications: A case study from South Africa," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 118(C), pages 109-120.
    6. Morales, C. & Garrido, Alberto & Palinkas, Peter & Szekely, Csaba, 2008. "Risks Perceptions and Risk Management Instruments in the European Union: do farmers have a clear idea of what they need?," 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium 43956, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    7. Kisaka-Lwayo, Maggie & Obi, Ajuruchukwu, 2012. "Risk perceptions and management strategies by smallholder farmers in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa," International Journal of Agricultural Management, Institute of Agricultural Management, vol. 1(3), pages 1-12.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Huet, E.K. & Adam, M. & Giller, K.E. & Descheemaeker, K., 2020. "Diversity in perception and management of farming risks in southern Mali," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 184(C).
    2. Thi Tam Duong & Tom Brewer & Jo Luck & Kerstin Zander, 2019. "A Global Review of Farmers’ Perceptions of Agricultural Risks and Risk Management Strategies," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 9(1), pages 1-16, January.
    3. Bishu, Kinfe & O'Reilly, Seamus & Lahiff, Edward & Steiner, Bodo, 2016. "Cattle farmers’ perceptions of risk and risk management strategies," MPRA Paper 74954, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Clemence Rusenga, 2019. "The Agribusiness Model in South African Land Reform? Land Use Implications for the Land Reform Beneficiaries," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 8(3), pages 440-461, December.
    5. Conradie, Beatrice, 2019. "Land Use and Redistribution in the Arid West: The case of Laingsburg Magisterial District," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 58(3), June.
    6. Castañeda-Vera, Alba & Garrido, Alberto, 2017. "Evaluation of risk management tools for stabilising farm income under CAP 2014-2020," Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales, Spanish Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 17(01), June.
    7. Katarzyna Cieslik & Olivia D’Aoust, 2018. "Risky Business? Rural Entrepreneurship in Subsistence Markets: Evidence from Burundi," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 30(4), pages 693-717, September.
    8. repec:ags:ijag24:345038 is not listed on IDEAS
    9. Richard Kofi Asravor & Daniel Bruce Sarpong, 2023. "Risk preferences and management strategies of farmers in Ghana: Does the type of crop grown matter?," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(6), pages 1080-1098, August.
    10. Liebenberg, Frikkie & Pardey, Philip G., 2011. "South African agricultural R&D: Policies and public institutions, 1880–2007," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 50(01), June.
    11. Shakra, R., 2018. "Aspirations and Farmers Investment Choices - An Investigation of Aspirations Failure in South Africa," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277177, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    12. Liz Alden Wily, 2018. "The Community Land Act in Kenya Opportunities and Challenges for Communities," Land, MDPI, vol. 7(1), pages 1-25, January.
    13. Walter Musakwa, 2018. "Identifying land suitable for agricultural land reform using GIS-MCDA in South Africa," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 20(5), pages 2281-2299, October.
    14. Schulze, Birgit, 2011. "Dynamic Markets – Dynamic Relationships: The Example of Grain Marketing in Germany," 2011 International European Forum, February 14-18, 2011, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria 122001, International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks.
    15. Parker, Gail Denise & Costa, King, 2021. "Mapping The Emergence Of Local Economic Development In South Africa Since The Dawn Of Democracy," AfricArxiv hcxk4_v1, Center for Open Science.
    16. Stefan Andreasson, 2006. "Stand and Deliver: Private Property and the Politics of Global Dispossession," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 54(1), pages 3-22, March.
    17. Parker, Gail Denise, 2021. "The Challenge Of Sustainable Land-Based Local Economic Development In Poor Communities Of South Africa: The Case Of Groblershoop, Northern Cape," AfricArxiv rqx9b, Center for Open Science.
    18. Lajos Barath & Raushan Bokusheva & Imre Ferto, 2016. "Studying Farm Insurance Demand under Financial Constraints," CERS-IE WORKING PAPERS 1625, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.
    19. Antonádia Borges, 2020. "Land as Home in South Africa: The Living and the Dead in Ritual Conversations," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 9(3), pages 275-300, December.
    20. Hayley S. Clements & Matthew F. Child & Lehman Lindeque & Kyra Lunderstedt & Alta Vos, 2022. "Lessons from COVID-19 for wildlife ranching in a changing world," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 5(12), pages 1040-1048, December.
    21. Wang, Yue & Zhang, Zhenke & Xu, Minghui, 2023. "Evolution pattern of African countries' oil trade under the changing in the global oil market," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 284(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:agreko:347965. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aeasaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.