Paper attempts to dispel some of the confusion surrounding the application of the range degradation concept in Botswana. It has three objectives. First, to present the current thinking of range ecologists vis-a-vis range degradation. Second, to dismiss recent arguments that range degradation in Botswana is insignificant.
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Library ResourceEnero, 1993Botswana, África subsahariana
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Library ResourceEnero, 1993Botswana, África subsahariana
A useful debate is developing over carrying capacity and the degradation of communal rangelands in sub-Saharan Africa. With a few lonely exceptions, scientists and policy-makers have in the past claimed that degradation is universal and livestock productivity lowered because of overstocking on communal range. This position has been mainly dogmatic. More recent research has not supported dogmatists; hence the debate, which impinges on livestock development policy in Botswana.A new livestock development policy is being promoted by the Government of Botswana (Ministry of Agriculture 1991).
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Library ResourceEnero, 1993Botswana, África subsahariana
Recent arguments have stated that the new livestock development policy will carry a high social cost, that the reality of range degradation in Botswana has been ignored, and that there is no basis for assuming that de-stocking would decrease the productivity of rangeland.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 1993Bangladesh, Nigeria, Nepal, Irán, Israel, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Esuatini, Ghana, Congo, Pakistán, Níger, Panamá, Kenya, Yemen, Filipinas, Botswana, Senegal, Togo, Cuba
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