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| Petersen, L. M.; University of Queensland, Australia; Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation, South Africa; Leif.petersen@livelihoods.org.za; Moll, E. J.; Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, South Africa;; Collins, R.; School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia;; Hockings, Marc T.; Department of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland, Australia; m.hockings@uq.edu.au. |
| Wild harvesting has taken place over millennia in Africa. However urbanization and cash economies have effectively altered harvesting from being cultural, traditional, and subsistence activities that are part of a rural norm, to being a subculture of commonly illicit activities located primarily within the urban, cash-based, informal economy. This paper focuses on Cape Town, South Africa where high levels of poverty and extensive population growth have led to a rapidly growing informal industry based on the cultural, subsistence, and entrepreneurial harvesting and consumption of products obtained from the local natural environment. Through a process of literature reviews, database analysis, and key informant interviews, a compendium of harvested species... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Cape Town South Africa; Cash-based economy; Compendium; Conservation; Illicit harvesting; Informal economy; Urbanization; Wild harvesting; Wild harvest trade. |
| Ano: 2012 |
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