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Poverty Alleviation and Community Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa

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Type: Conference Paper
Author: Suich, Helen
Conference: Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons
Location: Cheltenham, England
Conf. Date: July 14-18, 2008
Date: 2008
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1447
Sector: Social Organization
Land Tenure & Use
Region: Africa
Subject(s): CBRM
land tenure and use
natural resources
poverty alleviation
wildlife
IASC
Abstract: "Community based natural resource management (CBNRM) can refer to a range of different interventions, and can imply different meanings in different countries. In most southern African countries, CBNRM programmes are typically designed to devolve rights over wildlife and/or forestry (and sometimes other resources) on communal lands to local institutions. The basis of the devolution of management responsibility over these resources is that, if the benefits that can be derived from the use of the resources can outweigh their management costs, communities will have the incentive to sustainably manage the resources. "Naturally, programmes evolve differently in each country according to different social, political and economic influences. However, they do have common central objectives, which typically relate primarily to the conservation of biodiversity and secondarily to contributing to rural economic development, poverty alleviation and/or the improvement of rural livelihoods."

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