- Title
- Stock farmers and the state: a case study of animal healthcare practices in Hertzog Eastern Cape Province South Africa
- Creator
- Jenjezwa, Vimbai Rachel
- Subject
- Agriculture and state -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Traditional veterinary medicine -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Animal health
- Subject
- Domestic animals -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc (Geography)
- Identifier
- vital:11508
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/269
- Identifier
- Agriculture and state -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Traditional veterinary medicine -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Animal health
- Identifier
- Domestic animals -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description
- The animal healthcare practices of most communal farmers involve the use of both conventional and ethnoveterinary medicines. This study presents information on the animal healthcare practices of stock farmers in Hertzog, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It also presents the findings on the social, economic and political aspects surrounding animal healthcare. The research applied two theories namely structuration theory and the Context, Practice and Belief (CPB) framework. Interviews and participant observation were used to collect data. The communal farmers widely used conventional medicines however, proper administration methods were not followed. Ethnoveterinary medicines were used to prevent and treat disease, even by the younger stock farmers. The stock farmers used ethnoveterinary medicines mainly because of the lack of finance to purchase the conventional medicines, even though the latter was preferred. The stock farmers actively participated in state programmes but felt that they needed more state veterinarian visits and state provided medications because they could not afford private veterinarians and conventional medicines. Therefore, this study attempts to contribute to an understanding of the use of ethnoveterinary medicine and communal farmers’ animal healthcare practices.
- Format
- 188 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science & Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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