Basupi, LV, Dougill, AJ orcid.org/0000-0002-3422-8228 and Quinn, CH orcid.org/0000-0002-2085-0446 (2019) Institutional challenges in pastoral landscape management: Towards sustainable land management in Ngamiland, Botswana. Land Degradation & Development, 30 (7). pp. 839-851. ISSN 1085-3278
Abstract
Policies, institutions, and governance structures have implications for the sustainable use of land resources. In dryland Africa, pastoral landscapes are faced with challenges of land degradation, livestock diseases, droughts, and land use conflicts. In order to enhance resilience and integrity of pastoral societies and landscapes, sustainable land management (SLM) requires that policies and institutions create an enabling environment that encourages sustainable use. This study analyses current policy, institutional, and governance challenges in relation to SLM in Ngamiland, Botswana. We use a series of expert interviews, local stakeholder workshops, document, and policy content analysis to analyse policy and institutional challenges. Key findings of this study include fragmented institutional and policy frameworks, conflicting policies and priorities, weak governance structures, lack of integrated planning and coordination between sectors, gaps in communication, knowledge gaps, and fragmented pastoralists lobbying institutions, all of which hinders prospects for SLM in communal areas of Botswana. Harmonisation of sectoral policies requires institutional and policy design to consider institutional coordination and enhanced learning on other actors' perspectives and constraints. Findings in Ngamiland show that collaborative comanagement approaches can play a role in facilitating intersectoral data sharing to enable successful development of pastoral landscapes and a supportive decision‐making system for SLM.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Basupi, LV, Dougill, AJ, Quinn, CH. Institutional challenges in pastoral landscape management: Towards sustainable land management in Ngamiland, Botswana. Land Degrad Dev. 2019; 30: 839– 851, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3271. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | comanagement; institutions; pastoralism; policy analysis; rangelands |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2019 14:52 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jan 2020 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/ldr.3271 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:144735 |