| | Botswana faces three major problems in the next two decades: poverty, unemployment and environmental degradation, the latter intricately linked to the first two. Under existing environmental conditions the problems of poverty and agricultural under-production cannot be tackled adequately, without first addressing the problem of environmental conservation. Molutsi traces the history of conservation policies, arguing that as in many post-colonial states following a capitalist path of development, conservation and sound environmental management are reduced to ideology; discusses the implications of the TGLP (Tribal Grazing Land Policy); looks at how a few have accumulated large tracts of land as well as the policies of President's Khama and Masire. |
