Customary Rights and Societal Stakes of Large-Scale Tobacco Cultivation in Malawi

dc.contributor.authorMandondo, Alois
dc.contributor.authorGerman, Laura
dc.coverage.countryMalawien_US
dc.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-23T18:24:13Z
dc.date.available2011-03-23T18:24:13Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstract"This study investigates how diverse dimensions of tenure and rights to land and forest resources have shifted in relation to expanded investments in tobacco, as well as the distribution of associated social, economic and environmental costs and benefits at both local and societal scales. The study focuses on the miombo woodlands of southern Africa, with particular reference to Malawi. It uses a wide variety of methods, including detailed group discussions, desk study and informal interviews. Assessments reflect mixed fortunes across a range of sectors and scales. At the local level, the expansion of tobacco engenders fundamental shifts in customary rights, disrupting crucial livelihood and safety net functions of forested lands. Forests also bear the brunt of tobacco expansion, compounding the effects of sharply rising patterns of displacement of woodland with extraction of wood for curing and the construction of barns. Whilst tobacco-induced deforestation may be localized, the mostly negative ecological externalities associated with it may--because of the public goods nature of impaired ecological services--extend way beyond the confines of the local. However, tobacco remains the major engine for economic growth and development in Malawi, its forest and ecological and other impacts notwithstanding--with the identification of strategies for re-orienting the development onto a more sustainable path remaining a major unresolved challenge."en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdatesJanuary 10-14en_US
dc.identifier.citationconferenceSustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commonsen_US
dc.identifier.citationconflocHyderabad, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/7140
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectinvestmenten_US
dc.subjectcustomary lawen_US
dc.subjectwoodlandsen_US
dc.subject.sectorLand Tenure & Useen_US
dc.subject.sectorSocial Organizationen_US
dc.titleCustomary Rights and Societal Stakes of Large-Scale Tobacco Cultivation in Malawien_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
dc.type.methodologyCase Studyen_US
dc.type.publishedunpublisheden_US

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