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Southern Africa’s forests and
woodlands are prominent and extend from the desert margin scrub forests to open
woodlands bordering more humid ecosystems.
“When compared to the region’s
other ecosystems, they (forests and wood-lands) support the largest number of
people and livestock, making them central to food security.” In the Foreword
to the just-published Biodiversity of Indigenous Forests and Woodlands in
Southern Africa, Dr. Yemi Katerere, regional director for IUCN, says woodlands
offer the greatest potential for expansion of agriculture.
Biodiversity, defined by the Convention
on Biological Diversity (CBD) is “the variability among living organisms from
all sources, including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and
ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species,
between species and of ecosystems.”
The book, a thematic update of State of the Environment in Southern Africa
published in 1994, acknowledges forests and |
woodlands biodiversity management are not just technical in nature but
can also contribute significantly to poverty eradication.
Well-illustrated and designed, the book calls for an
urgent need to improve the forest and woodland biodiversity knowledge base in
southern Africa. Such an endeavour includes correcting past failures in policy and
ensuring that conservation and sustainable use and equitable sharing of benefits are an
integral part of socio-economic development.
Biodiversity of Indigenous Forests and Woodlands in
Southern Africa is written by a number of regional biodiversity professionals and meets the
varying needs of the different levels and sectors of the region’s inhabitants.
In all chapters, the writers and
researchers have provided additional in-formation with a human face provided
by journalists and biodiversity experts in the region. These cover a wide
spectrum from events which occur in the widespread forests and woodland of
SADC, some of which can be controlled and others which cannot. |
The book notes that national
economies of the region have started moving away from traditional state policing
of woodland resources and moved instead towards participatory management
practices.
As communities are encouraged to participate in
their environment, they again become involved in its management and grow to appreciate its value,
both materially and culturally. And thereby ensuring future conservation. (Re-viewed
by Tinashe Madava, SARDC)
Biodiversity of Indigenous Forests
and Woodlands in Southern Africa is published by SADC Environment and
Land Management Sector Coordination Unit (SADC-ELMS), the World Conservation Union’s Regional
Office for Southern Africa (IUCN-ROSA), and the Southern African Research and
Documentation Centre’s Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa
(SARDC-IMERCSA). Its production is funded by
USAID through the Networking and Capacity Building (NETCAB) initiative |
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Beyond Inequalities: Women in Angola —dos Santos, Naiole Cohen and
Ducados, Henda (reviwer).- 2000
Available from: ADRA, Praceta Farinha Leitao-No.27, IDTO, CP 3788,
Luanada, Angola Email: adra@ebonet.an ; DW, rua Rei Katyavala, 113, CP
3360, Luanda, Angola
Email: dwang@ebonet.an ; SARDC-WIDSAA, PO Box 5690, Harare
Email: widsaa@sardc.net or
sardc@sardc.net
Beyond Inequalities: Women in Mozambique —da Silva, Terezinha; Andrade,
Ximena; Banze, Luisa and Pinto, Renato (trans).-2000
Available from: Centre for African Studies, University of Eduardo Mondlane
(UEM), CP 1993, Maputo. Email: ufics@zebra.uem.mz Forum
Mulher, CP 3632, Maputo, Mozambique
Email: forum@zebra.uem.mz and SARDC-WID-SAA,
PO Box 5690, Harare, Zimbabwe. |
Email: sardc@sardc.net
or widsaa@sardc.net
SARDC Maputo PO Box 957, Maputo, Mozambique
Email: sardc@maputo.sardc.net
Netherlands Institute of Southern Africa Annual Report 1999
— Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NIZA).- 1999 Available from: NIZA Prins
hendrikkade 33 PO Box 10707 NL-1001 ES Amsterdam
“Peace, Progress and Prosperity in SADC in the Millennium”: Proceedings of the
SADC Consultative Conference held in Mbabane, Swaziland 20-22 February,
2000
—SADC Secretariat.- 2000
Available from: SADC Secretariat 0095, Gaborone, Botswana
Internet: www.sadc.int
SADC Annual Report 1999 - 2000 —SADC Secretariat.- 2000
Available from: SADC Secretariat 0095, Gaborone, Botswana
Internet: www.sadc.int |
SADC Sector Annual Reports for Food, Agriculture and Natural
Resources; Culture Information and Sport; Employment and Labour; Energy; Environment and
Land Management; Finance and Investment; Health; Human Resources
Development; Gender; Industry and Trade; Mining; Tourism; Water 1999/2000
—SADC Secretariat.- 2000
Available from: SADC Secretariat 0095, Gaborone, Botswana
Internet: www.sadc.int
Zimbabwe Directory of HIV Counselling Services 2000
—Southern Africa AIDS Training (SAT) Programme.- 2000
Available from: Southern African AIDS (SAT) Programme, 3 Luck Street, PO Box
390 Kopje, Harare, Zimbabwe |
