Category: Systemic Stories About our Natural Resource Reality
-
I Can Sleep When the Wind Blows: What Botswana’s Horticulture Needs Beyond Funding & Allocations
The parable “I Can Sleep When the Wind Blows” illustrates the importance of preparation, mirrored in agricultural practices and national budgeting. Effective industry planning, guided by STEM principles, ensures sustainable growth and stability. Without this backbone, the system falters, leading to volatility and inefficiency, hindering farmers and economic progress.
-
Horticulture Farmers Can’t Plant Blind: Why Botswana Needs a National Horticulture Coordination System
She had done everything right. Bought the seeds. Paid for inputs. Hired labour. Measured every drop of water. Watched over her crop with the kind of personal care only farmers understand. After weeks of nurturing, her cherry tomatoes gleamed on the vines — plump, red, and ready. She took them to the retailer who once…
-
When Nature Speaks … His-story of Cattle Production in Botswana
The content details the historical and contemporary dynamics of cattle populations in Southern Africa, focusing on the impacts of rinderpest, land policies, and disease control. The article traces cattle population trends in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, highlighting challenges such as malnutrition, drought, and socio-cultural values in cattle ownership, influencing production systems in the mind…
-
Centrally Coordinated Agricultural Production – What That Means For Botswana
The content discusses a model of centrally coordinated agricultural production, distinguishing it from nationalization. It highlights countries successfully using this approach, emphasizing collaboration between governments and farmer associations to meet national and export demands. The text outlines challenges faced by countries like Botswana in adopting similar systems, proposing a 10-year transformation map for improved agricultural…
-
When Nature Speaks …. by “wildlife”
The article discusses the vital relationship between humans and nature, particularly focusing on elephants and their adaptive responses to threats like poaching. It emphasizes that traditional cultures viewed nature as an indivisible entity. Current policies often fail to recognize nature’s agency, prioritizing human needs over ecological balance, which leads to detrimental consequences.
Systems Thinking Research & Leadership Development Institute (STRLDi) 
You must be logged in to post a comment.