Building resilience in rangelands through a natural resource management approach, Namaqualand: a case study - Summary

Case study
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Published: January 2020
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The Department of Environmental Affairs in South Africa has been implementing a Natural Resource Management (NRM) programme that has been contributing towards the restoration of rangelands for several decades. Although contributing to adaptation, the NRM programme is not measuring the impact of its intervention in terms of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). A case study in Namaqualand by Conservation South Africa (CSA) tested whether low cost erosion control structures within the NRM programme would have both biophysical and socio-economic benefits in South Africa’s semi-arid rangelands. They tested this through semi-structured face-to-face interviews as well as a Before-After-Control-Impact-Paired study that tested the biophysical impacts of structures across ten sites.

The study found that there is opportunity for the programme to provide investment for large scale EbA if they are designed and monitored as such. The case study found that monitoring both the biophysical and the socio-economic benefits of the programme, as well as the impact of specific adaptation training, will demonstrate the additional benefits the programme provides with regards to long term resilience.

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Muller, H., Hawkins, H. and Scorgie, S. (2020). Building resilience in rangelands through a natural resource management approach, Namaqualand: a case study - Summary. .
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