Rural Livelihoods, poverty reduction and food security in southern Africa: is CBNRM the answer?
Arntzen, Jaap
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Setlhogile, Tshepo
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Barnes, Jon
Rural Livelihoods, poverty reduction and food security in southern Africa: is CBNRM the answer?
Very useful review for southern Africa on the impacts of CBNRM on rural livelihoods, poverty and food security particullary because of the authors' backgrounds in economics. Has a useful discussion in the comparative advantages between livestock and wildlife, suggesting that one does not necessarily always outcompete the other in terms of fianncial and economic returns - it depends on the circustances and conditions on the ground. Concludes that CBNRM is economically efficient, contributing positively to national income and employment. Also that CBNRM appears to generate significant positive financial benefits at community level, even considering the costs of living with wildlife (human-wildlife conflict). However, concludes that the picture is less clear regarding the impact of CBNRM on the income and welfare of individual households. CBNRM is complementary to other rural land uses, rather than replacing them.
Brian Jones
Independent consultant
2013-01-08
USAID
- Regional case study
- Meta-analysis of literature
- Comparative analysis of cases or tools
★★★★
- Africa - Southern
- Wildlife
- Biodiversity
- Livestock
- Rangeland
- Forest
- NTFPs
- Tourism
- Biodiversity
- Forest Carbon
- Lessons learned (Cautionary Tale)
- Lessons learned (Success Story)
- Governance - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
- Economic - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
- Resources - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
