Beyond fences: wildlife, livestock and land use in Southern Africa.

2015 ◽  
pp. 243-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. M. Cumming ◽  
S. A. Osofsky ◽  
S. J. Atkinson ◽  
M. W. Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Southern Africa

Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe

1985 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Weiner ◽  
Sam Moyo ◽  
Barry Munslow ◽  
Phil O'Keefe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Cash Crops

Given a continuation of current trends, with increasing population growth and declining food production, Southern Africa (excluding South Africa) which could nearly feed itself during 1979–81, will be only 64 per cent self-sufficient by the turn of the century. Zimbabwe has a particularly important rôle to play in trying to prevent such a disaster. It is by far the most important exporter of food and cash crops in the region, and has been allocated the task of co-ordinating a food-security strategy for the nine member-states of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference, namely Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Nitrogen isotope composition of soils, C3 and C4 plants along land use gradients in southern Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 326-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.N. Aranibar ◽  
I.C. Anderson ◽  
H.E. Epstein ◽  
C.J.W. Feral ◽  
R.J. Swap ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Isotope Composition ◽  
Nitrogen Isotope ◽  
C4 Plants ◽  
C3 And C4 Plants ◽  
Nitrogen Isotope Composition

scholarly journals New AMS dates for the Middle Iron Age in the Mapungubwe landscape

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas N. Huffman ◽  
Stephen Woodborne
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Ethnic Stratification ◽  
Culture History ◽  
Middle Iron Age ◽  
Ams Dates

Research in the Limpopo Valley has documented over 500 Middle Iron Age sites (AD 900–1320) relevant to the origins of Mapungubwe – the capital of the first indigenous state in southern Africa. Fifteen new accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates from 11 of these archaeological sites establish the boundaries of the ceramic facies that form the culture-history framework for such diverse topics as land use, ethnic stratification, population dynamics and rainfall fluctuations. Mapungubwe was abandoned at about AD 1320.

Maximising net benefits through biodiversity as a primary land use

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIAN WALKER
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
Conventional Agriculture ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Management Advice ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

In many developing regions of the world conventional agriculture is failing to meet the needs of people and at the same time is becoming progressively less ecologically sustainable. It is proposed that in a number of these regions, both overall economic development and the welfare of the inhabitants would improve if the primary form of land use was based on multiple use of those regions' natural biological resources, rather than continuing the practice of replacing or displacing them with marginal forms of agriculture. Testing this proposition, and then (if appropriate) effecting it, requires answers to a number of ecological, economic and management questions, in particular to do with: identifying those regions where biodiversity use has high potential the appropriate spatial scales for planning and management compatible combinations of different types of resource use ecological and economic trade-offs between different resource use enterprises how to arrive at the most efficient form of resource use sustainable levels of biodiversity harvest resource use decisions in relation to ecological drivers (such as climate and fire) institutional and regulatory structures that dictate current resource use. These questions, it is proposed, should form the basis of an international 'virtual' institute, composed of three Biodiversity Centres, one each in Latin America, southern Africa and Southeast Asia. Examples of multiple use, such as of wildlife in southern Africa, are used to illustrate the potential, and the management scale and other issues involved. If the development of this form of land use is to succeed, it will require technical and management advice and, in many cases, removal of 'perverse incentives' that prevent a change to the more economically and ecologically sustainable form of land use. From the beginning, the emphasis in the proposed centres would be on collaborative work involving governments, landowners and resource-based industries.

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