Game ranching: An alternative and highly productive form of resource management

Friday, October 05, 2018

The author argues that game ranching could be a sustainable , lucrative use of communial land

Our new President, His Excellency Mokgweetsi Masisi, has declared that he wants his tenure as leader of Botswana to be characterised by the uplifting of the poorer people of our country. By far the poorest live in our rural areas and must eek out their living from the land.

This fact demands that if His Excellency’s ambitions are to be met, we must focus on our rural areas.

Our country is characterised by large areas of marginal low rainfall rangeland that is only capable of supporting extensive livestock production at low stocking rates.

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