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Chinsembu KC, Negumbo J, Likando M, Mbangu A 2014. An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used to treat livestock diseases in Onayena and Katima Mulilo, Namibia. South African Journal of Botany 94 101-107

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Ransom E 2011. Botswana's beef global commodity chain: Explaining the resistance to change. Journal of Rural Studies 27 (4) 431-439

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016711000520

Kroll T, Kruger AS 1998. Closing the gap: bringing communal farmers and service institutions together for livestock and rangeland development. Journal of Arid Environments 39 (2) 315-323

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398903949

Child BA, Musengezi J, Parent GD, Child GFT 2012. The economics and institutional economics of wildlife on private land in Africa. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 2 (18)

Website link:http://www.pastoralismjournal.com/content/2/1/18

Melville HIAS, Bothma J du P 2006. Using spoor counts to analyse the effect of small stock farming in Namibia on caracal density in the neighbouring Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Journal of Arid Environments 64 (3) 436-447

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196305001424

Moser-Nørgaard PM, Denich M 2011. Influence of livestock on the regeneration of fodder trees along ephemeral rivers of Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (4) 371-376

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310003186

Skinner JD 1970. Game-ranching in Africa as a source of meat for local consumption and export. Tropical Animal Health and Production 2 (3) 151-157

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02359682

Bigalke RC 2000. Functional Relationships Between Protected and Agricultural Areas in South Africa and Namibia. Wildlife Conservation by Sustainable Use 12 169-201

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-4012-6_9

MCA-Namibia.

Website link:http://www.mcanamibia.org/ab_aboutus.php?type=sub&id=13

Barnes JI, Cannon J, MacGregor J 2008. Livestock production economics on communal land in Botswana: Effects of tenure, scale and subsidies. Development Southern Africa 25 (3) 327-345

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03768350802212121#.UdxEKNzwBFo

Düvel GH, Stephanus AL 2000. Production constraints and perceived marketing problems of stock farmers in some districts of the northern communal areas of Namibia. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension 29 89-104

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Website link:http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajae/article/view/3631

Devereux S, Naeraa T 1996. Drought and Survival in Rural Namibia. Journal of Southern African Studies 22 (3) 421-440

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2637312

Moleele N, Ringrose S, Arnberg W, Lunden B, Vanderpost C 2001. Assessment of vegetation indexes useful for browse (forage) prediction in semi-arid rangelands. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22 (5) 741-756

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431160051060147

Thomas NH 2003. Land reform in Zimbabwe. Third World Quaterly 24 (4) 691-712

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0143659032000105821

Scoones I 1992. Coping with Drought: Responses of Herders and Livestock in Contrasting Savanna Environments in Southern Zimbabwe. Human Ecology 20 (3) 293-314

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4603055

Tomlinson KW, Hearne JW, Alexander RR 2002. An approach to evaluate the effect of property size on land-use options in semi-arid rangelands. Ecological Modelling 149 (1-2) 85-95

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380001005166

Richardson FD, Hahn BD, Hoffman BT 2005. On the dynamics of grazing systems in the semi-arid succulent Karoo: The relevance of equilibrium and non-equilibrium concepts to the sustainability of semi-arid pastoral systems. Ecological Modelling 187 (4) 491-512

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030438000500102X

Thomas DSG, Sporton D, Perkins J 2000. The environmental impact of livestock ranches in the Kalahari, Botswana: natural resource use, ecological change and human response in a dynamic dryland system. Land Degradation and Development 11 (4) 327-341

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1099-145X(200007/08)11:4%3C327::AID-LDR395%3E3.0.CO;2-V/abstract

James CD, Landsberg J, Morton SR 1999. Provision of watering points in the Australian arid zone: a review of effects on biota. Journal of Arid Environments 41 (1) 87-121

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196398904670

Coppolillo PB 2000. The Landscape Ecology of Pastoral Herding: Spatial Analysis of Land Use and Livestock Production in East Africa. Human Ecology 28 (4) 527-560

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4603371?uid=4&sid=21101373936633

Bartolome JW 1993. Applications of herbivore optimization theory to rangelands of the western United States. Ecological Applications 3 (1) 27-29

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1941785

Cornelius R, Schultka W 1997. Vegetation structure of a heavily grazed range in Northern Kenya: ground vegetation. Journal of Arid Environments 36 (3) 459-474

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396902098

Weber GE, Jeltsch F, van Rooyen N, Milton SJ 1998. Simulated long-term vegetation response to grazing heterogeneity in semi-arid rangelands. Journal of Applied Ecology 35 (5) 687-699

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2664.1998.355341.x/abstract

Twyman C, Sporton D, Thomas DSG 2004. 'Where is the life in farming?': The viability of smallholder farming on the margins of the Kalahari, Southern Africa. Geoforum 35 (1) 69-85

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718503000307

Pringle HJR, Landsberg J 2004. Predicting the distribution of livestock grazing pressure in rangelands. Austral Ecology 29 (1) 31-39

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01363.x/abstract;jsessionid=1FB2004CBB7E43F17B66AB5342AD7D0A.d02t02?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

Baker LE, Hoffman MT 2006. Managing Variability: Herding Strategies in Communal Rangelands of Semiarid Namaqualand, South Africa. Human Ecology 34 (6) 765-784

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/27654156

Hitchcock RK 1978. Kalahari Cattle Posts: A Regional Study of Hunter-Gatherers, Pastoralists and Agriculturalists in the Western Sandveld Region, Central District, Botswana.

Website link:http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1230476

Bousman CB 1998. The Chronological Evidence for the Introduction of Domestic Stock into Southern Africa. African Archaeological Review 15 (2) 133-150

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/u7p4625n0508171r/

Sard K 1990. From foraging to herding: the west coast of South Africa in the first millennium AD. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology 247 (1) 217-230

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/90583k204k70t401/

Smith AB 1998. Early Domestic Stock in Southern Africa: A Commentary. African Archaeological Review 15 (2) 151-156

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/q34568q352j52l75/

Agri Alert - Agriculture Related Interactive Blog for Erongo Region, Namibia.

Website link:http://agrialert.blogspot.de/

The World Bank - Namibia: Country Brief.

Website link:http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/NAMIBIAEXTN/0,,menuPK:382303~pagePK:141132~piPK:141107~theSitePK:382293,00.html

Trollope WSW Effects and use of fire in southern African savannas.

Website link:http://www.researchgate.net/publication/268415664_EFFECTS_AND_USE_OF_FIRE_IN_SOUTHERN_AFRICAN_SAVANNAS

2010. Building climate change resilience for African livestock in sub-Sahara Africa - World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP): a program of IUCN. viii

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Kuiper SM, Meadows ME 2002. Sustainability of livestock farming in the communal lands of Southern Namibia. Land Degradation and Development 13 (1) 1 - 15

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.476/abstract

Wallgren M, Skarpe C, Bergström R, Danell K, Bergström A, Jakobsson T, Karlsson K, Strand T 2009. Influence of land use on the abundance of wildlife and livestock in the Kalahari, Botswana. Journal of Arid Environments 73 (3) 314 - 321

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196308002826

2005. Grasslands of the World.

Website link:http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y8344e/y8344e00.htm

Ward D, Ngairorue BT, Kathena J, Samuels R, Ofran Y 1998. Land degradation is not a necessary outcome of communal pastoralism in arid Namibia. Journal of Arid Environments 40 (4) 357 - 371

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014019639890458X

Ward D, Saltz D, Ngairorue BT 2004. Spatio-temporal rainfall variation and stock management in arid Namibia. Journal of Range Management 57 (2) 130 - 140

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/4003910

Weigend GG 1985. German Settlement Patterns in Namibia. Geographical Review 75 (2) 156 - 169

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/214466

Verlinden A, Kruger AS 2007. Changing grazing systems in Central North Namibia. Land Degradation and Development 18 (2) 179 - 197

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Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ldr.769/abstract

Smit GN 2004. An approach to tree thinning to structure southern African savannas for long-term restoration from bush encroachment. Journal of Environmental Management 71 (2) 179 - 191

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479704000477

Dougill A, Cox J 1995. Land degradation and grazinh in the Kalahari new analysis and alternative perspectives.

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Moleele NM, Ringrose S, Matheson W, Vanderpost C 2002. More woody plants? the status of bush encroachment in Botswana's grazing areas. Journal of Environmental Management 64 (1) 3 - 11

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479701904864

Saltz D, Ward D, Kapofi I, Karamata J 2004. Population estimation and harvesting potential for game in arid Namibia. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 34 (2) 153 - 161

Website link:http://www.mendeley.com/research/population-estimation-and-harvesting-potential-for-game-in-arid-namibia/

Konstant TL, Sullivan S, Cunningham AB 1995. He effects of utilization by people and livestock on Hyphaene petersiana (Arecaceae) basketry resources in the Palm Savanna of north-central Namibia. Economic Botany 49 (4) 345 - 356

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4255770

Klintenberg P, Seely M, Christiansson C 2007. Local and national perceptions of environmental change in central Northern Namibia: Do they correspond?. Journal of Arid Environments 69 (3) 506 - 525

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306003880

Buss HJ, Nuppenau E-A 2002. More Sustainable Range Use in Semi-Arid Eco-Systems through adapted Management: A case Study on Namibian Farms based on Bio-Economic Models.

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Burke A 2004. Range management systems in arid Namibia - what can livestock numbers tell us?. Journal of Arid Environments 59 (2) 387 - 408

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196304000345

Bollig M, Schulte A 1999. Environmental change and pastoral perceptions: Degradation and indigenous knowledge in two African pastoral communities. Human Ecology 27 (3) 493 - 514

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/4603331