- Title
- The use of and trade in indigenous edible fruits in the Bushbuckridge savanna region, South Africa
- Creator
- Shackleton, Charlie M
- Creator
- Dzerefos, C M
- Creator
- Shackleton, Sheona E
- Creator
- Mathabela, F R
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2000
- Date
- 2000
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/182396
- Identifier
- vital:43826
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.2000.9991616"
- Description
- The use, processing, cultivation and trading of indigenous edible fruits was recorded across a rainfall gradient in the Mpumalanga lowveld. Three transects, each consisting of one village in a relatively high rainfall zone, one village in a low rainfall zone, and one intermediate, were sampled by means of 20 households per village. Nearly all households made use of indigenous edible fruits to some extent, with households in the wettest region using the greatest diversity of fruits. The duration of availability of selected species was increased through drying, storing and processing the raw fruits for later consumption. Such activities were more common in the drier regions relative to the wetter villages. Just less than half the respondents maintained indigenous fruit trees within their homestead or arable fields, whereas more than 65% grew exotic commercial fruit species. Many respondents traded in edible fruits, but very few obtained a significant income in this way. Nonetheless, even casual trading provided vital supplementary income for low‐income households.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (22 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ecology of Food and Nutrition
- Relation
- Shackleton, C.M., Dzerefos, C.M., Shackleton, S.E. and Mathabela, F.R., 2000. The use of and trade in indigenous edible fruits in the Bushbuckridge savanna region, South Africa. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 39(3), pp.225-245
- Relation
- Ecology of Food and Nutrition volume 39 number 3 p. 225 2000 1543-5237
- Rights
- Publisher
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- Rights
- Open Access
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