Closing the gap: bringing communal farmers and service institutions together for livestock and rangeland development

Kroll, Thilo; Kruger, A.S.

doi:10.1006/jare.1998.0394

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“…By recording his/her observations, the farmer obtains a better understanding of how variable environmental conditions, for example amount and seasonality of rainfall influence the state of the environment and his/her agricultural production. Second, by recording each observation in the prepared field guide, a historical record is created, which allows the farmer to compare conditions over the years and also to compare with fellow farmers in community FIRM or comparable CBO (Kambatuku, ; Klintenberg et al , ; Kroll and Kruger, ).Forums for Integrated Resource Management is an approach designed to put rural communities in the driver's seat in terms of their own development. It involves a CBO of rural farmers taking the lead in organising, planning and monitoring their own development while coordinating the interventions of their service providers (Kruger et al , 2008; Stringer et al , , ).The joint discussion of results among farmers in a community FIRM is one of the key features of the LLM system, providing an information base for joint planning and decision making.…”

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Knowledge Management for Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment: An Analysis of Contemporary Thinking

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It is increasingly recognised that land degradation monitoring and assessment can benefit from incorporating multiple sources of knowledge, using a variety of methods at different scales, including the perspectives of researchers, land managers and other stakeholders. However, the knowledge and methods required to achieve this are often dispersed across individuals and organisations at different levels and locations. Appropriate knowledge management mechanisms are therefore required to more efficiently harness these different sources of knowledge and facilitate their broader dissemination and application. This paper examines what knowledge is, how it is generated and explores how it may be stored, transferred and exchanged between knowledge producers and users before it is applied to monitor and assess land degradation at the local scale. It suggests that knowledge management can also benefit from the development of mechanisms that promote changes in understanding and efficient means of accessing and/or brokering knowledge. Broadly, these processes for knowledge management can (i) help identify and share good practices and build capacity for land degradation monitoring at different scales and in different contexts and (ii) create knowledge networks to share lessons learned and monitoring data among and between different stakeholders, scales and locations. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Knowledge Management for Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment: An Analysis of Contemporary Thinking

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“…This last represents personal capital accumulation, enhances social status and helps to meet social obligations. It also minimises production risks, since large herds can be split and kept at different locations to reduce the chances of total loss (Kroll and Kruger, 1998). At the communal farm level, further functional differentiations exist between animals kept in mixed and pastoral systems.…”

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“…Livestock sales from commercial farms contributed 63% to the total agricultural output, while those from communal farmers contributed only 0.3% in 2004 (Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, 2005). Freehold farms produce red meat primarily for international markets as well as supplying domestic consumers (Kroll and Kruger, 1998), while the situation for communal farmers is more complex. Commonly used measures of production, such as animal off-take rates, are only relevant where a commercial focus exists (Stroebel et al, 2008).…”

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Performance, management and objectives of cattle farming on communal ranges in Namibia

Siegmund‐Schultze

Lange

Schneiderat

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Journal of Arid Environments

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“…There are high unemployment levels (41 per cent and 28 per cent for the Hardap and Karas regions respectively), and the majority of labour is unskilled (Ministry of Labour and the National Planning Commission, 1998). Although livestock farming is ubiquitous throughout the region, it appears to contribute little to the national GDP (Hansohm and Mupotola-Sibongo, 1998;Kroll and Kruger, 1998).…”

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Sustainability of livestock farming in the communal lands of Southern Namibia

Kuiper

Meadows

2002

Land Degrad Dev

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The impacts of livestock farming in southern Namibia's communal areas are investigated. Small stock farming is ubiquitous in this semiarid region, and provides many people with their only source of wealth and income. It is traditionally thought that livestock grazing negatively impacts on the vegetation resource. Using both interviews and interpretation of sequential aerial photographs, veld (a South African word descriptive of the general vegetation and soils within an area) resilience and changes in vegetation composition and cover were analysed. Results provide contrasting evidence. Resilience is illustrated by good plant regeneration after the 1999±2000 rainy season, an observation that provides support for a disequilibrium interpretation of the landscape, suggesting that productivity here is primarily event driven and not unduly impacted by grazing pressure. Additional, contradictory, results show that vegetation composition has indeed changed in the communal lands, from predominantly palatable perennials to unpalatable annuals. Localized areas of degradation are also evident. Using sequential aerial photography, comparison of land units under commercial tenure (1970) with the situation subsequent to incorporation into Namaland (1998) indicates an increase in bare soil from 6Á3 to 11 per cent over the time period in question. This increase is attributed to, among other factors, increased pressure form livestock grazing. Although separating anthropogenic factors from other biophysical ones is dif®cult, it is argued that appropriate management practices should be employed that take into account both the veld's resilience and the observed localized degradation and species composition changes.

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Closing the gap: bringing communal farmers and service institutions together for livestock and rangeland development

Cited by 7 publications

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Knowledge Management for Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment: An Analysis of Contemporary Thinking

Knowledge Management for Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment: An Analysis of Contemporary Thinking

Performance, management and objectives of cattle farming on communal ranges in Namibia

Sustainability of livestock farming in the communal lands of Southern Namibia

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