Stokvels play crucial roles in the lives of poor households, in particular those that are faced with financial challenges. They contribute to enterprise development, improvement of housing and enhance access to credit and ...
Cosmo City Integrated Development Project is a mixed-use, integrated housing and inclusionary housing development for families from different income groups. The project was conceived in response to the needs of the people ...
Integrated development planning seeks to shift from rigid, complex, and autocratic approaches
to a more democratic, strategic and integrated form where grassroots communities have a say in
their own development. South ...
Women and men use water differently. A significant number of rural women and men rely on natural water resources for farming in irrigated schemes, as a key and common economic activity. Women undertake farming either ...
Small-scale horticultural producers are the most vulnerable to climate variability effects. The prevailing variabilities are a threat to the survival of small-scale farming. These patterns are predicted to continue in the ...
The resilience concept has attracted interest across many fields in the recent years. The
interdisciplinary nature of the concept has led to the existence of numerous definitions,
interpretations and measurement approaches. ...
The Eucalyptus woodlots provide material benefits that could support the livelihoods of the communities. These trees are very important to the rural households; they provide an array of products, particularly timber and ...
Declining underground water, unpredictable rainfall patterns and high temperatures pose a threat to future food and water security. Water security is also threatened by the growing demand for water in the agriculture sector ...
Water is central to sustainable agricultural intensification, as it directly influences several dimensions of sustainability, including social, economic, health and environmental aspects. Therefore, lack of water is the ...
Participatory approaches in community-driven projects are usually connected to sustainable livelihoods. Previous studies have focussed more on community-based tourism (CBT), where private investors, donors and non-governmental ...
Despite numerous attempts to improve the participation of the Traditional Leadership Institution (TLI) in rural development, it is still not clear what its sector-specific roles and contributions are in agriculture (TLIC). ...
In fragile contexts, the main priority for service providers is to direct resources to interventions that save the lives of vulnerable communities. Sometimes, this is done at the expense of long-term sustainable rural ...
The need for acquiring intercultural competencies (ICs) among postgraduate students increased drastically in the 21st Century. This was in response to the need for graduates from higher education institutions (HEIs) to be ...
Youth-owned small retail businesses in rural areas are perceived as a potential panacea for poverty, unemployment and agents of socio-economic integration. However, most of them often fail to reach their full potential. ...
Seasonal variation and long-term change in climate have a direct impact on the form, scale, spatial and temporal effects on maize farming. Adaptation is key to reducing the effects. Several costs accompany the adaptation ...
Indigenous games play an important role in human life, for example entertainment, socialization, learning, sport and culture preservation. The concern is that youth of today are generally no longer seen participating in ...
Subsistence agriculture is regarded as a primary strategy adopted by the rural households for increasing their access to food for their families. Food system options for rural households are mainly through own production ...
Entrepreneurship is currently widely considered by government and other organisation bodies a means to reduce unemployment among young people. However, despite the South African government’s efforts to promote entrepreneurship ...
In several countries, traditional leaders and Ward Committees are respected players in rural development. In light of this, the South African government made several efforts to build sustainable harmony among traditional ...
Throughout the world, small-scale food vending forms an integral part of society, serving as a poverty buffer and a local based economy generation strategy to optimize livelihoods. However, untrustworthiness and safety ...