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Rangeland tenure and pastoral development in Botswana: Is there a future for community-based management?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2006)
Botswana has a long history of attempts to ‘rationalise’ land tenure so as to improve livestock production, which remains a mainstay for the rural economy. This paper addresses the profound transformations in land tenure ...
'Celebrating ten years of research, training and policy engagement on land and agrarian reform, livelihoods, community-based natural resource management, and poverty'. A ten year review report 1995-2005
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2006)
The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Over the last
ten years we have undertaken research on land and agrarian reform, the changing composition of livelihoods
and ...
Natural resource management and land reform in southern Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2006)
Throughout southern Africa, land holdings have remained significantly skewed between rich and poor, with discriminatory land tenure systems reflecting the land and agricultural policies adopted in colonial times and after ...
Land politics, trust relations in government and land reform in South Africa: Experiences from the Western and Northern Cape provinces
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2006)
The land question, as it is posed academically in South Africa, is at the cutting edge of the development debate.1 Should land held by poor peasants, often under some kind of communal tenure, be re-organised as private ...
Vulnerability and social protection at the margins of the formal economy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
This report sets out the results of an in-depth study of livelihood strategies and
‘coping mechanisms’ among poor people in one very specific, but highly significant
context of poverty in South Africa. Its core concrete ...
The impact of people-centred approaches to natural resource management on poverty reduction
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is often promoted by governments, NGOs and donors
as a means of reducing poverty in rural communities, particularly through income-generation from various natural
res ...
Management of some commons in southern Africa: Implications for policy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Profound transformations in communal land tenure systems are taking place in parts of southern Africa that have resulted
from decades of interventions, particularly the shrinking of the commonage through capture of extensive ...
Challenges and prospects for trans-boundary fisheries in Lakes Chiuta and Kariba
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Community-based conservation (CBC) is a prominent feature of conservation and development policy and practice in southern
Africa. It is a generic concept defining different configurations of controlling access to and use ...
Outcomes of community engagement in community-based natural resource management programmes
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Although the last century has witnessed exciting strategies in resource management in the form of community-based natural
resource management (CBNRM), these developments are more incremental than revolutionary. CBNRM falls ...
The membership problem in people-centred approaches to natural resource management in Southern Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006)
Who should qualify to be a member of a natural resource management (NRM) programme in Southern Africa with the attendant
benefits and responsibilities? In Zimbabwe, membership of such programmes could be described as ...