We review and synthesize recent South African work that examines the role and importance
of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in the daily lives of rural people in South Africa. The …

Indigenous forests and savannas, along with plantation forests, offer numerous benefits to
rural communities and society at large. Yet, the role of forests and forestry in contributing to …

Poor households access their food from the market, subsistence production and transfers
from public programmes or other households. In the past rural households produced most of …

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index data (NDVI, 1km2, 1985–2003) and modeled net primary production (NPP, 8km2 …

This study mapped the production of five ecosystem services in South Africa: surface water
supply, water flow regulation, soil accumulation, soil retention, and carbon storage. The …

This study uses a multi-case dataset to question current assumptions about the gender
differentiation of forest product use. We test some of the commonly held ideas on how men …

We present an approach to identify and map social–ecological systems based on the direct
use of ecosystem services by households. This approach builds on the premise that …

There is a pressing need for an objective, repeatable, systematic and spatially explicit
measure of land degradation. In northeastern South Africa (SA), there are large areas of the …

Scientific evidence for global environmental change in Africa presents a prima facia case for
increased human migration and displacement. Closer scrutiny of the evidence on …

Emerging research within health geography and related fields is attending to the social
dimensions of human health. Notwithstanding these contributions, health geography has …