Since South African rural economies are not primarily land based, rural development strategies encouraging local cash economies are key, or such efforts will not yield broad benefits and instead simply enrich those better off https://t.co/cEiDQwldEd @HubWi
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Featured paper: Off-farm incomes are almost the sole source of cash for rural households in a rural former homeland region, and while environmental products and crops are important for direct use, they generate insignificant cash incomes from sales. http
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Our latest paper highlights the the centrality of "off-farm" income in a rural former "homeland" region of South Africa: A portfolio perspective of rural livelihoods in Bushbuckridge, South Africa, SA Journal of Science https://t.co/ubLp3DhM26