Sustainable rural livelihoods? Evaluating the potential of small‐scale aquaculture in the Western Cape

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• Respectively, Coordinator and Lecturer, Enviro Unit, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town. We wish to thank the community of De Doorns for their assistance and participation, as well as our student assistant for her help with the fieldwork. We would like to acknowledge the Oppenheimer Institute for African Studies for assisting in funding the research, and the Rural Foundation and Department of Agriculture for their assistance and for involving us in this project. Thank you to my supervisor cum co‐author, Dr Belinda Dodson, for her support, advice and input into this research.
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