Livelihoods and Landscapes: The People of Guquka and Koloni and Their ResourcesPaulus Gerardus Maria Hebinck, Peter C. Lent BRILL, 2007 - 394 pagina's 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. |
Inhoudsopgave
AN INTRODUCTION Paul Hebinck | 1 |
2 RURAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE EASTERN CAPE Paul Hebinck and Wim van Averbeke | 33 |
3 AGROECOLOGY LAND USE AND SMALLHOLDER FARMING IN THE CENTRAL EASTERN CAPE Wim van Averbeke and James Bennett | 67 |
SETTLEMENT AND RESOURCES Paul Hebinck and Lothar Smith | 91 |
5 NATURAL RESOURCE BASE AND AGRICULTURAL POTENTIALS Peter C Lent | 121 |
6 LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS Wim van Averbeke and James Bennett | 139 |
A HISTORY OF LAND USE IN GUQUKA AND KOLONI 19381996 Peter C Lent and Guilty Mupakati | 165 |
8 PRODUCTION OF CROPS IN ARABLE FIELDS AND HOME GARDENS Paul Hebinck and Nomakaya Monde | 181 |
10 GATHERING FROM THE LAND Peter C Lent | 257 |
11 MOBILITY AND POPULATION DYNAMICS Lothar Smith and Paul Hebinck | 267 |
12 CONTEMPORARY LIVELIHOODS Wim van Averbeke and Paul Hebinck | 285 |
13 LIFE HISTORIES AND LIVELIHOOD TRAJECTORIES Paul Hebinck Wim van Averbeke Nomakhaya Monde Lothar Smith and James Bennett | 307 |
PEOPLE RESOURCES AND LAND USE Paul Hebinck and Wim van Averbeke | 335 |
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List of contributors | 389 |
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activities African agriculture Amatola animals arable allotments arable fields arable land allocations ARDRI Averbeke Bantu betterment planning cash cattle central Eastern Cape chapter Ciskei region consumption crop production cultivation decline dry season Eastern Cape Province economic erosion factors fallow farmers farming fenced forage former Ciskei goats grain grazing gullies Guquka and Koloni harvesting Hebinck herd home gardens homeland homestead income homesteads households important Keiskammahoek King William’s Town kraal labour migration landscape livestock livestock owners livestock production living maize Makhuzeni male manure mean Mengezelei ment Mfengu Middledrift Mlami Mqalo natural resources neighbouring Nguni ownership patterns planted plots ploughing Port Elizabeth processes quitrent rainfall range rangeland remittances residential area residents River role rural livelihoods settlement sharecropping sheep soil sources South Africa species survey Table tenure tion Town tractor Transkei Tyume urban vegetation veld Verdoodt village Vuyo wages Xhosa