Diversity and determinants of traditional water conservation technologies in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

ABSTRACT: Water scarcity remains a major threat to most rural areas in Africa due to heavy reliance on rainfed agriculture. This prompts the need to document and understand the determinants of traditional knowledge of water conservation practices. Our aim here is to document and identify the determinants of people's knowledge of traditional knowledge of water conservation in the South Africa's Eastern Cape province. A mixed research method was used. Purposive approach was used to collect data, i.e., elderly people were targeted during the face-to-face pre-COVID-19 pandemic interviews on the basis that traditional knowledge increases with age. However, people of different age groups were also included in the study especially when we employed only online questionnaire during the pandemic. We used ques

SUBMITTER: Fanteso B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9035209 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature