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The Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve is a 100 km long coastal stretch of towering mountains and craggy beaches about an hour’s drive east of Cape Town. The dramatic landscape, rare botanical diversity and…
15 December 2015 | Research Brief | South AfricaThis paper uses a bioeconomic model to analyse wildlife conservation in two habitats adjacent to a national park by two types of communities in the context of Southern Africa. One community is made up…
16 November 2015 | EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaExtant literature on Joint Forest Management (JFM) impact evaluation has concluded that it generally does not provide sufficient incentives to justify the costs that forest use restrictions impose on…
16 November 2015 | EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaThis study used a sample of 336 households and community-level data from 30 communities around Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe to analyse the association between institutions and cooperation…
16 November 2015 | EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaEven though antiretroviral treatment is becoming more efficient and available, new HIV infections still occur, and this is particularly evident in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Heterosexual…
29 September 2015 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa, TanzaniaThis paper examines the impact of agriculture-related shocks on consumption patterns of rural farming households using 3 years of data from South Africa. We make two key observations. First…
29 September 2015 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa, TanzaniaThis paper demonstrates the importance of wildlife in the portfolio of environmental income in the livelihoods of poor rural communities living adjacent to a national park. The results show that…
20 August 2015 | EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaClimate and weather variability in sub-Saharan Africa disproportionately leave female-headed households food insecure. However, the extent and reasons for these gender differences are, thus far, not…
20 August 2015 | EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaThis study examines the role of gender of the head of household on the food security of small-scale subsistence farmers in urban and rural areas of South Africa, using the exogenous switching…
16 July 2015 | Discussion Paper | South AfricaIn this article we present results from the Cape Area Panel Study investigating how income comparisons affect the subjective well-being of young adults and parents. The article builds on previous…
16 July 2015 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa