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Farming is business: rethinking commercialization of farming in the Aminuis communal area, Omaheke region, Namibia
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/128809 Farming is business: rethinking commercialization of farming in the Aminuis communal area, Omaheke region, Namibia Tjiharuka, David Hattingh, Johan Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Philosophy. Applied Ethics. Agricultural systems -- Namibia Environmental ethics -- Namibia Commercial farming -- Namibia Communal living -- Namibia Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2023. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To redress the inequality created by the colonial regimes, i.e. the German and South African colonial administrations in the Namibian agricultural fraternity, the sovereign Republic of Namibia Government introduced commercial farming in the communal areas five years after independence, in 1995. The farming system, specifically sedentary ranching (in distinction from nomadic farming), adopted and practiced for the commercialization of farming in the Aminuis communal area resulted, however, in social, economic, and ecological problems. Soil bareness and infertility, poor vegetation growth, disappearance of vegetation and wildlife species, and bush encroachment are the environmental impacts of the sedentary ranching system. On the other hand, tension and conflict, and physical fights are the social impacts of the sedentary ranching system. To investigate the root cause, nature, depth and extent of these social, economic, and ecological problems, this research deployed a mixed methodology i.e. desktop study and qualitative interviews. The research discovered that the privatization of communal land, overstocking and overgrazing of grazing land, homesteads mushrooming, and deforestation are the basic characteristics of the sedentary ranching system that have caused the environmental degradation and social dysfunction. Further, these essential components are underpinned by survival, augmentation of livelihood, pastoralism, social identity, and individual dignity values. Hence, to restore the environmental quality and social cohesion, the farmers and residents have to reexamine their values and alter them. In this study a proposal is formulated that can guide the community of Aminuis in this process of re-examination. AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Die sowereine regering van die Republiek van Namibie het in 1995, vyf jaar na onafhanklikheid, kommersiële boerdery ingestel om die ongelykheid te herstel wat deur koloniale (Suid Afrikaans en Duitse) regimes veroorsaak is in die Namibiese landbougemeenskap. Die kommersiële boerdery wat op gemeenskapsgrond in die Aminuis area ingestel en beoefen is, nader omskryf as sedentêre boerdery (in onderskeiding van nomadiese boerdery) het egter sosiale, ekonomiese en ekologiese probleme veroorsaak. Kaal en onvrugbare grond, swak weidinggroei, verdwyining van plantegroei en wildspesies, en indringerbosse is die ekologiese- of omgewingsimpak hiervan, terwyl spanning en konflik, en fisiese gevegte die sosiale impak van dié boerdery is. Om die oorsaak, aard en erns van hierdie sosiale, ekonomiese en ekologiese probleme te bestudeer, het hierdie studie die gemengde metodologie van literatuurstudie en kwalitatiewe onderhoude gebruik. Die navorsing het bevind dat die privatisering van gemeenskaplike grond, oorlaaide grond met te veel vee op, oorbeweiding, versnelde uitbreiding van behuising en ontbossing die basiese oorsake van die omgewingsagteruitgang en sosiale disfunksie is. Verder, hierde deurslaggewende komponente word onderlê deur die waardes van oorlewing, aanvulling van inkomste, pastoralisme, sosiale identiteit en individuele waardigheid. Daarom, om omgewingskwaliteit en sosiale kohesie te herstel, moet die boere en inwoners hierdie waardes herondersoek en aanpas. In hierdie studie word ‘n voorstel aan die hand gedoen wat die gemeenskap van Aminuis kan lei in hierdie proses van herwaardering. Masters 2023-08-11T09:45:49Z 2024-01-08T11:55:16Z 2023-08-11T09:45:49Z 2024-01-08T11:55:16Z 2023-08 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/128809 en_ZA en_ZA Stellenbosch University ix, 89 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Agricultural systems -- Namibia Environmental ethics -- Namibia Commercial farming -- Namibia Communal living -- Namibia Tjiharuka, David Farming is business: rethinking commercialization of farming in the Aminuis communal area, Omaheke region, Namibia |
| title | Farming is business: rethinking commercialization of farming in the Aminuis communal area, Omaheke region, Namibia |
| title_full | Farming is business: rethinking commercialization of farming in the Aminuis communal area, Omaheke region, Namibia |
| title_fullStr | Farming is business: rethinking commercialization of farming in the Aminuis communal area, Omaheke region, Namibia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farming is business: rethinking commercialization of farming in the Aminuis communal area, Omaheke region, Namibia |
| title_short | Farming is business: rethinking commercialization of farming in the Aminuis communal area, Omaheke region, Namibia |
| title_sort | farming is business rethinking commercialization of farming in the aminuis communal area omaheke region namibia |
| topic | Agricultural systems -- Namibia Environmental ethics -- Namibia Commercial farming -- Namibia Communal living -- Namibia |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/128809 |
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