Workshop

On 13 September 2007, our first workshop was held at Sutherland in the
Northern Cape. The proceedings included the following papers:

Keynote address: Ms Sue van der Merwe, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Prof Etienne Nel (Rhodes University), Trevor Hill (UKZN), Doreen Atkinson and Bev Taylor: "A Century of Change: Demographic and economic change in the Eastern Cape Karoo"
Doreen Atkinson: Differing worlds: Four provincial perspectives in the Karoo.
Jannie Cloete: The Drylands and the Desertification Paradigm
Dr Nicky Allsopp: "Rangelands-based livelihoods in arid areas: Moving towards poverty reduction"
Prof Izak van der Merwe: Assessing the economic potential of Small Towns in arid areas: The case of the Western Cape Province
Dr Kopano Taole: Building intellectual capacity in the arid areas
Prof Mike de Jongh: "Poverty and marginalisation in the arid areas: The case of the Great Karoo descendants of a First People"
Mark Ingle: Arid Areas Products, Markets, Services and Technologies
Lochner Marais: Desert Knowledge Australia and ARIDNet