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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management, Water management and irrigation in South Africa

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    African Centre for Water Research (ACWR)

    The African Centre for Water Research (ACWR) is an independent research and capacity building organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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    Inter-sectoral competition for water allocation in rural South Africa: analysing a case study through a standard environmental economics approach

    Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, 2002
    South Africa’s 1998 National Water Act aimed to promote resource protection, social equity and development, and economic efficiency. However these diverse objectives are liable to contradict one another in the context of water scarcity and competing demands from diverse users.This paper assesses ways of allocating rights to water between different users in terms of these objectives.
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    Water theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2002
    The key concern of this paper is with the implications of changes in institutions and policy in the water sector for poor communities, households and individuals. Three case studies are used, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, to illustrate changes in decentralisation, the involvement of stakeholders in decision making, and the role of the private sector.
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    The politics of water: a Southern African example

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    This report examines the political contradictions embedded in water reform processes across different levels in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique. It argues that implementing ideas on water reform often borrowed from extremely different contexts is not an automatic and unproblematic process, but involves complex local political negotiation.
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    Rural development, institutional change and livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a case study of Mdudwa Village

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003
    This paper looks at the case of Mdudwa village in the Eastern Cape to explore the processes and impacts of democratic decentralisation.
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    The Shared River Initiative on the Incomati : Southern Africa

    African Water Issues Research Unit, South Africa, 2000
    This paper tracks some of the dynamic processes currently at work in Southern Africa in particular those that are at work in the water sector, in an attempt to contextualize some of these processes in a way that is understandable to policy-makers.The paper outlines the hydropolitical background in South Africa and evaluates the Shared Rivers Initiative on the Incomati River in relation to thi
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    The Lesotho Highland Water Development Project: what went wrong? (or, rather: what went right? For whom?)

    International Rivers Network, 2000
    This article takes a critical look at the discussion regarding 19 corporate and individuals accused of bribing a top official in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in order to gain project contracts.The aim of the article is to examine how the actions (and inactions) of the public institutions involved in this project may have aided and abetted bribe giving, regardless of whether or not any br