Growing of trees in home-gardens by rural households in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo Provinces, South Africa:

Shackleton, Charlie M; Paumgarten, Fiona; Cocks, Michelle L

Title: Growing of trees in home-gardens by rural households in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo Provinces, South Africa:
Creator: Shackleton, Charlie M
Creator: Paumgarten, Fiona
Creator: Cocks, Michelle L
Date Issued: 2009
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
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology
Relation: 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.
Relation: The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology volume 12 number 4 365 383 November 2009 1745-2627
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Cocks, Michelle Linda (Assoc Prof)

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