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Community-based natural resources management: Experiences and lessons linking communities to sustainable resource use in different social, economic and ecological conditions in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
The project, which started in 1996
in partnership with the South
African Department of Land
Affairs (DLA), supports
communities that have a stake in nature
conservation areas through ownership, or a
claim to ownership, ...
Access to land and other natural resources for local communities in Mozambique: Current examples from Manica Province
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)
Mozambique is still one of the poorest countries in the world. Given that poverty remains overwhelmingly rural in nature, measures to effectively address it should therefore be targeted to the areas where the rural poor ...
The context of land and resource rights struggles in Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
Africa’s poor are heavily dependent on land and natural resources for livelihood, but some governments continue to resist
transferring full resource management rights to them. This risks the loss or degradation of these ...
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 ...
‘People are not happy’ – Speaking up for adaptive natural resource governance in Mahenye
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2007)
This paper explores the ongoing events surrounding the CAMPFIRE project of Mahenye in Zimbabwe within the context of the recent discourse of crisis within community based natural resource management (CBNRM) and crisis ...
Community-based natural resources management: Experiences and lessons linking communities to sustainable resource use in different social, economic and ecological conditions in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2002)
The project, which started in 1996
in partnership with the South
African Department of Land
Affairs (DLA), supports
communities that have a stake in nature
conservation areas through ownership, or a
claim to ownership, ...
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 ...
Contested resources: Challenges to the governance of natural resources in Southern Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
Papers from the International Symposium on ‘Contested Resources: Challenges to Governance of Natural Resources in Southern Africa. Emerging perspectives from Norwegian-Southern African collaborative research’ held at The ...