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    • Commercialisation of land in Namibia’s communal land areas: A critical look at potential irrigation projects in Kavango East and Zambezi regions 

      Thiem, Maarit; Muduva, Theodor (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
      Large-scale land acquisitions by both foreign and local investors for agriculture, forestry and wildlife purposes, among others, remain a major challenge for African governments. In recent years, the Namibian ...
    • Community conservancies in Namibia: An effective institutional model for commons management? 

      Skyer, Patricia; Saruchera, Munyaradzi (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
      Common property resources (CPRs) remain of great significance for livelihoods among rural and poor communities of the world. CPRs are particularly important because in many contexts they remain resources of last resort ...
    • Elite land grabbing in Namibian communal areas and its impact on subsistence farmers’ livelihoods 

      Odendaal, Willem (PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
      This brief examines some emerging trends and dynamics in changing power relations in rural Namibian communities due to emerging new elites and the threats to subsistence farmers’ access to communal land and ...
    • Exclusion through defined membership in people-centered natural resources management: Who defines? 

      Mosimane, Alfons Wabahe; Aribeb, Karl Mutani (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)
      This paper investigates how community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has determined membership to rights over forestry and wildlife resources in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The legal frameworks in these ...
    • Large-scale land deals in Southern Africa voices of the people 

      Hall, Ruth; Gausi, Joseph; Matondi, Prosper; Nhancale, Camilo; Phiri, Dimuna; Zamchiya, Phillan; Muduva, Theodor (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2015)
      This book presents case studies of large-scale land deals in Southern Africa. It aims to provide an accessible and vivid window into the lived realities and responses of rural people who are affected by such deals. For ...
    • Large-scale land deals in Southern Africa: voices of the people 

      Hall, Ruth; Gausi, Joseph; Matondi, Prosper; Muduva, Theodor; Nhancale, Camilo; Phiri, Dimuna; Zamchiya, Phillan (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)
      This book presents case studies of large-scale land deals in Southern Africa. It aims to provide an accessible and vivid window into the lived realities and responses of rural people who are affected by such deals. For ...
    • Livelihoods after land reform 

      Werner, Wolfgang; Odendaal, Willem (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
      In 1990, Namibia emerged from colonial rule with a skewed distribution of agricultural land and high levels of poverty. The new government led by SWAPO Party initiated a process to address the land question within the ...
    • Livelihoods after land reform in South Africa 

      Aliber, Michael; Cousins, Ben (Wiley, 2013)
      Over the past few decades, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa have pursued redistributive land reform as a means to address rural poverty. The Livelihoods after Land Reform (LaLR) study was carried out between 2007 and ...
    • Livelihoods after land reform: Namibia country report (2010) 

      Werner, Wolfgang; Odendaal, Willem (Land, Environment and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre, 2010)
    • Livelihoods after land reform: Namibia country report (2010) Section B 

      Werner, Wolfgang; Odendaal, Willem (Land, Environment and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre, 2010)
      The first AALS farmers in Hardap obtained their land in 1992, and the most recent in 2003. In Omaheke, the first AALS farmer obtained his farm in 1992 and the most recent, a woman, in 2000. Thus in both regions the oldest ...
    • Livelihoods after land reform: The impacts of land reform on livelihoods in Namibia: Section B 

      Werner, Wolfgang; Odendaal, Willem (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
      The first AALS farmers in Hardap obtained their land in 1992, and the most recent in 2003. In Omaheke, the first AALS farmer obtained his farm in 1992 and the most recent, a woman, in 2000. Thus in both regions the oldest ...
    • The membership problem in people-centred approaches to natural resource management in Southern Africa 

      Matose, Frank; Mandondo, Alois; Mosimane, Alfons; Aribeb, Karl; Chikozho, Claudious; Jones, Mike (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 ...