Despite agricultural land abandonment threatening the food security and the livelihoods of
smallholder farmers, it is pervasive globally and in developing countries. Yet land …

An understanding of factors influencing smallholder farmers' livestock ownership at the
household level is vital in formulating pro-poor livestock production policies and …

Despite the size of the informal small-scale farming sector and its livestock holdings in South
Africa, there has been little detailed work to assess how livestock populations are affected by …

Even though livestock farming has been identified in the Integrated Sustainable Rural
Development Strategy as the agricultural sub-sector with the most likely chance of improving …

This paper discusses the sustainability of livestock systems, emphasising bidirectional
relations with animal health. We review conventional and contrarian thinking on …

Policy affecting the rangeland commons in South Africa has been based largely on
management models developed for large-scale commercial farming. This paper examines …

Transdisciplinarity is gaining acceptance in sustainability science research as an approach
to work across disparate types of knowledge and practices in order to tackle complex social …

In South Africa, the relative extent of range degradation under freehold compared to
communal tenure has been strongly debated. We present a perspective on the processes …

The productive functions of livestock ownership in communal areas are multipurpose in
character, comprising a mix of stock types and a range of goods and services used. When all …

This paper identifies the constraints for livestock marketing by small-scale farmers. It further
provides a new perspective on actionable strategies and implications for agricultural …