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A male kudu passes in front of tourists on a game drive in South Africa. David Silverman/Getty Images

Land reform in South Africa: how new landholders could prosper from wildlife and not just farming

Hayley Clements, Stellenbosch University; Alta De Vos, Stellenbosch University; Matthew Child, University of Pretoria, and Siviwe Shwababa, Rhodes University

South Africa needs to track whether beneficiaries of land reform policies are participating in the country’s thriving wildlife economy.
Land reform strategies portray the land as uniform, static and independent from its social-environmental context. GettyImages

South Africa’s land reform policies need to embrace social, economic and ecological sustainability

Penny Mograbi, Rhodes University; Alta De Vos, Rhodes University; Charlie Shackleton, Rhodes University; Hayley Clements, Stellenbosch University; Joana Bezerra, Rhodes University; Kaera Coetzer, University of the Witwatersrand, and Kristi Maciejewski, Stellenbosch University

South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
With tourism revenue drying up due to COVID-19, the debate surrounding trophy hunting of wildlife species like African lions is more relevant now than before. Alex Braczkowski

COVID‑19, Africa’s conservation and trophy hunting dilemma

Duan Biggs, Griffith University; Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Griffith University; Alta De Vos, Rhodes University, and Hayley Clements, Stellenbosch University

A new study evaluates what South African landowners who run trophy hunting operations would do in the event of a hunting ban.

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