

Community visions of ecoagriculture in a South African transfrontier conservation area
This project facilitated meetings between smallholder communal farmers to chart local environmental and livelihood concerns, and to envision futures that address both.
This scenario planning project recognised communal farmers as key stakeholders and biodiversity stewards in transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs). The study gathered farmers in the Mathenjwa Tribal Authority in the Kwazulu-Natal province of South Africa for a community visioning exercise. The goal was to establish the place of TFCA goals in the farmers’ visions of (or aspirations for) the future, and the role of farmers in the achievement of TFCA goals. The community vision was analysed in the light of ecoagriculture goals and the TFCA objectives, to confirm the relevance of ecoagriculture as a strategy to achieve both the community’s aspirations and the TFCA goals.
Project facts
South Africa
KwaZulu-Natal
2012
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Munyaradzi Chitakira
Project leader
21 november 2022
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Munyaradzi Chitakira
Community visions of ecoagriculture in a South African transfrontier conservation area
Resources
Chitakira, M., Torquebiau, E., Ferguson, W. (2012) Community visioning in a transfrontier conservation area in Southern Africa paves the way towards landscapes combining agricultural production and biodiversity conservation, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 55:9, 1228-1247
Buck, L. E., & Scherr, S. J. (2011). Moving Ecoagriculture into the Mainstream. In State of the World 2011. Routledge.
Chitakira, M., Torquebiau, E. and Ferguson, W., 2012. Unique combinations of stakeholders in a transfrontier conservation area promote biodiversity-agriculture integration. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 36(3), pp.275-295.
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