[E&E seminars] MIT Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, FRIDAY 2-8-2008

[Margo Collett]

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 
mailing list, please contact Margo Collett at 
<mailto:mcollet at mit.edu>mcollett at mit.edu.
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