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The impact of community-based forest management and joint forest management on the forest resource base and local people’s livelihoods: Case studies from Tanzania
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)
In recent years, there has been a move in eastern and southern African countries from centralised and state-driven management of natural resources towards decentralised and people-centred based regimes. In Tanzania, the ...
A case-study of the lekgophung tourism lodge, South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
The Lekgophung Lodge is a community-owned wildlife tourism lodge, located in the western part of the Madikwe Game Reserve in the North West Province of South Africa. The Lekgophung community is settled near the western ...
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land use and livelihoods
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)
This paper addresses how land reform can contribute to enhancing land-based livelihoods.
South African agriculture is often characterised as being divided into two types: freehold
tenure/ commercial agriculture vs. ...
Another countryside? Policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2009)
Land reform in South Africa is a political project that has foundered. For years, the process has been variously described as being ‘in crisis’, ‘at a crossroads’, ‘at an impasse’ or simply ’stuck’. This still seems as ...
Trans-boundary natural resources management in southern Africa: Local historical and livelihood realities within the Great Limpopo Trans-frontier Conservation Area
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The end of apartheid rule in South Africa, together with the termination of the civil war in Mozambique and the occupation of Namibia by South Africa in the early 1990s, seemed to herald profound changes in international ...
Livelihoods and sharing: Trends in a Lesotho village, 1976–2004
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
In 2004 I was fortunate enough to be able
to return to Ha Tumahole, the village
in Lesotho where I undertook research
on farming and livelihoods in 1976–77,
and spend four weeks learning about what
had changed in ...
The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
This thematic paper investigates emerging trends evident
in the limited literature available on the impact of land
restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking
about, and planning for, livelihoods.
The ...
Commons governance in Southern Africa
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2009-06-28)
This Policy Brief is based on synthetic
studies undertaken by participants in
the Cross Sectoral Commons Governance
in Southern Africa (CROSCOG)
project between 2007 and 2009,
funded by the European Commission
(European ...
The impact of land restitution and land reform on livelihoods
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
This report investigates emerging trends evident
in the limited literature available on the impact of land
restitution on livelihoods, and suggests ways of thinking
about, and planning for, livelihoods.
The report has ...
Livelihoods and sharing: Trends in a Lesotho village, 1976–2004
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape & Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc. (CARE), 2005-10)
The study compares the livelihoods and inter-household sharing mechanisms in a Lesotho village across a 28 year period. The report examines the complex socio-economic structures and systems that are in place in the rural ...