In recent years governments and donor agencies have devoted considerable resources to efforts to improve the management of communal grazing lands. Range and livestock projects have been designed to address such familiar pastoral problems as endemic overgrazing of rangelands, often leading to perm...
Lawry, S.W.
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[Communal grazing and range management: The case of grazing associations in Lesotho]
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Communal grazing and range management: The case of grazing associations in Lesotho
United Nations Environment Programme
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Desertification Control Programme Activity Centre
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[Internship Project On the Land Use Policies and Land Tenure In the Arid and Semi-arid Countries of Post-Independence Africa]
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Internship Project On the Land Use Policies and Land Tenure In the Arid and Semi-arid Countries of Post-Independence Africa
United Nations Environment Programme
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Lesotho, Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture
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[Workshop on National Legislation and Institutions for Environmental Disasters in Selected Countries in Southern Africa: Workshop Report]
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Workshop on National Legislation and Institutions for Environmental Disasters in Selected Countries in Southern Africa: Workshop Report
United Nations Environment Programme
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United Nations Development Programme
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[Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries Volume VII: Sectoral Environmental Laws and Regulations]
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Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries Volume VII: Sectoral Environmental Laws and Regulations
United Nations Environment Programme
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United Nations Development Programme
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[Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries : Volume V - Sectoral Environmental Laws and Regulations]
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Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries : Volume V - Sectoral Environmental Laws and Regulations
The general distinctions between open access, state property, common proerty and private property are now well established in the academic literature. When applied to African rangelands, however, common property admits a wide variety of resource management regimes. To formulate effective policies...
Swallow, B.M.
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Bromley, D.W.
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[Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands]
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Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands
For over eighty years, wool and mohair sales have provided Lesotho with its largest exports and with its largest domestically-generated sources of income. Presently, fleeces are marketed through any of three outlets: private traders, a government-sponsored marketing service, or, illegally, throug...
Hunter, J.P.
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Mokitimi, N.L.
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[The evolution of the wool and mohair marketing system in Lesotho: Implication for policy and institutional reform]
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The evolution of the wool and mohair marketing system in Lesotho: Implication for policy and institutional reform
The Lesotho cattle industry is characterized by overstocking, range degradation, low marketed offtake, low fertility, and high mortality. The overstocking situation is paradoxically accompanied by an ownership pattern which leaves many households with an insufficient number of cattle for draught ...
United Nations Environment Programme
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African Development Bank
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[Atlas des ressources en énergie de l'Afrique]
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[Atlas of Africa Energy Resources]
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Atlas of Africa Energy Resources
About 14 % of the world's cattle and 21 % of its sheep and goats are found in Africa on a land base that comprises 25 % of the world's total area of rangelands. Most of these rangelands are or have in the past been managed under traditional systems of communal tenure. Regrettably, the wide variet...
Swallow, B.M.
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Bromley, D.W.
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[LPA Brief No. 1. Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands]
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LPA Brief No. 1. Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands