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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 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 ...
Land and resources in a transfrontier setting
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
Amongst the many initiatives in legislative and policy change affecting land and common property resource management
in Southern Africa today, transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) seem particularly prominent because ...
From ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ to a people-driven land reform
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The concept of ‘willing seller, willing buyer’ has dominated the discourse on land reform in South Africa since 1994. Now,
following the national Land Summit of July 2005, it appears that government is willing to abandon ...
Mainstreaming of HIV and Aids into South African Fisheries Policy
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2008)
This research investigated the drivers
and the impact of HIV and Aids in
fishing communities in South Africa, in
order to assist the Department of Environmental
Affairs and Tourism: Marine
and Coastal Management ...
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 ...
Will formalising property rights reduce poverty in South Africa’s ‘second economy’?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
De Soto’s influential book The mystery of capital offers a simple yet beguiling message: capitalism can be made to work for
the poor, through formalising their property rights in houses, land and small businesses. This ...
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 ...