Browsing Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) by Subject "Rangelands"

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    • Rangeland tenure and pastoral development in Botswana: Is there a future for community-based management? 

      Taylor, Michael (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 ...

    • Rangelands at equilibrium and non-equilibrium recent developments in the debate around rangeland ecology and management 

      Bayer, Wolfgang; Hahn, Brian; Hiernaux, Pierre; Hoffman, Timm; Illius, Andrew; Kerven, Carol; O’Connor, Tim; Richardson, David; Sandford, Stephen; Vetter, Susanne; Ward, David; Waters-Bayer, Ann (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2003)
      The debate on equilibrium vs non-equilibrium dynamics in pastoral systems emerged in the early 1980s, when economists, ecologists and social scientists began to challenge the widespread claims of overgrazing and degradation ...

    • Reshaping women’s land rights on communal rangeland 

      Kleinbooi, Karin (National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC) (Pty) Ltd, 2013)
      This paper aims to contribute to the debates on communal rangelands and analyses the gendered dimension of land rights and land access in the rural areas of Namaqualand. The actual gender relations within rural communities ...