Growing of trees in home-gardens by rural households in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo Provinces, South Africa
Growing of trees in home-gardens by rural households in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo Provinces, South Africa
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南非东开普省和林波波省农村家庭在家庭花园中种植树木
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2005
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M. Cocks
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F. Paumgarten;C. Shackleton;M. Cocks
树木为农村家庭提供了广泛的商品和服务，如果将其纳入生计战略，将有助于减少他们面对逆境的脆弱性。政府和决策者往往忽视树木的贡献，因此资源集中在经济作物和牲畜上。南非东开普省和林波波省的村民将自家花园的一系列树木用于各种目的，但主要用于水果和阴凉。在家庭的家庭花园中种植或积极保留树木。东开普省的那些村庄与林波波省的村庄之间存在着明显的差异，特别是在每公顷的树木总密度和每户的物种数量方面，林波波省的这两个方面都要大得多。每个村庄都列出了五种最喜欢的树种，揭示了林波波省对外来果树的偏好，以及东开普省外来果树和遮荫树的混合。家庭还保留有用的本地物种，主要是结果物种。一系列因素限制了家庭花园中的树木生长，家庭参与种植和维护树木的做法。并非所有这些限制和做法在不同的地方都有很大的不同。
Trees provide a wide range of goods and services to rural households which, when incorporated into their livelihood strategies, help reduce their vulnerability to adversity. Governments and policy makers often ignore the contribution made by trees and consequently resources are focussed on cash crops and livestock. Villagers in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo Province, South Africa utilise a range of trees from home-gardens for various purposes, although predominantly for fruit and shade. Trees are either planted or actively retained in households' home-gardens. There were noticeable differences between the villages in the Eastern Cape and those in Limpopo Province, particularly with respect to the overall density of trees per hectare and the number of species per household, both being significantly greater in Limpopo Province. The five most preferred species were listed for each village, revealing a preference for exotic fruit trees in Limpopo Province and a mix of exotic fruit trees and shade trees in the Eastern Cape. Households also retained useful indigenous species, predominantly fruit-bearing species. A range of factors constrain tree growing in home-gardens and households engage in practices to grow and maintain their trees. Not all of these constraints and practices were significantly different between the various localities.