MIT Seminar on Environmental and
Agricultural History
'Wilding the Farm or Farming the Wild'? The Evolution of Game
Ranching in Southern Africa, 1960s to the Present
Jane Carruthers
Professor of History, University of South Africa, Pretoria
Before 1960, it had been assumed that in order for modern agriculture
to prosper, the wildlife of Africa should be exterminated to make way
for domestic livestock. This paper explains how scientists involved
in animal husbandry collaborated with wildlife managers in exploring
the potential for farming wildlife for food production. Together with
ecotourism and hunting, this development has resulted in increased
numbers so that there are larger wildlife populations in South Africa
today than there were a century ago, much of them on private
property. To explain these shifts, the paper will examine the role of
governmental bureaucracy and of private landowners, as well as the
longer historical context of wildlife utilization in South Africa.
Friday, February 8, 2008
2:30 to 4:30 pm
Building E51 Room 095
Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge
Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the
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