Browsing Okavango Research Institute (ORI) by Author "Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare"
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Agrarian reforms and the African green revolution
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare (Emerald, www.emeraldinsight.com, 2012)Agricultural intensification is central to the Green Revolution (GR) programme. This initiative, which dates back to early 1940s, revolves around the development of high yielding and disease resistant seed varieties that ... -
Claims and counterclaims: institutional arrangements and farmers response to the delivery and adoption of innovations in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Noga, Sekondeka Ronnie; Masunga, Gaseitsiwe Smollie; Thakadu, Olekae Tsompi; Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare (Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2017)Purpose: This article examined how institutional factors influencing the promotion of two elephant crop-raiding deterrent innovations (ECDIs) introduced to farmers through a ministry-based extension system in the Okavango ... -
Classifying soils: points of convergence in indigenous knowledge engagement with scientific epistemologies
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare; Cooper, Garrick Wayne (Taylor & Francis Online; https://www.tandfonline.com/, 2022-02-25)While cultures are diverse in nature, there are many similarities between them. This is the case with African and Maōri cultures. Local people largely view their realities in a similar way. The question as to whether there ... -
Climate variability and rural livelihoods: how households perceive and adapt to climatic shocks in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare; Motsholapheko, Moseki Ronald; Ngwenya, Barbara Ntombi; Olekae, Thakadu (American Meteorological Society; https://journals.ametsoc.org, 2016-04)Climate variability and change have adverse effects on agricultural production and other livelihood strategies of the rural households. The paper hypothesizes that rural households naturally devise means of overcoming the ... -
Fisheries governance, management and marginalisation in developing countries: Insights from Botswana
Mosepele, Ketlhatlogile; Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare (Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2017-06-13)Globally, fish is a key source of food and nutrition security for all marginalized riparian communities. This is particularly so for Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Indeed, debates about power relations on fisheries ... -
Flood risk communication within flood prone communities of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Thakadu, Olekae Tsompi; Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare; Sommer, Christoph; Mthombeni, Ndumiso; Ditlhakeng, Phatsimo (Botswana Notes and Records;http://journals.ub.bw/index.php/bnr/, 2017-07-05)Floods have attracted much research attention and great improvements in forecasting them have been achieved to-date. However, the number of people affected by floods is increasing and is bound to soar as hydro-meteorological ... -
Inter-disciplinarity, development studies, and development practice
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare (Taylor & Francis; https://www.tandfonline.com/, 2010-03-09)The article primarily seeks to show the interconnectedness of diverse academic disciplines and their crucial role in development practice. It sheds light on the meanings of developmentrelated concepts and seeks to delineate ... -
Is local knowledge peripheral? The future of Indigenous knowledge in research and development
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare (Sage; https://journals.sagepub.com/, 2022-04-11)The concepts of the core, semi-periphery, and periphery emanated from a mix of dependency and postmodernist thoughts, which rejected the notion of a Third World from which local knowledge emanates and develops. That local ... -
Political economy of integrated soil fertility management in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare; Mogobe, Oarabile; Magole, Lapologang (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, https://www.waset.org, 2013)Although many factors play a significant role in agricultural production and productivity, the importance of soil fertility cannot be underestimated. The extent to which small farmers are able to manage the fertility of ... -
Responding to climate change through joint partnership: insights from the Okavango Delta in Botswana
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare; Wolski, Piotr; Ngwenya, Barbara; Mmopelwa, Gagoitseope; Olekae, Thakadu (Emerald, www.emeraldinsight.com, 2014)Purpose: Climate change continues to pose a serious challenge to mankind. Given their socio-economic and vulnerable situations, resource-poor farmers will be hard hit and likely to be the most affected group in Africa – ... -
Rural livelihoods and community local knowledge of risk of malaria transmission in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Maphane, Dirontsho; Ntombi, Barbara Ntombi; Motsholapheko, Moseki Ronald; Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare; Magole, Lapologang (Botswana Society; http://journals.ub.bw/, 2017)The Okavango Delta in north-western Botswana is a malaria endemic area. Most livelihood activities in this area are seasonal, usually coinciding with malaria season (November-April). The objective of this paper is to assess ... -
Science, social scientisation and hybridisation of knowledges
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare (Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2019-07-27)The contestation between mainstream science and counter-science is a longstanding phenomenon. The current issue of Science as Culture addresses the need for scientists to consciously engage in a broad-spectrum science that ... -
Small farmers' responses to scientific early warning on weather in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare; Motsholapheko, Moseki Ronald; Ngwenya, Barbara Ntombi; Ananias, Moses; Makebea, Melda Nonhle; Kaisara, Matshidiso Tshidi (Canadian Center of Science and Education, http://www.ccsenet.org, 2018-11-29)Although formal channels of communication exist for conveying early warning scientific weather messages, it is widely believed that small-scale farmers continue to utilize traditional practices in obtaining weather ... -
Soils, people and policy: land resource management conundrum in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare; Mogobe, Oarabile; Magole, Lapologang (Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, https://www.jaeid.it, 2017-06-26)The multi-faceted aspects of natural resource governance underscore the complex nature of the subject. The intricacies associated with the skewed power relations between those who allocate these resources (land, in this ... -
Soils, science and the politics of knowledge: how African smallholder farmers are framed and situated in the global debates on integrated soil fertility management
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare (Elsevier, http://www.elsevier.com/, 2013)The paper addresses an important and often overlooked cultural aspect of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This relates to how different policy organisations conceptualise soil management problem, its ... -
Survival at a cost: how artisanal fishers perceive occupational hazards in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare; Bolobilwe, Kabo (Taylor & Francis Online, https://www.tandfonline.com, 2018-10-30)Fishing is regarded as an important livelihood activity in any riparian communities. People’s attitudes and perceptions of occupational risks associated with fishing are engendered by certain socio-cultural norms. This ... -
Twenty reasons why local knowledge will remain relevant to development
Kolawole, Oluwatoyin Dare (Taylor & Francis; https://www.tandfonline.com/, 2015-10-05)Local knowledge has continued to gain popularity among development practitioners in the last four decades. However, the future of local knowledge seems hazy to some academics and researchers, perhaps due to the methodological ...