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- Library Collection RecordA hybrid approach comprising literature review, field investigation and interpretation of multi-date panchromatic aerial photographs at the 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 scales over four time slices between…Publication Date 2005
- population density
- Environmental deterioration
- Long-term trends
- remote sensing
- Aerial Photographs
- socio-economic aspects
- erosion
- degradation
- rangeland condition
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn investigation into the spread of two alien wattle species (Acacia mearnsii and Acacia dealbata) in rural parts of the Drakensberg region of South Africa and the importance of the trees to the…Publication Date 2005
- Acacia
- Green manure
- land management
- trees
- encroachment
- invasive plants
- socio-economic aspects
- medicinal plants
- management
- Poverty
- upliftment projects
- sustainability
- landscape ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordProduction-oriented research in the second half of the 20th century made impressive contributions to technical developments which helped to meet the food requirements of an expanding world population…Publication Date 2005
- Grassland science
- research priorities
- Tertiary education
- Agro-ecology
- environment
- grasslands
- management
- land use
- biodiversity
- conservation
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the melding of two discourses in southeastern Zimbabwe: land reform and wildlife management. The former seeks to redistribute large, [`]under-utilized' landholdings to…Publication Date 2004
- Zimbabwe
- wildlife management
- land reform
- Campfire
- political ecology
- Lowveld
- Community based natural resource management
- management
- conservation
- land use
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- wildlife
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper investigates the ways in which national and regional policies relate to farming activities and concerns amongst the rural population in an area of southern Africa. The struggle to make a…Publication Date 2004
- Smallholder agriculture
- Rural livelihoods
- drylands
- diversification
- southern Africa
- policies
- subsistence agriculture
- rural areas
- socio-economic aspects
- Poverty
- land use
- land reform
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordBiodiversity conservation is a challenge within developing regions of the world. Landscape heterogeneity is largely directed by interconnected economic and social systems, which are largely driven by…Publication Date 2004
- Avian richness
- Habitat proportion
- KwaZulu-Natal
- land-use
- Landscape metric pattern
- multiple regression
- Socio-economic development
- southern Africa
- biodiversity
- conservation
- ecosystem ecology
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe participation of local people in projects involving secondary forest resource use in developing countries is examined. Methods and approaches used by research and community development workers…Publication Date 2003
- Hierarchical valuation scheme
- inventories
- participatory rural appraisal
- principal component analysis
- Secondary forest resources
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe paper analyses land use trajectories in savannah woodlands in the Central-West Region, Burkina Faso and the Upper East Region in northern Ghana by use of satellite images and historical archives…Publication Date 2003
- deforestation
- remote sensing
- Colonial history
- Land cover changes
- Ghana
- Burkina Faso
- socio-economic aspects
- land-use
- legislation
- ecosystem ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSouth Africa is rich in biological diversity, but measures to conserve this heritage are under-funded and are of relatively low priority at national level. Part of the problem is that the social…Publication Date 2003
- Value of biodiversity
- contingent valuation
- Fynbos
- climate change
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe monetary value of natural resources used by rural communities for subsistence is important when addressing issues affecting the livelihoods of impoverished rural households. There is therefore…Publication Date 2003
- Direct-use value
- food security
- Livelihoods
- Mixed cropping
- Smallholder farms
- subsistence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- Poverty
- rural areas
- policies
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEast Africa contains areas with some of the greatest large mammal biodiversity on the planet. These areas are key natural resources for the economic development of the region. They are also key areas…Publication Date 2003
- Agro-pastoralism
- savanna
- simulation
- Dietary energy
- cash flow
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- pastoralism
- cattle
- game farming
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- ecosystem dynamics
- modelling
- household income studies
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper draws on recent empirical studies of changing land and water use in semi-arid Africa to identify socioeconomic and political dynamics and discusses their implications for current policy…Publication Date 2003
- Decentralization
- land tenure
- Mali
- Kenya
- Botswana
- South Africa
- land reform
- land use
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- policies
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines variation in local perceptions of risk in semi-arid Tanzania, identifying factors that influence local perceptions of problems and testing the feasibility of risk mapping as a…Publication Date 2003
- Africa
- agriculture
- Gender
- pastoralism
- Sustainable development
- water
- socio-economic aspects
- household income studies
- mapping
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper provides an introduction and overview for the special issue on systematic conservation planning in the species-rich and highly vulnerable Cape Floristic Region. Firstly, we outline the…Publication Date 2003
- conservation
- planning
- management
- biodiversity
- land-use
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummary in English and AfrikaansPublication Date 2003
- rangelands
- rangeland management
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- management
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe tropics cover 8.2 billion hectares or approximately 40% of the world's land area. These regions are characterized by a large portion of the world's rapidly increasing population, high…Publication Date 2002
- carbon dioxide
- carbon dynamics
- carbon sequestration
- Carbon Sink
- greenhouse gases
- climate change
- soils
- socio-economic aspects
- land use
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordEcology and desert ecology have focused on feeding relationships within assemblages of organisms and/or the relationships of plants to the animals that feed on them. Major differences in the…Publication Date 2002
- desertification
- socio-economic aspects
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores the long-standing interest in the introduction of fodder legumes as an essential component of mixed farming systems in Africa. The central argument is that because of certain…Publication Date 2002
- fodder legumes
- research
- uptake
- Africa
- mucuna
- mixed farming
- Crop-livestock interactions
- fodder quality
- agriculture
- livestock
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper provides a theoretical analysis of the effects of temporal controls on the stochastic behavior of renewable natural resources such as fisheries and rangelands. First, we show that temporal…Publication Date 2002
- management
- Renewable resource
- Temporal control
- uncertainty
- rangelands
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGiven current population trends and projections in sub-Saharan Africa, it is anticipated that substantial intensification of agricultural cropland is certain within the next decades. In the absence…Publication Date 2002
- climate
- conservation
- Livelihoods
- socio-economic aspects
- ecology
- biodiversity
- legislation
- Communal areas
- subsistence agriculture
- sustainble development
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordCommon understanding of the causes of land-use and land-cover change is dominated by simplifications which, in turn, underlie many environment-development policies. This article tracks some of the…Publication Date 2001
- land use
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGlobal debates surrounding the management of natural resources in protected areas advocate greater involvement of local populations in order to maintain sustainable resource use and conserve…Publication Date 2001
- Botswana
- Livelihoods
- natural resources
- protected areas
- sustainability
- management
- national parks
- biodiversity
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAbstract Anthropogenic natural habitat transformation presents the single most important threat to global biodiversity. Land cover data, based on Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery, were used to…Publication Date 2000
- biodiversity
- land use
- Landsat images
- conservation
- species richness
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordDuring the last decade a [']new rangeland science 039; has emerged. One of the tenets of the new science is that pastoralists should not adhere to a single conservative stocking rate, but rather…Publication Date 2000
- Capital costs
- cattle
- carrying capacity
- Environmental costs
- modelling
- rangeland
- southern Africa
- stocking rate
- socio-economic aspects
- economics
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper describes an adaptive agent model of rangelands based on concepts of complex adaptive systems. The behavioural and biological processes of pastoralists, regulators, livestock, grass and…Publication Date 2000
- Complex adaptive systems
- ecosystem management
- rangelands
- Adaptive agents
- modelling
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSince attainment of independence, almost every country in East and Southern Africa has introduced some kind of land reform aimed at reconciling indigenous land tenure practices and those introduced…Publication Date 2000
- land tenure
- Land rights
- land reform
- Botswana
- East and Southern Africa
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordEntire sub-Saharan Africa and pockets of Asian population is at risk of starvation. The problems and possibilities are however quite different amongst the two regions. Africa with its less than 8% of…Publication Date 2000
- agriculture
- climate
- food security
- Early warning
- Needs
- opportunities
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is significant uncertainty about the effects of global change on the vegetation and animal productivity of pasture and rangeland ecosystems. This paper presents a synthesis of progress made…Publication Date 2000
- climate change
- management
- pastures
- rangelands
- Sensitive regions
- synthesis
- animal production
- plant production
- modelling
- carbon dioxide
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis article describes a greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenario for a world that chooses collectively and effectively to pursue service-oriented economic prosperity while taking into account equity…Publication Date 2000
- climate change
- greenhouse gases
- socio-economic aspects
- carbon dioxide
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWe examined the perceptions and realities of land degradation in a communal ranching area, Otjimbingwe, in arid Namibia (in south-western Africa). It is commonly perceived that large-scale…Publication Date 2000
- land degradation
- Namibia
- livestock
- ranching
- communal pastoralism
- degradation
- communal farming
- pastoralism
- socio-economic aspects
- rainfall
- drought
- stocking rates
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe Mceula Commonage Land in the Hewu district lies due northwest of Whittle sea and west of Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. This thesis has two main objectives. Firstly, to survey and analyse the…Publication Date 2000
- natural resources
- management
- Eastern Cape
- subsistence agriculture
- Economic Aspects
- medicinal plants
- soil
- socio-economic aspects
- sustainability
- land use
- degradation
- participatory rural appraisal
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordWhile community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) now attracts widespread international attention, its practical implementation frequently falls short of expectations. This paper contributes…Publication Date 1999
- socio-economic aspects
- community-based natural resource management
- management
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordFood security for the world in 2025 is possible and probable if the right set of things are done, starting now. But the task will not be easy. It is both a technology and a political/economic…Publication Date 1999
- food security
- availability
- access
- Nutritional security
- sustainable intensification
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Prospects for 2025
- Food and agricultural policy
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRecent political transformation in South Africa has laid the basis for significant socioeconomic change. One area in which the greatest socioeconomic disparities are discernable is the agricultural…Publication Date 1999
- agriculture
- Resettlement
- Rural development
- South Africa
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- commercial agriculture
- economics
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThere is much controversy surrounding the poverty-environmental degradation nexus. The predominant school of thought argues that poverty is a major cause of environmental degradation and if policy…Publication Date 1998
- Poverty
- environmental degradation
- market failure
- institutional failure
- conflicts
- feedback
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- economics
- rangeland condition
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo account for the failure of state-driven development projects, policy makers and planners have tended to blame communal farmers for adhering to outmoded traditional values and practices.…Publication Date 1998
- culture
- politics
- land
- development
- tradition
- modernity
- hybridity
- socio-economic aspects
- land use
- management
- Sustainable development
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the interest in the development and promotion of mixed farming in sub-Saharan Africa. For over 70 years mixed farming has been a dominant model for agricultural development…Publication Date 1998
- mixed farming
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- crop-livestock interaction
- nutrient cycling
- integrated farming
- agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- Sustainable development
- livestock
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper reviews the application of the nutrient budget and balance approach from a range of settings and scales in Africa. The paper asks: can such analyses help in the design of effective policy…Publication Date 1998
- soil fertility
- Nutrient budgets
- scale
- sustainability
- policy
- Africa
- policies
- management
- communal farming
- subsistence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper presents an overview of the current status, problems and prospects for achieving a better nutrient balance to support varying levels of productivity from the three major livestock systems…Publication Date 1998
- livestock systems
- nutrient management
- Nutrient depletion
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- grazing
- monitoring
- management
- forage quality
- Economic Aspects
- land use
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordRecent political changes in South Africa have required a new approach to project management, one that includes community involvement at all levels of project planning, decision-making and execution.…Publication Date 1998
- Mier Rural Area
- Kalahari
- South Africa
- desertification
- Community involvement
- rangeland degradation
- rangeland rehabilitation
- rangeland condition
- rangelands
- degradation
- rehabilitation
- management
- community based resource management
- socio-economic aspects
- decision support systems
- stakeholders
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSummarySouth Africa contains an extensive, well-managed protected area network which generates considerable economic benefits from tourism, but the extensive land and financial resources required by…Publication Date 1996
- eco - tourism
- socio-economic aspects
- rural areas
- Poverty
- conservation
- national parks
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe `facts' about environmental problems are usually left to the scientists to discern. There is increasing recognition, however, that scientific reality is not generated from objective study…Publication Date 1996
- degradation
- policies
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe renewable natural resources sector in Africa is of particular importance because of the relatively high proportion of livelihoods that it supports in comparison to other developing regions.…Publication Date 1996
- Renewable
- Natural
- resources
- Africa
- policy
- economics
- sustainability
- policies
- rural areas
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper examines the advantages of the traditional cattlepost system against the recent drive towards the fencing of Botswana's rangelands and the establishment of privatised, commercial beef…Publication Date 1996
- rangelands
- degradation
- Kalahari
- Cattle Ranching
- Hunter-gatherers
- Botswana
- cattle
- subsistence agriculture
- commercial agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- Economic Aspects
- politics
- policies
- grazing
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe basic reasons for the present unsatisfactory structure of agricultural R & D in Southern Africa and particularly in South Africa, are the focus of R & D on the commercial sector of…Publication Date 1995
- socio-economic aspects
- stakeholders
- agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMuch of the spread of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) as an emerging family of approaches and methods has been lateral, South-South, through experiential learning and changes in behavior, with…Publication Date 1994
- socio-economic aspects
- pastoralism
- subsistence agriculture
- household income studies
- policies
- management
- decision support systems
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn semi-arid and arid magisterial (administrative) districts (n = 45) in the Cape Province, South Africa, there has been a mean 44·4 ± 14·6% (S.D.) reduction in the stocking rates of domestic…Publication Date 1994
- livestock
- animal production
- stocking rates
- rainfall
- drought
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAn analysis tool was developed to simulate primary productivity and crop yields for both present and possible future climate conditions. Southern Africa was delineated into 712 relatively homogeneous…Publication Date 1993
- plant production
- agriculture
- climate change
- soil
- vegetation dynamics
- hydrology
- modelling
- GIS
- rainfall
- socio-economic aspects
- policies
- food security
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA development path for South Africa that will create jobs and reduce poverty must include the encouragement of greater labor intensity in agriculture, especially of smallholder farming, which was…Publication Date 1993
- land reform
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- Poverty
- rural areas
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPopulation pressures within southern Africa are forcing people to increasingly crop land of a diverse and fragile nature where the risk of environmental degradation is high and current yields are low…Publication Date 1993
- soil moisture
- no-till
- climate
- Soil Condition
- soil fertility
- socio-economic aspects
- communal farming
- Africa