Conservation versus traditional cattle farming - the economic implications

In many areas of South Africa traditional subsistence farming practices entail overstocking of cattle. The resulting damage to the veld can be arrested only by providing the farmers with economic incentives to reduce stocking densities. In this paper cattle offtake strategies are investigated with a...

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Main Authors: J.W. Hearne, P.W. Uys
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) 2003-12-01
Series:ORiON
Online Access:http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/472