Forest Products, Livelihoods and Conservation

246 Palm utilisation for basketry in Xini Ward, Sengwe communal areas, Zimbabwe droughts and developments in the tourism sector, ...

Phosiso Sola 247 Distribution and growth H. petersiana is found in most southern African countries (Figure 1) on alkaline, salin ...

248 Palm utilisation for basketry in Xini Ward, Sengwe communal areas, Zimbabwe Once the stem is more than 1.5 m tall the palm i ...

Phosiso Sola 249 The mean annual temperature is 24.4°C, while mean maximum and mean minimum temperatures are 32.3°^ C and 16.5°C ...

250 Palm utilisation for basketry in Xini Ward, Sengwe communal areas, Zimbabwe THE PRODUCTION-TO-CONSUMPTION SYSTEM Resource ba ...

Phosiso Sola 251 Craft production depends heavily on the rate of leaf production and on the growth rate of new leaves. Leaf prod ...

252 Palm utilisation for basketry in Xini Ward, Sengwe communal areas, Zimbabwe Table 1. Status of the H. petersiana population ...

Phosiso Sola 253 Craft production Approximately 93% of all the community members have at one time or another participated in pal ...

254 Palm utilisation for basketry in Xini Ward, Sengwe communal areas, Zimbabwe accounted for 20.5%, the average annual income o ...

Phosiso Sola 255 Item Fruit Shopping Winnowing basket basket basket Part used Unopened Unopened Unopened leaf leaf leaf Length o ...

256 Palm utilisation for basketry in Xini Ward, Sengwe communal areas, Zimbabwe The characteristics of trade and marketing syste ...

Phosiso Sola 257 Figure 4. The Xini basketry products trade chain 14PALM.P65 257 22/12/2004, 11:05 ...

258 Palm utilisation for basketry in Xini Ward, Sengwe communal areas, Zimbabwe Policy framework Government regulations influenc ...

Phosiso Sola 259 Regulation Main Theme and Provision Forest Act Provides mandates for the Forestry Commission as a forestry aut ...

260 Palm utilisation for basketry in Xini Ward, Sengwe communal areas, Zimbabwe Palm utilisation regimes in Xini have shown that ...

Phosiso Sola 261 acceptance and stability between the major groups, the Ndebele and the Shangaan. This social regrouping did not ...

262 Palm utilisation for basketry in Xini Ward, Sengwe communal areas, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe, Harare. Fanshawe D.B. 1967 The vegetab ...

Chapter 15 The rattan industry in the Ashanti and Western regions of Ghana Charles Adu-Anning^1 ABSTRACT This chapter presents t ...

264 The rattan industry in the Ashanti and Western regions of Ghana Holbech unpublished; Tabi-Gyansah 2001). The industry relies ...

Charles Adu-Anning 265 Figure 1. Map of the study area Source: ESRI Data and Maps 2002. on rattan exploitation. The discussion w ...