Download or read book The Enclosure of Range Lands in the Eastern Oshikoto Region of Namibia written by Ben Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the conflict between small communal farmers and large (indigenous) commercial farmers.
Download or read book Contested Lands in Southern and Eastern Africa written by Robin H. Palmer and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 1997 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of land tenure and land reform, and their impact on poor and vulnerable communities, are of vital importance throughout Southern and Eastern Africa. From the vast literature on the subject, Robin Palmer has selected and summarized more than 300 recent books, articles, academic theses, and reports of conferences and workshops. This survey includes studies of Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In addition to major sections on economic and legal issues, special sections feature studies of Land and Pastoralism, and Land and Women.
Download or read book Fragmentation in Semi Arid and Arid Landscapes written by Kathleen A. Galvin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With detailed data from nine sites around the world, the authors examine how the so-called ‘fragmentation’ of these fragile landscapes occurs and the consequences of this break-up for ecosystems and the people who depend on them. ‘Rangelands’ make up a quarter of the world’s landscape, and here, the case is developed that while fragmentation arises from different natural, social and economic conditions worldwide, it creates similar outcomes for human and natural systems.
Download or read book People Cattle and Land written by Michael Bollig and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments written by Deborah Sporton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics of contemporary natural resource based livelihoods and implications for their sustainability in the context of the Kalahari environment of southern Africa, a region subject to marked spatial and temporal natural variability. Each chapter is written by an active Kalahari researcher and addresses, from an environmental or a social perspective, the implications of different policies for rural livelihoods and coping strategies.
Download or read book World Forests Markets and Policies written by Matti Palo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s the world community has arrived at a particularly in developing countries and in econo historical turning point. Global issues- the decline mies in transition. These three organizations have of biological diversity, climate change, the fate of different backgrounds and focuses, but have found forest peoples, fresh water scarcity, desertification, it relevant and rewarding to their core operations to deforestation and forest degradation - have come collaborate in WFSE activities. The intention of to dominate the public and political debate about these organizations is to continue supporting the forestry. In the economic sphere, forest industries WFSE research and developing the mutual collab have assumed global dimensions. oration. The World Forests, Society and Environment In the year 2000,WFSE took on anewchallenge, Research Program (WFSE) is a response by the re extending its research network to involve five new searchcommunity to thisglobalization. The WFSE Associate Partners: the Center for International slogan 'Globalization calls for global research' re Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia;the Cent flects both the means and the end of the program. er for Research and Higher Education on Natural The program is involved in promoting and execut Resources of Tropical America (CATIE) in Costa ing research in different parts of the world, and Rica; the International Centerfor Research inAgro through its publications and communications net Forestry (ICRAF) in Kenya; the World Forestry work, linking researchers worldwide.
Download or read book Living on the Land written by Antti Erkkilä and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which is the PhD thesis of the author presented to the Faculty of Forestry of the University of Joensuu (Finland) in December 2001, analyses changes in the forest cover in the Ohangwena Region, particularly focussing on the domestic use of wood in constructions on farms. 'The results indicate that deforestation was caused almost entirely by clearing of land for permanent agriculture. ... The frequent change of homestead site has been an important factor in creating the characteristic agroforestry landscape' of the area. One of the sources the authors uses are aerial photographs from the 1940s onwards, and satellite images from the 1980s onwards. The discussion in the book deals with household sizes, homestead density and constructions, land cover structures and frequency of vegetation species. (BAB).
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Download or read book Contested Resources written by Tor Arve Benjaminsen and published by Programme for Land & Agrarian Studies School of Government University of Western Cape. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
