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    Rural agriculture and youth empowerment: perspectives of the youth and community members in Centane, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
    (University of Fort Hare, 2014-01-27) Mkra, Zuzeka Prudence
    The study explores youth perspectives regarding their participation in agriculture and its future in Centane, a rural community in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The study examines, firstly, the extent to which the assumption that youth lack interest in agriculture is evident in the study community. Secondly, it explores the extent to which youth involvement or the lack thereof defines the future of agriculture in the study community. The third research concern is the extent to which the relevant state-led agricultural policies support youth involvement in rural agriculture.
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    Titanium mining and social displacement in rural Kenya: An ethno-ecological study of Kwale community,Coal Province
    (University of Fort Hare, 2012-01) Abuya, Willice Onyango
    The literature on community-mining enterprise conflict is currently dominated by discourses on equity, compensation, land ownership and environmental degradation. The present study examines this conflict from an ethno-ecological perspective, bringing into focus the meanings that communities attach to "nature" and cultural artefacts. The study examines how such meanings intersect with local experiences of social displacement, compensation and resource extraction, and how they mediate and catalyse the witnessed conflict. The study was conducted among the indigenes of titanium-rich Kwale, in Kenya's Coast Province, displaced in 2007 to make way for large-scale titanium mining operations.