The study was undertaken in Tanzania to assess the effect of some macro-economic policies on livelihood strategies for households within or in close proximity in miombo woodlands. The focus was on how their responses are impacting on the management and use of the woodlands. Data were collected at...
For co-management of conservation areas to be effective, detailed information on local people's use of natural resources is essential. One method to obtain some of that information, a household record keeping study, is given. It is simple to implement and analyse, and provides useful, quantitativ...
Colfer, C.J.P.
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Wadley, R.L.
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Salim, A.
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Dudley, R.G.
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[Understanding patterns of resource use and consumption: a prelude to co-management]
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Understanding patterns of resource use and consumption: a prelude to co-management
Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Managing multiple and common-property resources, case 8: governance of common-property resources]
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Managing multiple and common-property resources, case 8: governance of common-property resources
Effective community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has been practiced for decades in Malawi where traditional leaders command much power over their subjects. Political and economic changes over the years have weakened the powers of the local leaders, and made it difficult for them to m...
Kayambazinthu, D.
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[Empowering communities to manage natural resources: where does the power lie?: the case of Malawi]
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Empowering communities to manage natural resources: where does the power lie?: the case of Malawi
The study provides a comparative analysis of the devolution and empowerment process in 14 case studies drawn from eight countries in southern Africa. Each case study examined the extent to which policy and legislation devolves significant control over decision making and benefit flows to communit...
Shackleton, S.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Devolution in natural resource management: institutional arrangements and power shifts: a synthesis of case studies from southern Africa]
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Devolution in natural resource management: institutional arrangements and power shifts: a synthesis of case studies from southern Africa
The overall aim of this study was to explore what the development community can do, or facilitate, to significantly improve livelihoods in semi-arid systems.The authors based their analysis on two case-study sites in the communal lands of southern Zimbabwe. The main tool was a detailed livelihood...
Campbell, Bruce M.
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Jeffrey, S.
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Kozanayi, W.
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Luckert, M.
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Mutamba, M.
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Zindi, C.
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[Household livelihoods in semi-arid regions: options and constraints]
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Household livelihoods in semi-arid regions: options and constraints
This document is about rural development in Africa. It is a preliminary statement of lessons learned from more than 20 years of natural resource-based development in rural Africa. Twenty years ago, natural resource management programs took a predominantly technical approach and followed by econom...
United States Agency for International Development
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[Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa]
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Nature, wealth, and power: emerging best practice for revitalizing rural Africa
The last decade has seen profound overhauls of governance in many tropical countries. Countries have adopted new economic policies, very much influenced by free-market thinking, and a reduced regulatory role of the state and its subsidiaries. This coincided with widespread decentralization of gov...
Jong, W. de
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Becker, M.
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Ruiz, S.
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Gottwald, C.
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[The impact of decentralised forest governance: a case study from Bolivia]
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The impact of decentralised forest governance: a case study from Bolivia
This paper evaluates the impacts of natural resource devolution policies in several Asian and southern African countries from the perspective of local people. Devolution outcomes are assessed in terms of who has greater benefits and decision-making authority. We also examine the factors that have...
Wollenberg, Eva K.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Shackleton, S.
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Edmunds, D.
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Shanley, P.
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[Central control of local resource management: the impacts of devolution]
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Central control of local resource management: the impacts of devolution
Tropical biodiversity continues to erode unabated, which calls for ecologists to address the problem directly, placing less reliance on indirect interventions, such as community-based development schemes. Ecologists must become more assertive in providing scientifically formulated and adaptively ...
Toit, J.T. du
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Walker, B.H.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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[Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists]
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Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists