African Inland Fisheries: Experiences with Co-Management and Policies of Decentralization

Lewins, R.; Béné, Christophe; Baba, Malloum Ousman; Belal, Emma; Donda, Steve; Lamine, Abbagana Mamane; Makadassou, Alassane; Na, Andi Mamane Tahir; Neiland, A.; Njaya, Friday; Ovie, S.I.; Raji, A.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2013.861564

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“…As pointed out by Barendse, Roux, Currie, Wilson, and Fabricius (2016), one limiting external factor is the government’s inadequate implementation capacity so that local governance institutions have narrow capacity to develop natural resource stewardship. This holds for wildlife as well as for fishery management (Cox, Wilson, & Pavlovich, 2016; Lewins et al., 2014; Ngwira, Kolawole, & Mbaiwa, 2013; Nkhata, Breen, & Abacar, 2009; Nunan, 2006; Sutton & Rudd, 2014).…”

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Assessing natural resource management through integrated environmental and social-economic accounting

Morton

Winter

Grote

2016

The Journal of Environment & Development

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Local natural resource management in its diverse manifestations holds core to its principles that the marginal and vulnerable households are empowered to manage valuable natural resources to improve social and economic equality and conserve biodiversity. Yet studies aiming to identify the impacts often show inconsistent results. Through constructing an integrated Environmental and Social Accounting Matrix (ESAM), we aim to assess how natural resources are used in different sectors and by different livelihoods, thus delivering different direct and indirect benefits to the community. The study was conducted in Namibia's Sikunga Conservancy, which manages wildlife and fish resources in the Zambezi region. Our village-level ESAM shows an economic structure that strongly disadvantages remote households and identifies a small sector of the economy that benefits significantly from the use of natural resources. The ESAM approach is able to isolate undesirable socioeconomic developments such as unequal benefit sharing, which hinders community development.

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“…Despite the popularity of the philosophy, the overall impact of CBNRM remains unclear (Lewins et al., 2014; Riehl, Zerriffi, & Naidoo, 2015; Silva & Mosimane, 2012). Impacts can be measured at multiple scales; at the national level, CBNRM programs appear to be having a positive impact throughout sub-Saharan Africa.…”

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Assessing natural resource management through integrated environmental and social-economic accounting

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Winter

Grote

2016

The Journal of Environment & Development

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“…The previous section has already made it clear that besides the BVC Chair, village chiefs are holding a powerful position in the Elephant Marsh Fishery; see also Lewins et al (2014) and Russell and Dobson (2011). Our interviews with fishers, village chiefs, and BVC Chairs at the Elephant Marsh revealed four roles of chiefs in the small-scale fishery, as follows: (i) A BVC Chair cannot accept a new fisher without first asking for consent from the village chief.…”

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“…The concept of BVCs was introduced in Malawi in 1991 as a government initiative under the Participatory Fisheries Management Programme (PFMP) in response to declining fish catches at Lake Malombe and the Upper Shire River (Lewins et al 2014). Since then BVCs have been adopted at the national level and supported by the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy (NFAP) (Government of Malawi 2001) as a participatory link between the Department of Fisheries (DoF) and the fishing communities.…”

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Actor-Based Design of a Management System for the Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi

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Groot

Kambewa

2016

Society & Natural Resources

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In Malawi, fishing community user groups known as beach village committees, traditional chiefs, government officers, and fishers are the key players in fisheries management. Fish catch trends at the Elephant Marsh Fishery in southern Malawi are declining. Based on interviews and participant observation, this article uses an actor-based framework (known as Action-in-Context) to unveil the issues that are crucial in devising a sustainable governance system for the fishery. We establish and propose that the key social variables for the design of a three-pillared (locally based, weak, and amorphous) resilient institution for sustainability of the Elephant Marsh Fishery are (i) the social reputation of the leaders of local fishery institutions (beach village committee leaders), and (ii) the power dynamics between traditional chiefs and these local fishery leaders. We end the article by exploring the implications of the findings on the sustainability of the fishery under rising resource pressure. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…About 15% of the respondents pushed the responsibility to the government, while 8% suggested that they pay through tax. The ecosystem management approach follows top-down in Malawi, where the government creates rules and imposes them on the local population ( Lewins et al., 2013 ). However, this approach has faced strong resistance in its implementation ( Wilson et al., 2010 ), as reflected in the negative WTP responses.…”

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Willingness to pay for the ecological restoration of an inland freshwater shallow lake: case of Lake Malombe, Malawi

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Lake Malombe is ranked among the most vulnerable inland freshwater shallow lakes in Malawi. The lake has lost over US$79.83 million ecosystem service values from 1999 to 2019 due to rapid population growth, increased poverty, landscape transformation, and over exploitation-hampering the effort to achieve United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular, life underwater (SDG 14), life on land (SDG 15), climate action (SDG 13), and no poverty (SDG 1) and Aichi Biodiversity Targets. In line with the 2021-2030 United Nations' Declaration on massive upscaling of the ecosystems restoration effort, this study applied the contingent valuation method (CVM) and binary logistic regression model to determine the public's willingness to pay (WTP) for ecosystem restoration and the influencing factors. The aim was to integrate science into policy framework to achieve a sustainable flow of ecosystem services (ESs). Qualitative data were collected by employing focus group discussion, key informant interviews, and field observation. Quantitative data were collected using structured questionnaires covering 420 households. The results revealed that 56% of the respondents were willing to pay an average of US$28.42/household/year. These respondents believed that the initiative would improve lake ESs, fish biodiversity, income level, water quality and mitigate climate change impact. Age, gender, literacy, income, social trust, institutional trust, access to extension services, period stay in the area, household distance from the lake, lake ecological dynamics impact, having the hope of reviving the lake health ecological status, perception of having lake ecological restoration program, participation in lake restoration program, access to food from the

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African Inland Fisheries: Experiences with Co-Management and Policies of Decentralization

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Assessing natural resource management through integrated environmental and social-economic accounting

Assessing natural resource management through integrated environmental and social-economic accounting

Actor-Based Design of a Management System for the Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi

Willingness to pay for the ecological restoration of an inland freshwater shallow lake: case of Lake Malombe, Malawi

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