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- Library Collection RecordFeral animals are a big problem in Australia. Recent government reports suggest they may be causing 750 million dollars of damage annually. Tom Garret is what's known as a "roo shooter.…Publication Date 2012
- Feral animals
- wildlife management
- harvesting
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordJohn Taylor of the University of Queensland Gaton and Mike Chuk of the Desert Channels Group discuss the ongoing encroachment of woody species in Australia's grasslands. Largely, this is because…Publication Date 2012
- woodlands
- grasslands
- climate change
- Australia
- Queensland
- woodland encroachment
- Library Collection RecordJohn Taylor, of the University of Queensland Gatton, has been working in Australia's rangelands for over thirty years. The people that he has befriended in the Outback are creative and…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordDavid Phelps and John Taylor discuss Mitchell grass, a highly productive and valuable forage species in Australia. Mitchell grass survives long droughts by having a deep root system but can also take…Publication Date 2012
- Australia
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- Australia
- Library Collection RecordThe following dissertation sets out to investigate the decline of agriculture in Mission location at Butterworth, Transkei, using the Rehabilitation Scheme as a benchmark. The scheme was introduced…Publication Date 2003
- agriculture
- South Africa
- Transkei
- land use
- land tenure
- soil erosion
- politics
- policies
- communal farming
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordCommonage is land that is usually found adjacent to a town, which is owned by the local municipality and acquired through state grants or, historically, through the church. Since the new government…Publication Date 2009
- commonage
- land reform
- common property resource
- adaptive co-management
- Subsistence farming
- management
- land use
- grazing
- Sustainable utilisation
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordA history ofland degradation is reconstructed in a part of the dividing ridge between the Great Fish and Keiskamma rivers, in Peddie District, former Ciskei. The study entails a comparative…Publication Date 1997
- land use
- Eastern Cape
- South Africa
- erosion
- degradation
- Tenure
- land use
- Subsistence farming
- Commercial farming
- Traditional management
- betterment villages
- Aerial Photographs
- GIS
- southern Africa
- Library Collection RecordTo redress past discrepancies in land tenure, the ANC government acknowledged that land needs to be made accessible to the previously disadvantaged, announcing that commonage would be a pillar of…Publication Date 2009
- Municipal commonage
- Livelihoods
- natural resource valuation
- direct-use values
- policies
- politics
- socio-economic aspects
- land tenure
- land use
- communal farming
- legislation
- management
- grazing
- southern 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