scholarly journals Livestock policy and trade issues in SADC : policy and trade issues

2009 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Hulman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
African Development ◽  
Development Unit ◽  
Livestock Policy ◽  
Livestock Development

As from 2001, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has embarked on a course to deepen regional integration through restructuring. Under the new structure SADC has centralised the coordination of its activities to the Secretariat in Gaborone. The former Sector Coordinating Units have been merged into four directorates, one of which is the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) Directorate, which comprises, amongst others, the Livestock Development Unit (LDU).

Bringing social cohesion into the equation of regional integration: The case of Southern Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ndangwa Noyoo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
The Political ◽  
African Development ◽  
Political Landscape

Social cohesion is a powerful force that has helped to change and reshape the political landscape of southern Africa in the last four decades. However, social cohesion is rarely factored into regional integration endeavors in this part of Africa, which are in the main, geared towards economic imperatives. With economic development as the primary objective of nations in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the assumption here seems to centre on the notion that once the region has been economically integrated, then human development would follow. This thinking is in line with the neo-liberal paradigm of “trickle down” economics which has not been very helpful to states of this region. Nonetheless, this lop-sided view of regional integration has a history.

scholarly journals On Decolonising Borders and Regional Integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Inocent Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
African Development ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Management Regimes ◽  
Free Movement Of Persons ◽  
Integration Project

This paper uses insights gained from a qualitative study of informal cross border actors on selected Southern African Development Community (SADC) borders to argue for the decolonisation of these borders. It is asserted that, although SADC citizens enjoy a 90-day free visa in member states, this should not be simplistically taken to mean that there are “open borders” and free movement of persons in region. The recognition that a border “open” to formal actors may be closed to informal cross border actors based on issues of power and class is the foundation for the decolonisation of these borders, a process which should articulate to the regional integration project in the region. Such a decolonisation of borders should recognise in policy and/or border management regimes all cross-border actors, especially non-state actors, who are criminalized and rendered invisible through cross border discourses and policies. This point is worth emphasizing, because most people who cross African borders may not be the formal actors such as multinational corporations (MNCs) and/or their proxies who are favoured by cross border policies, but ordinary people such as informal cross border traders and border citizens, who need decolonised borders for them to enjoy freedom of movement, rather than being depoliticized and relegated to the subaltern who cannot speak, let alone move.

The Short Happy Life of the SADC Tribunal: the Perils of Regional Integration in Southern Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Mwiza Jo Nkhata
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
Member States ◽  
African Development ◽  
Happy Life

AbstractUnder the Treaty Establishing the Southern African Development Community (the Treaty) one of the institutions of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was the Southern African Development Community Tribunal (the Tribunal). The Tribunal was established as the sole judicial organ of SADC. The Tribunal was established as part of the reorganisation of regional integration efforts within Southern Africa. The global atmosphere prevailing at the time the Tribunal was established, together with the lofty statements in the SADC’s founding instruments, suggest that there was a regional commitment to the ideals of human rights, rule of law and democracy among SADC member States. The Tribunal’s life, however, was short-lived. This paper analyses the prospects and lessons for regional integration within the SADC region from the perspective of the disbanding of the Tribunal and attempts to decipher the implications of the disbanding for regional integration in Southern Africa.

scholarly journals Regional Economic Integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC): Analysing the Dynamics and Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-346
Author(s):  
Johannes Muntschick
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Global South ◽  
Southern African Development Community ◽  
Regional Economic Integration ◽  
Institutional Performance ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
African Development ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

This article analyses the dynamics and performance of regional economic integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It proposes an innovative theoretical approach to the analysis of regionalism that refers to cooperation theory and takes the impact of external actors explicitly into account. The motivation for this research stems from the observation of a new wave of regionalism in the Global South. Many of these new or reformed regional integration organisations (RIOs) comprise of developing countries, particularly in Africa. In contrast to expectations of most mainstream integration theories, new regionalisms in the Southern Hemisphere have come into existence and show considerable degrees of dynamics and institutional performance. However, there is evidence that regionalisms in the Global South are less stable than in the North and not always entirely under control of regional actors only. This puzzling observation, of which the SADC gives an example, has motivated research for this article. Its central aim is to explain the recent integration dynamics and performance of the organisation in its key policy area, namely the economy. By applying a situation-structural approach to analyse and explain the development of institutionalised regional integration, the author argues that patterns of strong and asymmetric interdependence between regional and extra-regional actors may have an ambivalent impact on the genuine structure of regional cooperation problems, institution-building and institutional performance. The article illustrates and explains this on the example of SADC’s key economic integration projects: the SADC Free Trade Area and the scheduled SADC Customs Union.

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