Cattle ownership and production in the communal areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorAinslie, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorKepe, Thembela
dc.contributor.authorNtsebeza, Lungisile
dc.contributor.authorNtshona, Zolile
dc.contributor.authorTurner, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-06T10:33:33Z
dc.date.available2019-03-06T10:33:33Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractThis report documents a study of the social and economic structure of cattle ownership and production in the communal tenure areas of the Eastern Cape (i.e. the former Bantustans of Transkei and Ciskei). The report begins with a review of the conventional arguments relating to cattle production systems in communal tenure areas, i.e. that they are inefficient and irrational. In seeking to challenge these pervasive assumptions concerning the way in which cattle production systems in these areas apparently work, it is argued, first, that very little systematic and detailed knowledge of these systems actually exists on which to base arguments that have had considerable impact and, second, that cattle ownership and production for African people in the Eastern Cape, quite apart from its obvious utility and cultural resonance, has been, for many decades, expressly about political-economic struggle against the state and its varied policies, which have had the effect – if not always the explicit intention – of the gradual proletarianisation of the rural population.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAinslie, A. et al. (2002). Cattle ownership and production in the communal areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Research Report 10. Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4360
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch Report;10
dc.subjectCattle ownershipen_US
dc.subjectEastern Capeen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectBantustansen_US
dc.subjectLivestock productionen_US
dc.titleCattle ownership and production in the communal areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africaen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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