[OSGeo Africa] Looking for crop production data for the Eastern Cape per municipality

Wed Jan 23 01:16:27 PST 2013

I work for the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), one of the 15 institutes of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR). We do research and my institute specialises on the importance/use of water in agriculture. We are accredited to the SA government and have a diplomatic status as we are an international organisation (you can visit our website at www.iwmi.org ). The IWMI regional office in Pretoria (housed at the ARC offices in Silverton) does research in the SADC region.
The data I requested is purely for research purposes. We are doing a similar study for the whole of SADC (you can visit www.resakss.org/) But the data we have is at national level.
I know the data is there somewhere. I have been receiving some helpful responses from members of the forum (to my personal email address). I provided my personal email address in my original correspondence,  I therefore suggest that if members have personal questions send such to private emails not to the whole group because we end up scaring other members. Data may be classified or may not be available for free but this can be said openly.

Luxon

-----Original Message-----
From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Sent: 23 January 2013 10:20 AM
To: Africa local chapter discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Looking for crop production data for the Eastern Cape per municipality

    No Offence -- but -- has the OP been to the Eastern Cape within whose 
    boundaries the old Transkei / Ciskei are contained ? Does he have any 
    idea of the import of his "simple" request ?

    May we ask what the information is needed for ?

    In that old bantustan agriculture was run on a communal self-subsistence 
    level. I very much doubt if any records were kept of what could have been 
    very little or no crop production -- in an agricultural sense. I remember 
    thousands and thousands of plastic bags decorating the fences alongside 
    the road. There was a commercial crop but one would have to check with 
    the guys down Lusikisiki way and the "Hippies" at Port St Johns. I wonder 
    if any of the old Bantustan depts would have kept records ? If they did 
    where would these be now ?

    There well may be records for the "other" parts of the Eastern Cape where 
    commercial ariculture was carried out.

    I would think that in these areas there would have been Farmers 
    organisations and probabaly a formal agricultural dept -- which quite 
    possibly did keep records. Eastern Cape Farmers Association -- or 
    something similar -- AgriSA  ( the "enemy" )

    You may have better luck with the people at PLAAS at UWC

    http://www.plaas.org.za

    ( IF I am not mistaken one of their opening page images is of the Eastern 
    Cape ? )

    For some background you could read Beinert , Bundy , Bunting , Trapido , 
    Delius.

    African Studies Centre Oxford

    Centre for African Studies UCT

    I could find all the info for you -- but who is going to pay for my time 
    ?

    CM

On 23 Jan 2013 at 9:22, Solly Vuso wrote:

> are you aware that 98% of land in the EC is owned by communities and 
> private farms , am trying to come up with the solution on how you can 
> get this information but for now nothing comes out of my mind, may be 
> if you can try AgriSA
> 
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Nhamo, Luxon (IWMI-South Africa) < 
> L.Nhamo at cgiar.org> wrote:
> 
> >  By crop production I am referring to acreage, area harvested and yield.
> >  *
> > ***
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> > *From:* africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> > africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Solly Vuso
> > *Sent:* 23 January 2013 09:04 AM
> >
> > *To:* Africa local chapter discussions
> > *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo Africa] Looking for crop production data for 
> > the Eastern Cape per municipality****
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> > ** **
> >
> > Ho****
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> > What do u mean by crop production ****
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Nhamo, Luxon (IWMI-South Africa) < 
> > L.Nhamo at cgiar.org> wrote:****
> >
> > Dear all****
> >
> >  ****
> >
> > I am looking for crop production data per annum per municipality of 
> > the Eastern Cape for the past 20-30years in time series. Does anyone 
> > know where I can get this data?****
> >
> >  ****
> >
> > Regards,****
> >
> >  ****
> >
> > *Luxon T. Nhamo** **(PhD)*****
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> > Solly Vuso
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> 
> Solly Vuso
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> Fax:086 555 1270
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> I may not know what tomorrow holds for me but I do know who holds ma 
> tomorrow.....
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