Accurate measures of productivity growth are an important policy tool but are difficult to obtain in South African circumstances. In this article, we review work on the measurement of farm-level productivity in South Africa since the earliest attempts at multifactor indices in the early 1990s....

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Individual choices: explaining food consumption and production -- Chapter 3: Societal outcomes: predicting food market prices and quantities -- Chapter 4: Social welfare: evaluating change in food market outcomes -- Chapter 5: Market power: when innovation,...