Beatrice is involved in several outreach projects that assist local communities with urban agriculture and other attempts to improve sustainable livelihoods in poor communities. So far this work has produced two journal articles and seven working papers on topics ranging from small scale bee keeping, to wildflower harvesting, veg box subscription schemes and township recycling. The importance of this work is that it links academic research to the needs of the local community in a meaningful way and reduces poverty in our own locality.
Nicoli Nattrass and Jed Stephens are running a survey of the socio-economic and spatial determinants of rodent presence and eradication strategies in Khayelitsha in conjunction with iCWild.
Working papers
Odendaal, R, Morar, J., Conradie, B. (2013). A cost benefit analysis of a technology bundle aimed at improving the resilience of urban households in Rocklands Mitchells Plain. CSSR working paper 332, www.cssr.uct.ac.za/cssr/pub/wp/332.
Thom, A.E., Conradie, B.I., (2012). Promoting urban agriculture for development: Suggestions for designing the ‘ideal’ social enterprise box scheme in Cape Town. CSSR working paper 316, www.cssr.uct.ac.za/cssr/pub/wp/316.
Knoesen, H., Conradie, B. (2009) Is ecological sustainability financially sustainable?: The case of Flower Valley Farm on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa. www.flowervalley.co.za
Conradie, B., Knoesen, H. (2009) A survey of the cultivation and wild harvesting of fynbos in South Africa. Report to the Protea Producers of South Africa www.flowervalley.co.za
Dyer, M., Mills, R., Conradie, B., Piesse, J. (2015). Harvest of Hope: The contribution of peri-urban agriculture in South African townships. Agrekon 54(4): 71-84.
