In this Volume Poverty and The Environment: Dimensions of Sustainable Development Policy K. Osei-Hwedie 1 Comparing Land Policy and Resource Degradation in Botswana and Zimbabwe P.~ufune 21 The Seven-Year Drought, Household Food Security and Vulnerable Groups in Botswana T. T. Fako and L. ~olamu 48 The Need to Institutionalize Life-Long Environmental Education in Botswana J. ~utanyatta 71 Fencing Botswana's Commonage: A Recipe for Environmental Disaster or Conservation? O.D. Selolwane 90 AssocIated Printers