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- 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 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 RecordWe use a dynamic stochastic simulation model of forage, herbivores, predators and domestic livestock in the Machakos District of Kenya to address policies related to the multiple use of rangeland…Publication Date 1997
- policies
- grazing
- livestock
- land use
- rangelands
- Traditional management
- commercial agriculture
- conservation
- pastoralism
- Forage Quantity
- drought
- 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 RecordQuestions as to whether public investment in international agricultural research is a [`]Good Thing' or not may best be addressed using two arguments: (1) justifications based on whether or not…Publication Date 2003
- livestock
- System
- classification
- mapping
- animal production
- economics
- agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- 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 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 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 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 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 RecordIt is claimed that high returns can be achieved from hunting and ecotourism operations. As a result wildlife production is a rapidly growing form of land-use in South Africa. Lately, rural African…Publication Date 2002
- Economies of scale
- Wildlife production
- livestock production
- Savannah land-use
- land use
- game farming
- commercial agriculture
- livestock
- Economic Aspects
- eco - tourism
- subsistence agriculture
- 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 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 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 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 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 RecordSummary Following the severe droughts in the Sahel and Ethiopia in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which focused the world's attention on drought and desertification, the United Nations system…Publication Date 1984
- drought
- desertification
- socio-economic aspects
- climate change
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe role of herbivores in controlling plant species richness is a critical issue in the conservation and management of grassland biodiversity. Numerous field experiments in grassland plant…Publication Date 1998
- herbivores
- grassland
- diversity
- species richness
- environmental gradients
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- conservation
- management
- livestock
- soil fertility
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- 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 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 RecordThe species composition of grazing lands can be influenced by livestock and grazing pressure. A study on manure seed bank was conducted in Ghinchi highland Research Site in Ethiopia between 1995 and…Publication Date 2000
- manure
- species
- Life-form
- livestock
- seed banks
- biodiversity
- grazing
- species richness
- grasslands
- germination
- soil fertility
- management
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 RecordArid rangelands host a variety of drought-tolerant wildlife species, many of them requiring conservation efforts for the survival of their populations. The development of drinking water sources for…Publication Date 2001
- livestock
- wildlife
- association
- Water points
- environmental impact
- spatial analysis
- Kenya
- biodiversity
- land-use
- management
- population ecology
- system ecology
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordPost-1994 land reform policies have had limited effects on land use in the communities surrounding Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserves in South Africa's Transkei region. Likewise, prior state…Publication Date 2009
- land tenure
- protected areas
- villagization
- forests
- socio-economic aspects
- politics
- land use
- subsistence agriculture
- legislation
- management
- stakeholders
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe impact of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) is seen by many as a 'win-win' situation with reference to natural resources conservation and the improvement of local…Publication Date 2010
- Community-based tourism
- community-based natural resource management
- Community participation
- Khama Rhino Sanctuary Trust
- eco - tourism
- Economic Aspects
- socio-economic aspects
- conservation
- Botswana
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordGlobal environmental change problems due to their unstructured characteristics, being marked by great uncertainties and a big number of stakeholders, prove to be too difficult to solve in a…Publication Date 2005
- stakeholder participation
- learning
- Systems change
- Global environmental change
- Transition management
- management
- stakeholders
- climate change
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordWooded rangelands are a vast grazing land resource globally, including shrublands, savannas and forested ranges. They generally provide forage year-round for small ruminants and they are vitally…Publication Date 2005
- diet selection
- Physical and chemical plant defences
- anti-quality
- grazing behaviour
- grazing
- rangelands
- savanna
- goats
- sheep
- foraging ecology
- livestock
- forage quality
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSavanna covers about two-thirds of Africa, with forage quantity and quality being important factors determining the distribution and density of wildlife and domestic stock. Testing hypotheses about…Publication Date 2010
- forage
- quality
- remote sensing
- hyperspectral
- herbivory
- Foliar
- nitrogen
- protein
- Polyphenol
- mopane
- savanna
- forage quality
- Forage Quantity
- livestock
- mapping
- management
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordMalagarasi River catchment represents one of the largest and most significant transboundary natural ecosystems in Africa. The catchment constitutes about one third of the catchment area of Lake…Publication Date 2010
- Land use land cover changes
- Malagarasi river catchment
- Muyovozi wetland
- perceptions
- remote sensing
- land use
- fire
- grazing
- management
- socio-economic aspects
- rehabilitation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSmallholder livestock keepers represent almost 20% of the world population and steward most of the agricultural land in the tropics. Observed and expected increases in future demand for livestock…Publication Date 2010
- smallholders
- intensification
- Tropical livestock
- systems
- Poverty
- environment
- markets
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- subsistence agriculture
- pastoralism
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordElandskloof was the first land restitution case in post-apartheid South Africa in which the government returned land to a community. The communal property association became dysfunctional, and the…Publication Date 2011
- Communal land systems
- Common property regimes
- Land restitution
- Post-apartheid land reform
- legislation
- subsitence agriculture
- socio-economic aspects
- non-grazing resources
- management
- South Africa
- Library Collection RecordCentral governments have neither the capacity nor the local knowledge to implement a just, large-scale national land registration system. Support to local institutions to undertake intermediate forms…Publication Date 2009
- land
- Property
- institutions
- investment
- management
- policies
- socio-economic aspects
- pastoralism
- land reform
- land use
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper explores local knowledge and practices in soil management and investment that have frequently gone unrecognised in assessments of soil fertility transformations and trends. Case material…Publication Date 2005
- soil
- Africa
- Local/indigenous knowledge
- soil fertility
- socio-economic aspects
- pastoralism
- subsistence agriculture
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordAgronomic analyses of soil dynamics in Africa have been found to be too simplifying and lacking any perspective on the critical role of farmers. Yet soil degradation is widespread and serious, and in…Publication Date 2005
- soil degradation
- Nutrient depletion
- agricultural production
- farming systems
- Price policies
- socio-economic aspects
- agriculture
- subsistence agriculture
- Soil Condition
- soil erosion
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordIn this study, we asked the Ariaal herders of northern Kenya to answer 'why, what and how' they classified landscape, and assessed and monitored the biodiversity of 10 km2 of grazing land.…Publication Date 2009
- Anthropogenic indicators
- Ariaal
- biodiversity
- Indigenous knowledge
- Grazing suitability
- landscape classification
- Landscape potential
- traditional knowledge
- pastoralism
- monitoring
- grazing
- grasslands
- land use
- Soil Condition
- livestock
- conservation
- management
- Kenya
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThis paper uses the concept of sustainable development to examine the utilisation of wildlife resources at Moremi Game Reserve (MGR) and Khwai community area (NG 18/19) in the Okavango Delta,…Publication Date 2005
- Wildlife resources
- Resource conflicts
- Sustainable development
- community-based natural resource management
- socio-economic aspects
- eco - tourism
- conservation
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordThe issue of sustainability and productivity of open communal rangelands compared to fenced rangelands is often subject to controversy. This study investigated differences in soil and grass layer…Publication Date 2010
- game
- livestock
- Lowveld
- overgrazing
- stocking rates
- grazing
- sustainability
- management
- Soil Condition
- commercial agriculture
- communal farming
- rangelands
- vegetation dynamics
- plant production
- soil fertility
- Swaziland
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordNatural resource management may change local and regional ecosystems, especially in drought-prone environments. Livestock are commonly kept as a source of capital in agriculturally dominated…Publication Date 2009
- desertification
- erosion
- Holistic management
- riparian grazing
- management
- degradation
- communal farming
- ecosystem dynamics
- livestock
- watering points
- Zimbabwe
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordHuman land use such as pastoralism may be a key determinant of wildlife populations. We studied the influence of land use on wildlife and livestock in south-western Kalahari, Botswana, during the wet…Publication Date 2009
- Carnivore
- distance
- herbivore
- Mammal
- Ostrich
- savanna
- land use
- conservation
- national parks
- livestock
- pastoralism
- cattle
- species richness
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordA great many debates have grown up around the notion of desertification as a process of degradation that affects the arid, semi-arid and sub-humid zones of the globe. A fundamental and continuing…Publication Date 2005
- desertification
- Paradigms
- climate
- rangeland ecology
- Livelihoods approach
- environmental policy
- rangelands
- policies
- land use
- ecology
- socio-economic aspects
- Africa