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- Library Collection RecordThe South African government, as part of its efforts to mitigate the effects of the ongoing energy crisis, has proposed that biofuels should form an important part of the country's energy supply…Publication Date 2011
- biodiversity
- Alien invasive species
- land use
- management
- policies
- biofuels
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper is a first step towards a conservation plan for the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve (K2C) on the South African Central Lowveld, quantifying the historical land-cover trends (1993 2006…Publication Date 2010
- Central Lowveld
- conservation planning
- development
- land-use change
- conservation
- management
- land use
- rangeland
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis book contains a compilation of offered papers presented at the main congress of the XX International Grassland Congress held in University College Dublin, Ireland from 26 June to 1 July, 2005.…Publication Date 2005
- fire ecology
- sustainability
- grasslands
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordOver the past half-century, agricultural production gains have provided a platform for rural and urban economic growth worldwide. In African countries, however, agriculture has been widely assumed to…Publication Date 2011
- farming
- scaling-up
- Social capital
- sustainable intensification
- Sustainable development
- soil conservation
- soils
- sustainability
- conservation
- agriculture
- policies
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTef, Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter, is the main Ethiopian cereal grown on 2.5 million ha annually, and serving as a staple food grain for more than 50 million people. The major constraints in tef…Publication Date 2011
- seed
- management
- dissemination
- innovation
- Quncho
- seed system
- tef Introduction
- pasture seed
- Ethiopia
- pastures
- Ethiopia
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere are few tests of the predicted decline of secondary productivity in desertified rangelands, despite this being one of the major concerns around desertification. Subtropical thicket, largely…Publication Date 2009
- body growth
- fleece production
- rangelands
- veld degradation
- animal production
- goats
- degradation
- rainfall
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPrimary energy extraction patterns by livestock under agropastoralism and ranching were investigated by the bite count method in semiarid south-eastern Kenya. Sward biomass for optimal energy intake…Publication Date 2009
- agropastoralism
- energy intake
- ranching
- livestock
- cattle
- sheep
- goats
- pastoralism
- diet selection
- grazing
- management
- animal production
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSmallholder dairy farmers in Natural Region II, especially in Chikwaka Communal Area, adopted Acacia angustissima, Calliandra calothyrsus and Leucaena leucocephala in the 1995/96 season as…Publication Date 2009
- dairy
- Fodder
- small-holder
- Tree
- yields
- plant production
- communal farming
- animal nutrition
- forage quality
- fodder production
- soils
- management
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAnalysis of a Landsat TM image from a rangeland near Peddie, Eastern Cape, revealed differences in two vegetation indices (normalised difference vegetation index, NDVI, and moving standard deviation…Publication Date 1999
- land use
- management
- remote sensing
- Landsat images
- rangeland condition
- subsistence agriculture
- commercial agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBush encroachment has been recognised in southern Africa since the late nineteenth century. Our review of 23 studies showed that the rate of woody cover change has ranged from ?0.131 to 1.275% y?1.…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- ecosystem ecology
- grazing
- fire
- rainfall
- grasses
- carbon dioxide
- climate change
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn easily readable and coherent account, this book has a definite role on the shelf (and its outline content in the minds) of conservation decision-makers and advisors. When I started out as an…Publication Date 2014
- management
- decision support systemes
- natural resources
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordWoody plant encroachment is frequent in dry savannas. Grazing is often considered to be a major cause of encroachment in dry savannas because grasses are removed by livestock, leaving bare areas for…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- savanna
- grazing
- fire
- rainfall
- climate change
- management
- Kimberley area
- Northern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordUsing an analysis of aerial photographs from 1942, 1985 and 2004 we assessed the impact of changing land tenure and land-use regimes on the cover of thicket vegetation on the Grahamstown commonage.…Publication Date 2014
- bush encroahcment
- land use
- management
- Aerial Photographs
- goats
- browsing
- livestock
- grazing
- grasses
- shrubs
- degradation
- Grahamstown
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPoor irrigation management in pastures can lead to yield and quality reduction as well as loss of income through extra pumping and leaching of nitrate fertiliser. A number of irrigation scheduling…Publication Date 2014
- irrigation
- management
- pastures
- fertiliser
- plant production
- weather
- Ryegrass
- soil water
- plant production
- water dynamics
- nutrients
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the Mopane Bushveld, Colophospermum mopane is viewed as a threat due to its ability to suppress the herbaceous layer. The objective of this study was to investigate the re-establishment of C.…Publication Date 2014
- Bush encroachment
- restoration ecology
- savanna
- management
- fodder production
- browsing
- soil nutrients
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFew assessments of the effects of fire and grazing on the herbaceous components of savannas have been reported for Africa. In the Kruger National Park, South Africa, range condition was monitored at…Publication Date 2014
- fire ecology
- grazing
- management
- savanna
- game
- rangeland condition
- rainfall gradient
- grasses
- forage
- ecosystem ecology
- Kruger National Park
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordBrowsing herbivores are generally highly selective feeders, selecting for new shoots and young plant material. Determinations of browser carrying capacity are then greatly inflated when based on…Publication Date 2014
- savanna
- browsing
- grazing
- game
- wildlife
- conservation
- carrying capacity
- climate
- soil
- rainfall
- modelling
- plant production
- management
- Zululand region
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordClimate change is expected to adversely affect agriculture in South Africa. A rise in variable and unfavourable conditions is likely to surpass the limits of current coping mechanisms of farmers,…Publication Date 2014
- climate change
- agriculture
- livestock
- Karoo
- rangelands
- Subsistence farming
- communal farming
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe present study assessed the effects of deferred grazing management on rangeland condition using aboveground biomass, vegetation cover and species composition as indicators of range condition. The…Publication Date 2013
- grazing
- vegetation
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- rangeland
- biomass
- grazing management
- ngitili
- species diversity
- vegetation cover
- Shinyanga
- Meatu districts
- Tanzania
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn the savanna rangelands of southern Africa, the debate about land reform tends to be about the redistribution of formerly freehold ranches and fencing-off the rangeland commons into ranches for…Publication Date 2013
- savanna
- rangelands
- management
- land reform
- communal farming
- sustainability
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordWildfires can have significant impacts on rangeland productivity and functionality causing substantial economic losses to affected farmers. In August 2011, such wildfires swept through the North West…Publication Date 2013
- fire ecology
- rangelands
- plant production
- management
- grazing
- socio-economic aspects
- biodiversity
- savanna
- rainfall
- grazing capacity
- erosion
- ecosystem ecology
- soil nutrients
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper aims to contribute to the debates on communal rangelands and analyses the gendered dimension of land rights and land access in the rural areas of Namaqualand. The actual gender relations…Publication Date 2013
- communal rangelands
- Land rights
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- rural women
- management
- Namaqualand
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper critiques Vetter's (in this issue) assertion that commercialisation of smallholder agriculture holds dangers for sustainable rangeland management. The paper argues that a range of…Publication Date 2013
- sustainability
- communal farming
- subsistence agriculture
- rangelands
- management
- policy
- smallholder farming
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn this paper the use of fenced grazing camps to manage the rangeland commons is challenged. A historical perspective is presented on fencing and rotational grazing in South Africa. Two case studies…Publication Date 2013
- grazing
- management
- communal agriculture
- rangelands
- fending
- Commercial farming
- land tenure
- socio-economic aspects
- biodiversity
- Sustainable development
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPastoralists in Namaqualand, South Africa, use herd mobility to manage livestock and rangeland resources. However, their socioeconomic conditions and ecological landscapes are changing and we explore…Publication Date 2013
- management
- livestock
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- communal farming
- policy
- pastoralism
- grazing
- Namaqualand
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordMany of the intransigent problems facing the world arise in complex systems. In this paper, I propose that communal rangelands in South Africa be recognised as complex social-ecological systems and…Publication Date 2013
- communal farming
- rangelands
- socio-economic aspects
- Sustainable development
- climate change
- policy
- management
- modelling
- subsistence agriculture
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn South Africa, the relative extent of range degradation under freehold compared to communal tenure has been strongly debated. We present a perspective on the processes that drive rangeland…Publication Date 2013
- rangeland
- degradation
- communal farming
- management
- policy
- rehabilitation
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is a common perception in South Africa that the youth are not interested in agriculture, leading to two concerns: first, that this is exacerbating the youth unemployment crisis, and second,…Publication Date 2013
- agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- rural areas
- animal production
- Plant Productivity
- policy
- livestock
- communal rangelands
- cattle
- goats
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe creation of local institutions with a mandate over land access and control is seen as a prerequisite for successful decentralisation of land tenure and effective local resource management in sub-…Publication Date 2013
- land tenure
- management
- policy
- rangelands
- communal agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper was prepared in response to a paper prepared by Vetter (in this issue) that addressed the issue of policy development related to sustainable management of rangelands. In line with the…Publication Date 2013
- policy
- Sustainable development
- management
- subsistence agriculture
- rangelands
- livestock
- agriculture
- animal productivity
- Plant Productivity
- Msinga
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper complements Vetter's position paper, "Development and sustainable management of rangeland commons - aligning policy with the realities of South Africa's rural landscape…Publication Date 2013
- Sustainable development
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- rural areas
- subsistence agriculture
- livestock
- management
- policy
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordLand and agrarian reform has the potential to expand South Africa's rangeland commons and enhance their contribution to the livelihoods of the rural poor, yet to a large extent this has been an…Publication Date 2013
- rangeland
- Communal areas
- land reform
- subsistence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- Commercial farming
- agriculture
- Poverty
- livestock
- animal production
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordLivestock farming in communal areas is an activity pursued by rural households as one of a range of livelihood strategies aimed at spreading risk. The cash and non-cash benefits derived from…Publication Date 2013
- communal farming
- rural areas
- subsistence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- policy
- management
- livestock production
- Poverty
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper agrees with three fundamental points raised by Vetter (in this issue), whilst highlighting an emerging trend in wildlife land use, which should be considered in policy making. Firstly, the…Publication Date 2013
- game animals
- policies
- communal rangelands
- subsistence agriculture
- biodiversity
- conservation
- Poverty
- livastock
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPolicy affecting the rangeland commons in South Africa has been based largely on management models developed for large-scale commercial farming. This paper examines the current policy situation and…Publication Date 2013
- policy
- socio-economic aspects
- rangelands
- Communal areas
- management
- Sustainable development
- agriculture
- livestock
- Tenure
- legislation
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Roggeveld consists of an island of Mountain Renosterveld (Fynbos biome) surrounded by Succulent Karoo biome vegetation. Since management of abandoned croplands depends on a better understanding…Publication Date 2011
- diversity indices
- Fynbos biome
- old fields
- species richness
- Succulent Karoo biome
- management
- Abandoned lands
- restoration ecology
- Roggeveld
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe assessed the impact of Prosopis invasion and clearing on the grazing capacity of heavily grazed Nama Karoo rangeland in the Beaufort West district of the Western Cape province of South Africa.…Publication Date 2011
- exotic invasive plants
- management
- natural resources
- rangeland condition
- rehabilitation
- alien invasive plants
- grazing
- plant production
- forage quality
- Forage Quantity
- Nama Karoo
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordFire is a key driver in shaping and maintaining grasslands. Long-term exclusion of fire in moist grasslands has been attempted at Catchment IX (CIX) at Cathedral Peak since 1952. Vegetation was…Publication Date 2011
- Erica evansii
- Leucosidea sericea
- moist grasslands
- tree mortality
- fire ecology
- grasslands
- management
- species diversity
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordInteractions between mature grass plants and grass seedlings have been found to be both facilitative and competitive. To examine the effects of aboveground and belowground competition on seedling…Publication Date 2011
- competition
- grass seedling
- soil depth
- seedlings
- grasslands
- plant production
- siol depth
- plant autecology
- grazing
- stocking rates
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordMean annual soil respiration correlates with net primary productivity and therefore provides an indication of ecosystem functioning. Soil respiration, however, varies considerably in space and time…Publication Date 2011
- carbon dioxide
- overstocking
- rangeland management
- soil temperature
- ecosystem ecology
- soil nutrients
- soil water
- rangelands
- management
- stocking rates
- Nama Karoo
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis study investigated the seasonal and plant species patterns of short-term intake rate (STIR) by Nguni goats fed six common browse species in subhumid subtropical savannas. Six 2-year-old…Publication Date 2011
- browser
- conditioning
- feeding behaviour
- herbivore
- intake rate
- goats
- Fodder
- diet selection
- foraging ecology
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordInvasive species in Africa have important impacts on food security and biodiversity conservation. African floodplains in arid areas are critical wildlife habitats in addition to crop production and…Publication Date 2011
- dispersers
- habitat
- shifting cultivation
- wildlife
- Alien invasive species
- seeds
- seedlings
- livestock
- game
- conservation
- old lands
- ecosystem ecology
- Tana River
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordLablab purpureus is a multipurpose legume with potential as a vegetable, pulse or forage crop for smallholder farming systems of southern Africa. Its use in the region is limited because the long-…Publication Date 2011
- lablab
- Limpopo Province
- multipurpose crop
- short duration
- forage quality
- Forage Quantity
- livestock
- agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- seeds
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPatch-mosaic burning (PMB) is commonly advocated to create a mosaic of fire regimes that is believed to be more beneficial for maintaining biodiversity than the relatively homogeneous environment…Publication Date 2010
- conservation areas
- fire ecology
- geographic information systems
- landscape ecology
- biodiversity
- management
- GIS
- Mkuzi Game Reserve
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn spite of predictions of communal rangeland collapse due to continuous grazing and increased livestock populations, this grazing system remains prevalent in communal areas, suggesting animals…Publication Date 2010
- cattle
- Graze
- key resource areas
- livestock
- communal farming
- rangelands
- grazing
- plant production
- soils
- soil organic carbon
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordPredicting the effect of different management strategies on range condition is a challenge for farmers in highly variable environments. A model that explains how the relations between rainfall,…Publication Date 2010
- catastrophe theory
- complexity theory
- Disequilibrium
- hysteresis
- moving attractors
- vegetation dynamics
- livestock
- rainfall
- rangelands
- mangement
- rangeland condition
- modelling
- ecosystem ecology
- stocking rate
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe carried out a trial in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park comparing three herbicides and two manual control techniques for controlling the annual weed Parthenium hysterophorus L. The herbicides 2,4-D…Publication Date 2010
- control
- forbs
- grasses
- Herbicide
- impact
- manual weeding
- Alien invasive species
- Weeds
- management
- restoration ecology
- South America
- Library Collection RecordSeed ecology may play a role in the widespread increase of Acacia karroo in savanna and grassland. Accordingly, fecundity, predation, mortality by fire, dispersal by livestock, and seed longevity…Publication Date 2010
- dispersal
- fire
- seed bank
- seed lngevity
- seed predation
- seed production
- ecology
- savanna
- grassland
- livestock
- insects
- germination
- cattle
- sheep
- goats
- management
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe relative benefit of different grazing management practices for maintaining grassland biodiversity integrity was assessed. Practices considered were grazing system, stocking rate, animal type,…Publication Date 2010
- analytic heirarchy process
- plant diversity
- stocking rate
- veld condition assessment
- grazing
- management
- biodiversity
- fire
- cattle
- sheep
- Impact assessment
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordProductivity and mortality of grass plants following drought may be controlled by interactions between defoliation and severity of the drought. Prudent grassland management might mitigate deleterious…Publication Date 2010
- fodder production
- rehabilitation
- tradeoff
- water stress
- drought
- grazing
- grasslands
- management
- plant production
- KwaZulu-Natal
- South Africa