Land reforms that exclude the poor: the case of Botswana

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Table 1: Estimated development costs of various ranch sizes

Area in hectares	Development costs
3600	P225,000.00
4900	P279,000.00
6400	P298,000.00
P1 = approximately US$0.15. Source: Macala et al. (2001).

Table 2: Cattle ownership (%) in the traditional sector for selected years

Year	1980	1983	1986	1987	1995	1999
Households with no cattle	27.88	28.90	36.49	38.51	33.13	45.91
Farms with 40 cattle or fewer	51.38	54.15	49.58	46.21	52.54	41.74
Farms with 41–100 cattle	14.00	12.56	9.04	10.21	8.98	8.17
Farms with more than 100 cattle	6.75	4.39	4.08	4.99	4.54	4.18
Source: GoB (2003b).

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