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| Title: | Indigenous plant resources: a buffer against rural poverty |
| Author: | Cunningham, Tony |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Issue: | 145 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Carnegie conference paper |
| City of publisher: | Cape Town |
| Publisher: | SALDRU, School of economics, University of Cape Town |
| ISBN: | 0799206954 |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | natural resources plants botany |
| Abstract: | This study attempts to evaluate the resaource value of indigenous plants to rural people on the Maputaland coastal plain, a low potential area in the Igwavuma district. Availability of plants provides a buffer against drougth, seasonal famine, and unemployment. Sale of palm-wine, reeds and craft-work provides a source of income. Fruits (71 species) and spinaches (27 species) provide vitamines deficient in starchy staple foods. Many species are used in hut-building, fencing and for firewood. |