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Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana
(Ecology and Society, https://ecologyandsociety.org/, 2023)Over the past three decades community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) has sought to address the concurrent needs of economic development and ecological protection at the local level, but there is often strong ... -
An assessment of the extent to which agricultural farms meet the requirements for sustainable agritourism in Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis, https://taylorandfrancis.com/, 2024)The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which agricultural farms meet the requirements for sustainable agritourism in Zimbabwe. This study was motivated by the realisation that despite that the country is ... -
Agrotourism as peripheral and ultraperipheral community livelihoods diversification strategy: insights from the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Elservier, https://www.elsevier.com, 2023)The potential of agrotourism for livelihoods diversification in remote (peripheral) and extremely remote (ultraperipheral) traditional, agrarian communities is indeed a testament of its uniqueness to enhance rural ... -
From sink to source: high inter-annual variability in the carbon budget of a Southern African wetland
(The Royal Society Publishing, https://royalsocietypublishing.org, 2021-05-26)We report on three years of continuous monitoring of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions in two contrasting wetland areas of the Okavango Delta, Botswana: a perennial swamp and a seasonal floodplain. The ... -
Urban waste no replacement for natural foods-Marabou storks in Botswana
(Oxford University Press, https://academic.oup.com, 2021-01-16)We compared diets of marabou storks Leptoptilos crumenifer foraging from urban landfills and natural areas in northern Botswana using stable isotope analyses and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry on moulted ...