Study site description: Boteti, Botswana

Table of Contents

1. Responsible IP partner
2. General Information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Land and resource use
   1. Settlement and agriculture
   2. Grazing
   3. Cultivation
   4. Infrastructure
   5. Wildlife conservation areas
   6. Water resource use
   7. Forest resource use
   8. Land tenure and administration
   9. Weaknesses of existing land use practices
   10. Major degradation issues due to the use of natural resources
5. Socio-economic description
6. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups
7. Past and on-going projects
8. Cited references

Settlement and agriculture

The study site is located within tribal land where land administration including allocation for different uses is the responsibility of the Ngwato Land Board. Tribal land in Botswana is communally owned hence its use is also communal except where individuals or groups of people have been granted exclusive rights to use a particular piece of land. In Botswana villages and settlements are classified into Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary centers (Government of Botswana, 1998). Tertiary centers are further classified into Tertiary I, II, III, and IV. Table 1 shows the threshold of the different sub categories.

Table 1: Settlement Hierarchy in Botswana

The study site and all the settlements surrounding it are basically rural where basic facilities may include a school, clinic, police station, tribal administration centre (known as the Kgotla) and private business holdings. But for Mopipi itself, there has been some infrastructural developments that have seen it grow into a primary center due to its proximity to the Orapa diamond mining town.