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   Comments on PDN papers 29a (Abel and Blaikie 1990) and 28b (Scoones 1989)

   January, 1990

   Botswana, Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   common property

   land use

   grazing

   land tenure

   This document contains a collection of critical comments by experts working in the field of pastoralism with regard to several PDN papers.

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   Land degradation, stocking rates and conservation policies in the communal rangelands of Botswana and Zimbabwe

   January, 1990

   Botswana, Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land

   land use

   land tenure

   rangelands

   common property

   land degradation

   grazing

   This article suggests that communual rangeland management policies in Botswana and Zimbabwe are based on incorrect technical assumptions about the stability of semiarid rangelands, the nature of rangeland degradation, and the benefits of destocking. Consequently, inappropriate policies, stressing the need to destock and stabilise the rangelands, are pursued.Acknowledgement of the great instability but intrinsic resilience of rangeland would encourage the Governments to more favourable regard the opportunistic stocking strategies of the agro-pastoralists of the Communual Areas.

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   Tsetse control, land use and livestock in the development of the Zambezi valley, Zimbabwe: Some policy considerations

   Reports & Research

   December, 1989

   Zimbabwe, Africa, Southern Africa

   land use

   Throughout Africa the importance of land use issues in relation to tsetse control planning has been emphasized consistently in the tsetse literature. Because of inappropriate land use, concerns for the environment in tsetse-freed areas have been expressed frequently. This debate is very relevant to Zimbabwe, where extensive tsetse control operations in recent years have confined the remaining area of tsetse infestation to parts of the Zambezi valley, a semi-arid region of the country with a fragile eco-system and limited agricultural potential.

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   Constitution of Namibia.

   Constitution

   January, 1990

   Namibia