The Future Okavango
Scientific support for sustainable land and resource management in the Okavango basin
| Research question | How to improve land-use and resource management with scientific knowledge? |
Drivers | Population increase, exploitation of water and land resources, deforestation, expansion of slash and burn agriculture and agro-industrial schemes, land cover changes, biodiversity loss, climate change, changing flood events |
| Indicators | Impoverished soils, decrease in yield levels, water extraction levels for irrigation schemes, transformation rates of natural vegetation into arable land, ecosystem integrity, biodiversity losses |
| Production systems | Agriculture (traditional, conservation, irrigation), horticulture, pastoralism, forestry, wildlife based tourism |
| Measures | Develop tools (scenarios, storylines, DSS) and strategies for sustainable land-use and river basin management |
| Country | Okavango basin (Botswana, Namibia, Angola) |
| Study sites | Chitembo (Angola), Caiundo (Angola), Mashare (Namibia), Seronga (Botswana) |
| Area | 430.000 km² |
| Duration | September 2010 to August 2015 |
