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Women and technology in the marginalized rural communities : case studies from Kwazulu-Natal.
(2004)
Generally, rural women have lesser access to technologies that are vital in progressing
with their tasks due to gender dimensions linked to patriarchy that were perpetuated by
apartheid, which promoted male migration and ...
An institutional analysis of South Africa's new cooperative act : evidence from selected case studies in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2010)
Cooperatives are a means through which farmers may gain economic power by reducing unit transaction costs associated with production, marketing and distribution of products. In South Africa, cooperatives are promoted as a ...
Rangeland degradation assessment using remote sensing and vegetation species.
(2011)
The degradation of rangeland grass is currently one of the most serious environmental problems in South Africa. Increaser and decreaser grass species have been used as indicators to evaluate rangeland condition. Therefore, ...
Genetic studies on drought tolerance and grain shattering in rice.
(2010)
Grain yield of rice can be enhanced by breeding for drought tolerance and optimum shattering. New generations of rice, the interspecific fixed lines known to carry more drought tolerance traits, are a potential source for ...
The impacts of woody invasive alien plants on stream hydrogeomorphology in small headwater streams of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2010)
South Africa has a long history of problems with invasive alien species. In an assessment of alien invading plants and water resources in South Africa Versveld et al. (1998) estimated that Invasive Alien Plants (IAPs) in ...
The fate of non-limiting solutes and the processes of solute retention in the uMkhuze Wetland system, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2008)
Wetlands have long been recognised as enhancing the quality of inflowing waters, particularly regarding the plant macronutrients nitrogen and phosphorus. Any research into non-limiting solutes has largely been of a 'black ...
The evaluation of pressure distribution and bulk density models for infield agriculture and forestry traffic.
(2006)
There is evidence that soil compaction, through the use of mechanised equipment, causes detrimental effects to soil quality and reduces long-term productivity of soils. For economic reasons, farmers need to purchase larger, ...
The estimation of Eucalyptus plantation forest structural attributes using medium and high spatial resolution satellite imagery.
(2008)
Sustaining the socioeconomic and ecological benefits of South African plantation forests is challenging. A more systematic and rapid forest inventory system is required by forest managers. This study investigates the utility ...
An integrated sugarcane supply chain model : development and demonstration.
(2006)
The South African sugar industry is a large industry which relies on expensive capital equipment to harvest, transport and process sugarcane. An average of 23 million tons of sugarcane are annually supplied to 14 mills ...
Improving end to end delivery of land administration business processes through performance measurement and comparison.
(2010)
The delivery of land administration (LA) systems particularly in urban areas underpins housing, industry and infrastructure development as well as the smooth operation of land and credit markets. However, fragmentation of ...