Is commercial livestock farming environmentally viable within the Orange and Fish River catchment area (OFCA) of Southern Namibia?

There are neither historical nor current baseline information relating to the productivity of the OFCA veld and a definite link between the current crisis and the possibly that it is suffering from the effects of having farmed the OFCA veld into a state of durable suboptimal productivity remains to be conclusively established. This current study has been undertaken in order to investigate such a possible link, and to reach a more definite conclusion with regards to the contribution of negative environmental feedback which may have arisen from commercial farming. Specifically, the study investigates the relationship between commercial livestock grazing regimes, possible associated resource degradation (losses in veld productivity and adverse structuring of botanical communities due to livestock grazing effects), and the current productive crisis within the sector.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Environmental and Geographical Science

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Van der Merwe, Schalk

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Meadows, Michael E

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4811

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/4811