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Agricultural development and the distribution of water resources in Kgatleng District, Botswana

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

During Botswana's four decades of high levels of growth the agricultural sector has lagged behind, with smallholder productivity being especially poor. This paper applies an equity perspective: its main claim is that one important explanation for the current lack of agricultural development is the unequal distribution of agricultural resources. It takes into account both the national institutional structure, which promotes widespread inequality, and the distribution of boreholes and water resources on the communal grazing range in Kgatleng District. It argues that ever since the first administrative effort to develop water resources in the 1920s the country's official policy and legislation has directly or indirectly favoured the large-scale farmers over the smallholders and, further, that customary property rights principles have supported the process that has led to today's institutional inequality.

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

413-427

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Development Southern Africa

Volym

27

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Economic History

Nyckelord

  • agricultural development
  • equity
  • Botswana
  • water

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1470-3637