The role of land-based strategies in rural livelihoods: The contribution of arable production, animal husbandry and natural resource harvesting in communal areas in South Africa

By C. Shackleton, S. Shackleton, B. Cousins. 2001

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. F. Paumgarten
2. C. Shackleton
3. S. Shackleton
4. P. Jacobs
5. MN Baiphethi
6. N. Bird
7. E. Buiten

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. F. Paumgarten
2. C. Shackleton
3. S. Shackleton
4. Reinette Biggs

In Soil Science

1. C. Shackleton
2. F. Paumgarten
3. S. Shackleton

Citations in the corpus

• Mapping social–ecological systems: Identifying ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’ dynamics based on characteristic bundles of ecosystem service use (2015, background): “Similarly, the role of land tenure and access to common pool resources in determining natural resource use has long been thought to be important (Barbier, 1997; Hardin, 1968; Shackleton et al., 2001), and is included in this study as the amount of land under traditional authority rule (in other word”
• The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa (2009, background): “Several studies have been undertaken in South Africa to understand and/or address some of the issues raised relating to improving household food production (see for example Shackleton et al., 2001; Dovie et al., 2003; Seti, 2003; Baiphethi, 2004; Kundhlande et al., 2004; Hart & Vorster, 2007).”
• Rural Livelihoods in South Africa: Complexity, Vulnerability and Differentiation (2013, neutral): “2006;Aliber and Hart 2009) to the intensive cultivation of homestead plots (Andrew and Fox 2004), and practices of natural resource harvesting (Shackelton et al. 2001), land remains an important component in the livelihood repertoires of the rural subaltern (Van Averbeke and Khosa 2007).”
• Wealth differentiation in household use and trade in non-timber forest products in South Africa (2009, background): “Despite these findings, there is often little recognition or support for this livelihood strategy and although it may be significant, the value of NTFPs has generally not been captured in regional and national statistics (Shackleton et al., 2001).”
• Cropland Abandonment in South African Smallholder Communal Lands: Land Cover Change (1950–2010) and Farmer Perceptions of Contributing Factors (2018, background): “At the household scale they include a reduction in self-provisioning capacity and income [8], reduced dietary diversity, and increased food insecurity, vulnerability and poverty [20].”
• The importance of dry woodlands and forests in rural livelihoods and poverty alleviation in South Africa (2007, positive): “The annual, gross, direct-use value of these resources from the savanna biome alone has been conservatively estimated to be over R8 billion, most of which is unaccounted in the formal national and provincial economic statistics (Shackleton et al., 2001a).”
• The Role of non-timber forest products as safety-nets: A review of evidence with a focus on South Africa (2005, background): “NTFPs have often been undervalued because studies failed to examine the range utilised by communities and, only considered them in terms of their direct-use values, not their existence and option values, their role in establishing social ties, local exchanges for goods and services, sacred areas, an”
• Consumption and direct-use values of savanna bio-resources used by rural households in Mametja, a semi-arid area of Limpopo province, South Africa. (2003, background): “Indigenous natural resources therefore play a vital role in the livelihoods of local communities.(9,20) These resources, however, are coming under increasing pressure for reasons such as poverty, high human population densities, and the weakening of traditional authorities that have historically bee”