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20 November 2024 - Amber Huff
Introducing REPAiR
Across Southern Africa, rangelands support a large amount of small-scale, communal livestock farming. The REPAiR project explores the potential and challenges of context-sensitive and community-led approaches for stewardship of these rangelands.
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29 May 2025 - Livasoa Randriamanalina
Understanding pastoralism in southern Madagascar
Understanding the cultures and contexts of pastoralism in Madagascar is vital to supporting resilience in rangelands.
11 April 2024 - REPAiR Project
Podcast: ‘Every grassland is different’
In the second episode of our podcast, Kevin Kirkman discusses the complex world beneath our feet, how a grassland ecologist works, and the need to bring scientific knowledge together with the social contexts of livestock farming in South Africa.
31 March 2025 - Linda Pappagallo
‘Storying’ rangelands with poetry and comics
Can poetry and comics help us think differently about rangelands?
6 March 2025 - REPAiR Project
Podcast: Learning from diverse knowledge in rangelands
In the first episode of our podcast, Ruan de Wet discusses misunderstandings about rangelands, and explains how Meat Naturally works with farmers in Southern Africa.
31 January 2025 - Linda Pappagallo
Should livestock farmers be given incentives for ‘good’ ecological practices?
The logic of ‘Payments for Ecosystem Services’ is to give farmers incentives for ‘good’ ecological practices. But where do we draw the line between a ‘good’ and ‘bad’ practice?
12 November 2024 - Farai Mtero
Creating equitable pathways in South African rangelands: why history and politics matter
To understand the challenges of landscape stewardship in South Africa, we need to appreciate how rangelands have been shaped by history, and how this continues to affect the way rangelands are governed today.
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