- Title
- Growing of trees in home-gardens by rural households in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo Provinces, South Africa:
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M, Paumgarten, Fiona, Cocks, Michelle L
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141360
- Identifier
- vital:37965
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/13504500509469647
- Description
- Trees provide a wide range of goods and services to rural households which, when incorporated into their livelihood strategies, help reduce their vulnerability to adversity. Governments and policy makers often ignore the contribution made by trees and consequently resources are focussed on cash crops and livestock. Villagers in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo Province, South Africa utilise a range of trees from home-gardens for various purposes, although predominantly for fruit and shade. Trees are either planted or actively retained in households' home-gardens. There were noticeable differences between the villages in the Eastern Cape and those in Limpopo Province, particularly with respect to the overall density of trees per hectare and the number of species per household, both being significantly greater in Limpopo Province. The five most preferred species were listed for each village, revealing a preference for exotic fruit trees in Limpopo Province and a mix of exotic fruit trees and shade trees in the Eastern Cape. Households also retained useful indigenous species, predominantly fruit-bearing species. A range of factors constrain tree growing in home-gardens and households engage in practices to grow and maintain their trees. Not all of these constraints and practices were significantly different between the various localities.
- Format
- 19 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, Paumgarten, F., Shackleton, C. and Cocks, M., 2005. Growing of trees in home-gardens by rural households in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo Provinces, South Africa. The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 12(4), pp.365-383., The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology volume 12 number 4 365 383 November 2009 1745-2627
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RU Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
RU Department of Environmental Science
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
Cocks, Michelle Linda (Assoc Prof)
RU Department of Anthropology
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
SDG 15. Life On Land
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