1. Presently, developing countries face a restricted choice of adaptations in comparison with the developed countries in the past. The following options have become very limited: emigration opportunities, territorial expansion, expanding the resource base through trade (in fact the reverse occurs), and economic diversification (because of protectionism in developed countries).
2. The following sections are based on Arntzen (1989). The reader is referred to this publication for more details.
3. This implies that some of the points and suggestions made in this paper may have been addressed in this new policy. This can only be assessed by an analysis of this policy at a later stage.
4. PCC in Palapye region ranges from 16 to 21 hectares per livestock unit (ha/lsu); the corresponding figure for Kgatleng is 12 to 16 ha./lsu.
5. Charges are usually flat rates per member. Therefore, the watering costs per LSU are highest for the smaller herds.
6. No estimates of the magnitude of crop damage are available. It is hard to collect reliable data by questionnaire: moreover, during the drought yields were already low regardless of whether crop damage had occurred or not.
