'Alternative foods' and community-based development: Rooibos tea production in South Africa's West Coast Mountains

Applied Geography

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-129

  Nel, Etienne ^a   Binns, Tony ^b   Bek, David ^b  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alternate economic spaces; Alternative food initiatives; Community based development; Fairtrade; NGOs; Rooibos tea; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MARKETING; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; TEA;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ASPALATHUS; ASPALATHUS LINEARIS; FABACEAE;

EID: 33846923831     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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