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<div align="center"><b><i>MIT Seminar on Environmental and <br>
Agricultural History<br>
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</i>‘Wilding the Farm or Farming the Wild’? The Evolution of Game
Ranching in Southern Africa, 1960s to the Present<br>
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Jane Carruthers<br>
Professor of History, University of South Africa, Pretoria<br>
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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.<br>
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<div align="center"><b>Friday, February 8, 2008<br>
2:30 to 4:30 pm<br>
Building E51 Room 095<br>
Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge<br>
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</b>Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing
list, please contact Margo Collett at
<a href="mailto:mcollet@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>. <br>
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