Grazing into the future: Policy making for South African communal rangelands

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• Respectively, Post‐doctoral Fellow and Doctoral Student, Department of Livestock and Pasture Science, University of Fort Hare, Alice; Master's Student, Department of Botany, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch. The Foundation for Research Development (FRD) provided us with generous sponsorship. Norman Owen‐Smith, Charlie Shackle‐ton, Patrick Masika, William Beinart and an anonymous referee are gratefully acknowledged for their contributions to this article.
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