- Title
- Household attributes promote diversity of tree holdings in rural areas, South Africa:
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Creator
- Paumgarten, Fiona
- Creator
- Cocks, Michelle L
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141301
- Identifier
- vital:37960
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1007/s10457-007-9066-5
- Description
- Trees within the homestead area provide many functions to rural households. However, within the semi-arid regions of southern Africa, there has been only limited examination of the correlates between the socio-economic attributes of rural households and the density, species richness and types of trees they keep. This paper reports on a multivariate analysis of household attributes in relation to homestead tree holdings from six rural villages in South Africa. In terms of density of trees per household, gender of the household head was the only significant correlate, with female-headed households having significantly fewer trees than their male-headed counterparts. This was especially so for the density of indigenous trees.
- Format
- 10 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Agroforestry systems
- Relation
- Shackleton, C.M., Paumgarten, F. and Cocks, M.L., 2008. Household attributes promote diversity of tree holdings in rural areas, South Africa. Agroforestry systems, 72(3), pp.221-230.
- Relation
- Agroforestry systems volume 72 number 3 221 230 June 2007 1572-9680
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RU Department of Environmental Science
RU Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Cocks, Michelle Linda (Assoc Prof)
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
RU Department of Anthropology
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