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Flood risk communication within flood prone communities of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Botswana Notes and Records;http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr/, 2017-07-05)
Floods have attracted much research attention and great improvements in forecasting them have been achieved to-date. However, the number of people affected by floods is increasing and is bound to soar as hydro-meteorological ...
Rural livelihoods and community local knowledge of risk of malaria transmission in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Botswana Society; http://journals.ub.bw/, 2017)
The Okavango Delta in north-western Botswana is a malaria endemic area. Most livelihood activities in this area are seasonal, usually coinciding with malaria season (November-April). The objective of this paper is to assess ...
Fisheries governance, management and marginalisation in developing countries: Insights from Botswana
(Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2017-06-13)
Globally, fish is a key source of food and nutrition security for all marginalized riparian communities. This is particularly so for Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Indeed, debates about power relations on fisheries ...
Claims and counterclaims: institutional arrangements and farmers response to the delivery and adoption of innovations in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2017)
Purpose: This article examined how institutional factors influencing the promotion of two elephant crop-raiding deterrent innovations (ECDIs) introduced to farmers through a ministry-based extension system in the Okavango ...
Soils, people and policy: land resource management conundrum in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, https://www.jaeid.it, 2017-06-26)
The multi-faceted aspects of natural resource governance underscore the complex nature of the subject. The intricacies associated with the skewed power relations between those who allocate these resources (land, in this ...