VEGETABLES

Hart, T. (2010) Some considerations for supporting household food production in South Africa. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:78-95.

Recent research on food security in South Africa indicates that household food production is important to household food security in rural areas. While this highlights the constraints experienced by such producers and the contribution of African leafy vegetables to household food security, seemingly little research has considered the gender dimension of this type of agricultural production. Wit...

Hart, T., Vorster, I. & Jansen van Rensburg, W. (2009) Indigenous knowledge and African vegatables. In: National Research Directory. Johannesburg: Rainbow South Africa. 209-214.

Indigenous Knowledge (IK) is the unique, traditional, local knowledge existing within and developed around specific conditions of women and men indigenous to a particular geographic area. In some instances external or scientific knowledge is combined with indigenous knowledge during the innovation process. Consequently indigenous knowledge is dynamic and continually evolves and changes as it d...

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Hart, T. (2006) Synergy of science and tradition can yield improved nutrition. HSRC review. 4(4):14-15.

A study of two villages in the Mopane district of Limpopo has shown that indigenous knowledge integrated with scientific know-how can optimise agricultural production and help alleviate poverty in agrarian households. TIM HART and INEKE VORSTER compiled a valuable record of indigenous (or local) knowledge relating to the production of African vegetable crops.

Hart, T. (2005) African vegetables and rural livelihoods. (June).

Hart, T. (2005) Local innovations using traditional vegetables to improve soil quality. IK notes. 79:1-4.

Hart, T.G.B. (2011) The significance of African vegetables in ensuring food security for South Africa's rural poor. Agriculture and Human Values. 28(3):321-333.

Technologies and services provided to resource-poor farmers need to be relevant and compatible with the context in which they operate. This paper examines the contribution of extension services to the food security of resource-poor farmers in a rural village in South Africa. It considers these in terms of the local context and the production of African vegetables in household food plots. A mixt...

Hart, T.G.B. (2007) Local knowledge and agricultural applications: lessons from a Ugandan parish. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension. 36:229-248.

A multidisciplinary team of agricultural researchers worked with residents of a rural parish in south-western Uganda to generate local knowledge about the diverse use of plants identified as African vegetables. While some were sold at the commercial fresh produce market in Kampala most were cultivated for household consumption. Some plants had properties which, when planted in specific ways, ...

Jemmott, J.B., Jemmott, L.S., Leary, A.O., Ngwane, Z., Icard, L., Bellamy, S., Jones, S., Landis, J.R., Heeren, G.A., Tyler, J.C. & Makiwane, M.B. (2011) Cognitive-behavioural health-promotion intervention increases fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity among South African adolescents: a cluster-randomised controlled trial. Psychology & Health. 26(2):167-185.

Rates of chronic diseases are high among Black South Africans but few studies have tested cognitive-behavioural health-promotion interventions to reduce this problem. We tested the efficacy of such an intervention among adolescents in a cluster-randomised controlled trial. We randomly selected 9 of 17 matched pairs of schools and randomised one school in each pair to the cognitive-behavioural h...

Peltzer, K. & Pengpid, S. (2010) Fruits and vegetables consumption and associated factors among in-school adolescents in seven African countries. International Journal of Public Health. September:Online.

Objectives: To present data on fruits and vegetables consumption and associated factors among African in-school adolescents. Methods Data were collected by self-report questionnaire from nationally representative samples (total 17,656) of school children aged 13-15 years in seven African countries. Results Thirty-six percent (36%) and 23% of 13-15-year-old boys and 32.6 and 22.3% of the 13-15-...