Direct-use value of smallholder crop production in a semi-arid rural South African village

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 337-357

  Dovie, Delali B K ^a   Witkowski, E T F ^a   Shackleton, Charlie M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Direct use value; Food security; Livelihoods; Mixed cropping; Smallholder farms

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOOD SECURITY; MIXED FARMING; RURAL ECONOMY; SEMIARID REGION; SMALLHOLDER;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; CITRULLUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037375428     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-521X(02)00124-5     Document Type: Article

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