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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Chibememe, Gladman |
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Conference:
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Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons |
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Location:
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Cheltenham, England |
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Conf. Date:
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July 14-18, 2008 |
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Date:
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2008 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2275
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Sector:
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General & Multiple Resources
Social Organization |
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Region:
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Africa |
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Subject(s):
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participatory management
conservation
resource management
common pool resources
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Abstract:
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"The Chibememe Community in Chiredzis Sangwe communal lands , Zimbabwe have in the last eight years been, managing agro-biodiversity resources (traditional seed), forest and wildlife resources communally for the benefit of both biodiversity and local community livelihoods in semi- arid environments. Seed is a common property resource in most communities in Zimbabwe and hence the need to effectively manage indigenous or traditional crops to secure seed security, diversity and sovereignty. Appropriate community technological mechanisms are put in place by the community to properly manage traditional crops for both and seed sovereignty and security. These include the use of water harvesters and infiltration pits to harvest water to supply to crops which are managed in traditional systems that promote integrated crop and pest management (multiple and intercropping). A number of communal natural resource management systems are also used by the community to manage forest and wildlife resource including fish, animals, fruit and medicinal trees.
"The Chibememe community has used a number of ways to communicate locally and nationally these techniques and initiatives for managing common property resources (agro-biodiversity, forest and wildlife). Means to communicating these community initiatives vary from carrying out of community cycle rides, drama performance and construction of a community based environmental information centre. The initiative has resulted in surrounding communities getting consciousness and their capacity built to manage their commons. Through this initiative the community as successfully participated in national and global policy development on Access and Benefit Sharing."
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