Extensive global and African scholarship exists on how decentralisation has been implemented to achieve rural growth. Pre-eminent scholars like Liihring, Mutizwa- Mangiza, Fortmann and Hankla contend that decentralisation ...

This article is a review of the dominant literature on water issues, water rights and the environment in southern Africa. Being the first in a series of reviews of different regions, it is framed through a survey of national ...