The Okavango River Basin is a transboundary basin which serves as an important source of water resources for three riparian Southern African states, namely Angola, Botswana, and Namibia. If not properly managed, the Okavango ...

Generally, rural households pursue all year round natural and non-natural resource-based livelihood systems to diversify these options in order to cope with risks emanating from a range of shocks and stressors. Artisanal ...

The world’s largest inland delta, located on the Okavango River in Botswana, faces major changes in the annual flooding size and duration due to climatic shifts and increased water use. We examined several parameters of a ...

The Okavango Delta, Botswana, is a major wetland surrounded by the Kalahari Desert. The delta supports a diverse fish fauna that depends on highly seasonal flooding from inflowing rivers, and on the actions of ecosystem ...

The connectivity of the Okavango Delta to its temporary floodplains may reduce due to threats of increasing human water demands and climate change. Microinvertebrates in aquatic systems have a regulatory effect on juvenile ...

This paper reviews the fisheries management question of inland (floodplain) systems in the developing world and proposes a paradigm shift in approach. Inland fisheries management is largely based on classical fisheries ...

The Okavango Delta, Botswana, is a major wetland surrounded by the Kalahari Desert. The delta supports a diverse fish fauna that depends on highly seasonal flooding from inflowing rivers, and on the actions of ecosystem ...

Communities in and around the Okavango Delta are still highly dependent on natural resources, and indigenous knowledge pertaining to the use and management of these resources has helped sustain both people‟s livelihoods ...

Mercury is a neurotoxin and global pollutant, and wetlands and newly flooded areas are known to be sites of enhanced production of monomethylmercury, the form of mercury that is readily biomagnified in aquatic food chains ...

The importance of fish, and in particular small fish, for sustainable and healthy livelihoods in Africa, as well as their strong relationship with climate driven water dynamics are generally undervalued and little understood ...