Changes in household use and sale of locally collected environmental resources over a 15-year period in a rural village, South Africa

Falayi, Menelisi; Shackleton, Sheona E; Kemp, Georgina Cundill; Shackleton, Charlie M

Title: Changes in household use and sale of locally collected environmental resources over a 15-year period in a rural village, South Africa
Creator: Falayi, Menelisi
Creator: Shackleton, Sheona E
Creator: Kemp, Georgina Cundill
Creator: Shackleton, Charlie M
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2019
Date: 2019
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/398196
Identifier: vital:69383
Identifier: xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14728028.2019.1568309"
Description: Many rural areas are experiencing rapid social-ecological changes, impacting livelihoods and creating less certain futures. Despite several decades of research on the use of locally collected environmental resources there have been few repeat studies, especially in South and Southern Africa, to consider how households may be altering such use alongside other changes. This paper explores changes in the use of environmental resources by communities in the Kat River Valley, South Africa over a fifteen-year period, between 2000 and 2015, using a repeat survey, key informant interviews and other data from a larger study relating to social-ecological change. The proportion of households collecting different environmental resources was similar between the two periods. However, the mean quantities used per household had declined for several resources . Consequently, the monetary contribution or worth of these to livelihoods also declined, except for fuelwood and river sand. These changes can be related to, amongst others, transformations in both the local landscape and socio-economic environment, such as increases in state social welfare, a decline in agricultural production, woody plant encroachment, generational preferences, and the expansion of supermarket retailers. Understanding such trends is important for considering the sustainable management of landscapes and livelihoods into the future.
Format: computer
Format: online resource
Format: application/pdf
Format: 1 online resource (18 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Relation: Forests, Trees and Livelihoods
Relation: Falayi, M., Shackleton, S.E., Cundill Kemp, G. and Shackleton, C.M., 2019. Changes in household use and sale of locally collected environmental resources over a 15-year period in a rural village, South Africa. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 28(2), pp.90-107
Relation: Forests, Trees and Livelihoods volume 28 number 2 p. 90 2019 2164-3075
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Cundill, Georgina (Dr)

RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods

RU Department of Environmental Science

Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)

SDG 08. Decent Work and Economic Growth

SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities

SDG 15. Life On Land

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