Author: James E. BennettPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Contribution of Arable Land Allocations to Cattle Production Systems in Communal Areas of Central Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Author: James E. BennettLivelihoods and Landscapes
Author: Paul HebinckPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047430948
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Drawing on original data, secondary literature, aerial photographs and archives, this book analyzes changes in the use of the landscape and the nature of rural livelihoods in two South African villages. Taking an interdisciplinary approach on how livelihoods and landscapes in the Eastern Cape link the text provides a comprehensive study of the patterns of land use over time. Three separate chapters focus on cropping and cultivation practices, livestock and foraging as well as the gathering of wild plants. The book gives a vivid picture of the social dynamics and the interaction between ‘urban’ and ‘rural’. It depicts the steady deterioration in agricultural production and the corresponding increase in dependence on social grants and wages. Despite this trend remnants of a peasantry do exist.
Cattle Ownership and Production in the Communal Areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Author: Andrew AinsliePublisher:
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Pastoral systems in marginal environments
Author: J.A. MilnePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9086865577
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Pastoral systems are some of the most fragile human ecosystems that exist and are under threat from the expansion of cultivation, changes in social patterns and climate change. These ecosystems are of major importance since they contain a rich biological and cultural diversity. The aim of the book is to take a holistic view of pastoral systems by bringing together papers written by specialists in plant and animal ecology with an interest in the application of their research with papers taking an economic and social perspective. The focus is on marginal environments where the issues are in greatest relief with the papers tackling key issues in semi-arid and disadvantaged temperate areas. The key issues relate to identifying the biological constraints of these pastoral systems, understanding soil/plant/animal relationships, exploring biodiversity, landscape and social issues in multi-functional systems and providing solutions to constraints through a number of case studies. By comparing and contrasting these two environments, the book will be taking a completely new approach to understanding how pastoral systems function and how they will evolve in the future. The book is of value to all those with an interest in pastoral systems by providing an up-to-date account of current understanding of these multi-functional systems and new insights into how they function and how they will develop in the future.
Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Theses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Land Use and Livelihoods
Author: Maura AndrewPublisher:
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Category : Land reform
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
British National Bibliography for Report Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Global Livestock Production Systems
Author: Timothy P. RobinsonPublisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
ISBN: 9789251070338
Category : Animal Production
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Informed livestock sector policy development and priority setting is heavily dependent on a good understanding of livestock production systems. In a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Livestock Research Institute, stock has been taken of where we have come from in agricultural systems classification and mapping; the current state of the art; and the directions in which research and data collection efforts need to take in the future. The book also addresses issues relating to the intensity and scale of production, moving from what is done to how it is done. The intensification of production is an area of particular importance, for it is in the intensive systems that changes are occurring most rapidly and where most information is needed on the implications that intensification of production may have for livelihoods, poverty alleviation, animal diseases, public health and environmental outcomes. A series of case studies is provided, linking livestock production systems to rural livelihoods and poverty and examples of the application of livestock production system maps are drawn from livestock production, now and in the future; livestock's impact on the global environment; animal and public health; and livestock and livelihoods. This book provides a formal reference to Version 5 of the global livestock production systems map, and to revised estimates of the numbers of rural poor livestock keepers, by country and livestock production system.
Supporting Small-scale Farmers and Rural Organisations
Author: Sylvain PerretPublisher: Editions Quae
ISBN: 9781919825922
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Report on the Evaluation of Land Administration in the Eastern Cape
Author: South Africa. Public Service CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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