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Autor: Lawry, S.W.

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.[Communal grazing and range management: The case of grazing associations in Lesotho]Communal grazing and range management: The case of grazing associations in Lesotho

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.Bromley, D.W.[Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands]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.Mokitimi, N.L.[The evolution of the wool and mohair marketing system in Lesotho: Implication for policy and institutional reform]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 ...


Swallow, B.M.Brokken, R.F.[Cattle marketing policy in Lesotho]Cattle marketing policy in Lesotho

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.Bromley, D.W.[LPA Brief No. 1. Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands]LPA Brief No. 1. Institutions, governance and incentives in common property regimes for African rangelands
Autor: Swallow, B.M.

This chapter Reports on the major research work carried out in Lesotho and the analysis of the livestock industry in the context of rangeland utilization with overall implications for marketing. In this context the results have importance for similar livestock/range problems elsewhere in Africa. ...


Swallow, B.M.[Marketing, livestock Development, and rangeland utilization]Marketing, livestock Development, and rangeland utilization

Reports the findings of a collecting mission in Lesotho carried out by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria and the Germplasm Institute CNR, Bari, Italy in April 1988. The main objective was to collect genetic resources of cowpea and bambara groundnut, and g...


Padulosi, S.Laghetti, G.[Collecting germplasm in Lesotho]Collecting germplasm in Lesotho

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