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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA)
2003-12-01
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Series: | ORiON |
Online Access: | http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/472 |