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Transfrontier Conservation Areas: People Living on the Edge

By Jens Andersson, Michel de Garine-Wichatitsky, David Cumming,

Vupenyu Dzingirai and Ken Giller (editors). London: Earthscan (forthcoming)

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Baudron, F., J.A. Andersson, M. Corbeels and K.E. Giller, 2011. Failing to Yield? Ploughs, conservation agriculture and the problem of agricultural intensification An example from the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, Journal of Development Studies (forthcoming)

Baudron, F., M. Corbeels, J.A. Andersson, M. Sibanda and K.E. Giller, 2011. Delineating the drivers of waning wildlife habitat: The predominance of cotton farming on the fringe of protected areas in the Mid Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe, Biological Conservation (forthcoming)

Pleijte, M., M. Schut, R. During, 2011. Reflexivity in action research: two spatial planning cases, in: A. van Paassen,  J. van den Berg, E. Steingröver, R. Werkman, and B. Pedroli (eds), Knowledge in action. The search for collaborative research for sustainable landscape development. Mansholt Publication Series, Wageningen Publishers, Wageningen, pp.221-243.

Ramoelo, Abel, Andrew K. Skidmore, Martin Schlerf, Renaud Mathieu, Ignas M.A Heitkönig. 2011. Water removed spectra increase the retrieval accuracy when estimating savanna grass nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations, ISPRS Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing Journal DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.01.008  (forthcoming)

Ramoelo, A., M. Cho, R. Mathieu, A.K. Skidmore, M. Schlerf, I.M.A. Heitkonig and H.H.T. Prins, 2011. Integrating Environmental and in situ Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Variables for Grass Nitrogen Estimation in Savannah Ecosystems, 34th International Symposium on the Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE 2001), Sydney, Australia, 10-15 April 2011.

Ramoelo, A., A.K. Skidmore, M. Cho, R. Mathieu, M. Schlerf, I. Heitkonig and H.H.T. Prins. 2011. Towards regional mapping of grass nutrients using remote sensing in Greater Kruger National Park, 9th Kruger Network Meeting, Skukuza, South Africa, 13-18 March 2011.

2010

Bos, S., W. Leonardo, A. Lerner and M. Schut.  2010. Assessing the potential of bioenergy production in smallholder farming systems: The case of Nhambita community. GTZ-ProBEC and Wageningen University and Research Centre, Maputo, p.47.

Ramoelo A, M. Cho, R. Mathieu, A.K. Skidmore, M. Scherf, I. Heitkonig, H.H.T. Prins and G. Asner. 2010. Hyperspectral remote sensing techniques for grass nutrient estimations in savannah ecosystems, 8th Kruger Network Meeting, Skukuza, South Africa, 8-12 March 2010.

Schut, M., M. Slingerland and A. Locke. 2010. Biofuel developments in Mozambique. Update and analysis of policy, potential and reality. Energy Policy 38(9), 5151-5165.

Schut, M., C. Leeuwis and A. van Paassen. 2010. Room for the River – Room for Research? The case of depoldering De Noordwaard, the Netherlands, Science and Public Policy 37(8), 611-627.

Schut, Marc L.W., S. Bos, L. Machuama and M.A. Slingerland. 2010. Working towards sustainability. Learning experiences for sustainable biofuel strategies in Mozambique, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands in collaboration with Cepagri, Maputo, Mozambique, 103p. [download]

Executive summary (8p.): [download].

2009

Baudron, Frédéric, Ken E. Giller, Marc Corbeels and François Monicat. 2009. Cotton expansion and biodiversity loss in African savannah, opportunities and challenges for conservation agriculture: A review paper based on two case studies, Biodiversity and Conservation 18: 2625-2644. 

Ramoelo A., M. Cho, R. Mathieu, A.K. Skidmore, M. Schlerf, C.A.J.M. de Bie, I.M.A. Hietkonig, H.H.T. Prins, G. Asner. 2009. Exploring various spectral indices for grass biomass estimations along a land use gradient in greater Kruger National Park, 7th Kruger Network Meeting, Skukuza, South Africa, 19-24 April 2009.

Schut, Marc L.W. 2009. Bioenergy initiatives in Mozambique, An analysis of policy, potential and reality, CERES Summerschool 2009, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (3 July 2009). [Presentation download: http://np-net.pbworks.com/f/20090703+-+Presentation+Marc+Schut-1.pdf].

Schut, Marc L.W. 2009. Blending perspectives on sustainability, Second Annual Africa Bioenergies Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (16-18 June 2009). [Presentation available at: http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/lang/381766].

2008

Giller, K. E., C. Leeuwis, J. A. Andersson, W. Andriesse, A. Brouwer, P. Frost, P. Hebinck, I. Heitkönig, M. K. van Ittersum, N. Koning, R. Ruben, M. Slingerland, H. Udo, T. Veldkamp, C. van de Vijver, M. T. van Wijk, and P. Windmeijer. 2008. Competing claims on natural resources: What role for science? Ecology and Society 13(2): 34. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art34/

Heitkönig, Ignas M.A. and Jens A. Andersson, 2008. Disentangling humans and wildlife on the road towards the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park. Paper presented at the 6th Kruger Network Meeting, Skukuza, 20-25 April 2008.

Milgroom, Jessica & Marja J. Spierenburg. 2008. ‘Induced Volition: Resettlement from the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies 26(4): 435-448.

Milgroom, J. and L.J. Shaffer, 2008. A New Look at the Landscape Consequences of Population Resettlement from Protected Areas, Paper presented at the 6th Kruger Network Meeting, Skukuza, South Africa, 20-25 April 2008.

Schut, Marc. 2008. Mobilization of knowledge in competing claims context. A research proposal for studying: Space for change in complex societal negotiation processes over natural resources, 8th European IFSA Symposium, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 6-10 July 2008.

Tapera, Kuvawoga Phillip. 2008. Spatial distribution of Wildlife-Livestock Conflict around Gonarezhou National Park area, MSc thesis, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Zimbabwe. [Abstract download]

Zengeya, Fadzai. 2008. Predicting the spatial occurrence of imbrasia belina (mopane worm) using remote sensing in the Southeast Lowveld of Zimbabwe, MSc thesis, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Zimbabwe. [Abstract download]

Zisadza, Patience. 2008. Spatio-temporal dynamics of land cover in the South-East Lowveld of Zimbabwe, MSc thesis, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Zimbabwe. [Abstract download]

2007

Andersson, Jens A. 2007. ‘How much did property rights matter? Understanding food insecurity in Zimbabwe: A critique of Richardson’, African Affairs 106(425): 681-690.

Andersson, Jens A., Wayne Twine, Amon Murwira, Ken E. Giller, Arnold B. Mashingaidze and Maja Slingerland. 2007. Land, productivity, and agricultural research: Towards an understanding of the multiple meanings of land, FARA-SADC regional dialogue, Sandton, Johannesburg: Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA): 118–128.

Hebinck, Paul G.M. and Yves P.B. van Leynseele. 2007. Pro-poor or what? Ethnographic explorations of two land restitution cases in rural South Africa, SANPAD conference: ‘The poverty challenge: poverty and poverty reduction in (South) Africa, India and Brazil’, Durban, South Africa, 26–29 June 2007.

Heitkönig, Ignas M.A. and C. McCrindle. 2007. Land use at the wildlife - livestock interface: Consequences for the GLTP. Paper presented at the 5th Kruger Network Meeting, Skukuza, South Africa, 15-20 April 2007.

Milgroom, Jessica & Marja J. Spierenburg. 2007. The elephants of democracy: Resettlement in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique, Paper presented at the bi-annual AEGIS conference: ‘African Alternatives’, Leiden, 11–14 July 2007.