The Evolution of Institutions and Rules Governing Communal Grazing Lands in Botswana

Makepe, Patricia M.

doi:10.1353/eas.2006.0005

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“…Findings from the workshop and policy analysis reveal that privatisation of communal lands is still viewed as a superior solution to the rangeland management problems in communal areas. Several studies point out that TGLP was implemented based on questionable epistemological grounds and has yielded little evidence that it has achieved its intended SLM objectives (Basupi et al, ; Makepe, ; Perkins, ; White, ). Political ‘lock‐in’ to a policy of land privatisation limits efforts to empower local communities to manage communal rangelands.…”

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Institutional challenges in pastoral landscape management: Towards sustainable land management in Ngamiland, Botswana

2019

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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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Institutional challenges in pastoral landscape management: Towards sustainable land management in Ngamiland, Botswana

2019

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“…Importantly, kgotla is a form of commons and commoning. Numerous commons scholars have researched kgotla as commons, dating back to at least the 1990s [15]; however, this research focuses on kgotla management of natural resource systems like grazing land [6,7]. There is no known commons literature that extends kgotla practices beyond natural resource management to social policy areas like blood services.…”

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“…In contrast with Global North counterparts, Botswana possesses an Indigenous governance system, kgotla, which exists at both village level and national level as the House of Chiefs (Ntlo ya Dikgosi) in Parliament. The kgotla have long been recognized as a form of commoning [6,7], making governance in Botswana, in principle, a dual state-commons system. Despite the formal recognition of the state-commons arrangement in Botswana, the state has not engaged the kgotla as a partner to address trust in healthcare services.…”

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Botswana Blood Commons

Sacks

Galabo

Nthubu

2022

Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 2

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What role can the commons play in improving citizen trust in healthcare services? We explore this question in the context of the chronic blood supply shortage in Botswana, where the Indigenous kgotla village governance system operates alongside the republican state. To address barriers to trust in the blood services ecosystem, we review the public-commons partnership model as a commons ecosystem model that could support participatory design of blood services between the kgotla and state. We apply this model to the ecosystem mapping tool used in the Jigsaw framework, a method previously used in Botswana to support ecosystem visualization, to prompt state consideration of this alternative public-commons partnership as a solution to the blood supply shortage. We also explore the re-visualized ecosystem as a pluriversal commons, where the kgotla and state cosmologies must interact to solve the collective action challenge of blood supply.

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“…Botswana's rural people are mostly rural village dwellers and their pastoral activities assume the form of transhumance under a three-tier settlement system, whereby rural village dwellers commute between villages, land areas and temporary, encampments known as cattle posts, where livestock are kept [48]. Traditionally, communal rangelands have been managed by traditional institutions which allow for inter-territorial grazing between unfixed tribal boundaries so that animals can access forage and water even in times of stress, such as drought years [49]. Change in environmental conditions has always influenced pastoral livelihoods in Botswana [2].…”

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Pastoralism and Land Tenure Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflicting Policies and Priorities in Ngamiland, Botswana

Basupi¹,

Quinn²,

Dougill³

2017

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Abstract:In dryland Africa, access to land and water resources are central to pastoral livelihood activities. Policy intervention in these regions represents the outcome of concerted post-independence processes in which countries have committed to land tenure transformation as a policy objective. This was meant to create private, liberal property rights to replace communal customary tenure systems which were considered to be a constraint to development. Despite these efforts, decades of scientific research indicate that countries are still struggling to meet environmental sustainability objectives. Land degradation where it existed has not been halted and traditional pastoral livelihoods have been disrupted. The overall evidence base for policymaking remains weak as deficiencies in data or information on which management decisions were based led to poor policy performance. In a bid to strengthen understanding in this area, this study has a dual aim: 1. Using a systematic review of the literature, we examine the impact of land tenure transformation in pastoral areas in sub-Saharan Africa; 2. We analyse user-perspectives on land tenure transformation and pastoralists' rights in Ngamiland, Botswana, so as to draw out the salient issues that must be addressed in order to reconcile pastoral tenure conflicts and land management in sub-Saharan Africa.Results from meta-analysis and case study show that land tenure transformation policies across pastoral areas are subject to similar challenges and consequences. Protecting pastoral land rights requires deliberate policy interventions that recognise pastoralism as a productive and efficient use of resources. Policymakers need to overcome anti-pastoral prejudice and focus on Sustainable Land Management goals. This entails establishing negotiated and flexible tenure frameworks that strengthen pastoralists' participation in decision-making arenas by working with pastoral communities on the basis of understanding their livelihood system.

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The Evolution of Institutions and Rules Governing Communal Grazing Lands in Botswana

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Institutional challenges in pastoral landscape management: Towards sustainable land management in Ngamiland, Botswana

Institutional challenges in pastoral landscape management: Towards sustainable land management in Ngamiland, Botswana

Botswana Blood Commons

Pastoralism and Land Tenure Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflicting Policies and Priorities in Ngamiland, Botswana

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