The REPAiR Project shared research insights with policy makers and others at the launch of the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) in Antananarivo.

The crucial question of who ‘owns’ rangelands in South Africa is shaped by overlapping forces – traditional authorities, colonial legacies and more recently-formed grazing associations.

The idea that ‘green’ ecosystems are automatically more healthy is based on a long history of assumptions about nature.

An interview with Brahim El Guabli about the origins and legacy of bias against deserts in colonial science and culture, and the myth of the default ‘green’ landscape.

We should question deep rooted assumptions about how pastoralists, livestock and wildlife can co-exist.

Beyond myths based on stories of lost Paradise or a romantic wilderness, there are diverse ways of seeing the relationships between humans, livestock and wildlife.

REPAiR team member Tim Zocco explains – in the form of a comic – why comics are valuable in research.

Wakhe Mkhize reflects on changes and challenges in markets faced by farmers in KwaZulu-Natal, and what they mean for health, land and livelihoods.

There is a powerful myth at the heart of global carbon markets:  the deceptively simple idea that ‘carbon is carbon’.