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This book provides a comprehensive, global synthesis of current
knowledge on the potential and challenges associated with the
multiple roles, use, management and marketing of non-timber forest
products (NTFPs). There has been considerable research and policy
effort surrounding NTFPs over the last two and half decades. The
book explores the evolution of sentiments regarding the potential
of NTFPs in promoting options for sustainable multi-purpose forest
management, income generation and poverty alleviation. Based on a
critical analysis of the debates and discourses it employs a
systematic approach to present a balanced and realistic perspective
on the benefits and challenges associated with NTFP use and
management within local livelihoods and landscapes, supported with
case examples from both the southern and northern hemispheres. This
book covers the social, economic and ecological dimensions of NTFPs
and closes with an examination of future prospects and research
directions.
This book provides a comprehensive, global synthesis of current
knowledge on the potential and challenges associated with the
multiple roles, use, management and marketing of non-timber forest
products (NTFPs). There has been considerable research and policy
effort surrounding NTFPs over the last two and half decades. The
book explores the evolution of sentiments regarding the potential
of NTFPs in promoting options for sustainable multi-purpose forest
management, income generation and poverty alleviation. Based on a
critical analysis of the debates and discourses it employs a
systematic approach to present a balanced and realistic perspective
on the benefits and challenges associated with NTFP use and
management within local livelihoods and landscapes, supported with
case examples from both the southern and northern hemispheres. This
book covers the social, economic and ecological dimensions of NTFPs
and closes with an examination of future prospects and research
directions.
This title represents a defining synthesis of the use and
socio-economic value of timber and non-timber resources from
indigenous forests and woodlands in South Africa. It provides a
review of current research and thinking on policies and practices
affecting these two biomes. Indigenous forests and woodlands
represent the smallest and largest biomes, respectively, in South
Africa, but share the common attribute of having trees as a
significant component of their structure, composition, functioning
and value, which differentiates them from the other five biomes.
They are also both widely distributed across several provinces,
posing challenges for workable policies and interventions at the
local level. Since 1994 there has been a paradigm shift in the
approach to the management of forest and woodland resources, with a
move away from former 'preservationist' policies and an increased
emphasis on the sustainable extractive use of natural resources,
particularly by rural communities. A growing recognition of the
potential value that these resources hold for local economies and
livelihoods has been accompanied by the restructuring of national
institutions governing forests and woodlands, and a number of new
policies for integrated management. Indigenous forests and
woodlands in South Africa will prove useful to researchers,
scientists, and post-graduate students in southern Africa and
further afield, as well as to non-governmental organisations,
government officials, policy-makers, development practitioners and
those involved in managing and conserving our indigenous forest and
woodland heritage. It is a wide-ranging volume, incorporating both
broad view chapters and more focused case studies.
This book debates the emergent proprieties of rural and peri-urban
South Africa since land and agrarian reforms were initiated after
the transition to democracy in 1994. It explores how these reforms
have broadened options for the use of land and natural resources.
Reform-minded policies in South Africa have assumed that if access
to land and other natural resources is less problematic, the use of
these resources would be intensified which in turn would alter the
structure and dynamic of rural and urban poverty. Reforming Land
and Resource Use in South Africa examines in detail, and from
several disciplinary perspectives, whether and how this has
occurred, and if not, why not. A key argument that this collection
pursues is whether land reform has resulted in transformed use of
natural (i.e. land, crops, cattle, rangeland, wild products etc.)
and other strategic resources (labour, knowledge, institutions,
networks etc.), and the value communities and household place on
them. The contributions explore a combination of new or alternative
meanings of land, including a look beyond crops and cattle per se
to include the collection and selling of wild products, as well as
a discussion of how land for agriculture has become redefined by
land reform beneficiaries as urban land, for settlement and urban
employment opportunities, in addition to urban-based agricultural
activities. Unlike most analyses and commentaries on land reform,
this book pursues an analysis of land reform dynamics at various
levels of aggregation. National and regional level analyses of
poverty and the ramifications of the property clause are combined
with analyses at disaggregate levels such as the land reform
project or village. The book will be of interest to both
researchers and policy makers with an interest in rural development
and social change.
This book debates the emergent proprieties of rural and peri-urban
South Africa since land and agrarian reforms were initiated after
the transition to democracy in 1994. It explores how these reforms
have broadened options for the use of land and natural resources.
Reform-minded policies in South Africa have assumed that if access
to land and other natural resources is less problematic, the use of
these resources would be intensified which in turn would alter the
structure and dynamic of rural and urban poverty. Reforming Land
and Resource Use in South Africa examines in detail, and from
several disciplinary perspectives, whether and how this has
occurred, and if not, why not. A key argument that this collection
pursues is whether land reform has resulted in transformed use of
natural (i.e. land, crops, cattle, rangeland, wild products etc.)
and other strategic resources (labour, knowledge, institutions,
networks etc.), and the value communities and household place on
them. The contributions explore a combination of new or alternative
meanings of land, including a look beyond crops and cattle per se
to include the collection and selling of wild products, as well as
a discussion of how land for agriculture has become redefined by
land reform beneficiaries as urban land, for settlement and urban
employment opportunities, in addition to urban-based agricultural
activities. Unlike most analyses and commentaries on land reform,
this book pursues an analysis of land reform dynamics at various
levels of aggregation. National and regional level analyses of
poverty and the ramifications of the property clause are combined
with analyses at disaggregate levels such as the land reform
project or village. The book will be of interest to both
researchers and policy makers with an interest in rural development
and social change.
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