Analyzing the Agricultural Livelihood Strategic Components in the Zambezi Region, Namibia

Nyambe, Jacob M.; Belete, A.

doi:10.9734/ajaees/2018/28619

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“…Scholars agree that conservation is a significant constraint for agricultural development (Nyambe & Belete 2018;Gargallo 2020). This study provides an explanation for the exclusionary effects: commercial agriculture that would allow farmers to integrate into regional AVCs and lead towards relational upgrading is merely possible due to land insecurities, restricted water access and HWC.…”

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Development visions, livelihood realities – how conservation shapes agricultural value chains in the Zambezi region, Namibia

Hulke

Kairu

Diez

2020

Development Southern Africa

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In the Zambezi region, seemingly unrelated political visions propagate two development paths: nature conservation to promote tourism and Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM), and agricultural intensification. This study examines the unintended interrelations between these top-down visions by linking upgrading possibilities in agricultural value chains (AVC) with livelihood strategies of farmers from a bottomup perspective. The results are based on qualitative field research that explains the how and why of the emergence of multiple rural development trajectories. We operationalise upgrading as actual and aspirational hanging in, stepping up and stepping out strategies. Findings show that although farmers envision stepping up their agricultural activities to better position themselves in AVCs, they remain in a strategic hanging in or downgrading state due CBNRM-related institutions. Concluding, we propose implications for CBNRM that synthesise competing development visions with actual livelihoods realities through the acknowledgment of small-scale agrarian systems rather than the crowding out of such. KEYWORDS CBNRM; agricultural value chains; livelihood strategies; conservation; Namibia Namibia's Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila expresses the ambitious goals set by the Namibian national government for economic development in the northeastern strip of the country, Zambezi region, both in the tourism and agricultural sector. These two economic development pillars are manifested in the Fifth National Development Plan (NDP5), which defines political goals to for the years 2017-2022. The modernisation of the agricultural sector is intended to improve small-scale

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Section: Development Trajectories and Resulting Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development visions, livelihood realities – how conservation shapes agricultural value chains in the Zambezi region, Namibia

Hulke

Kairu

Diez

2020

Development Southern Africa

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“…Food crop production is dominated by those who attended just primary education (50 percent) and no formal education (38 percent). In Namibia, a study carried on agricultural livelihood strategies components confirmed that 35 percent had no formal education [14]. Food crop production is in the hands of those who ended their education at primary level or no education at all.…”

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Socioeconomic and Biophysical Analyses of Food Crop Production in Mbiame Sub-Division, North West Region, Cameroon

Jaidzee

Kongnso

2018

AJAEES

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This study was undertaken to analyses the impacts of multiple socioeconomic and biophysical factors influencing food crop production in Mbiame, North West Region of Cameroon. To show this, we used a comprehensive data of socioeconomic and biophysical environment to investigate their potential determinants of food crop output. An assessment on the trend in yields showed a general decreased with soya beans (14.29 percent), maize (18.57 percent), groundnut (18.57 percent), beans (17.14 percent), cocoyam (8.57 percent), Irish potato (14.29) and cassava (8.57). A cause evaluation analysis was undertaken through a farmer participatory approach (with 150 questionnaires) and focus group discussion (Njanawa women's group, mbohnso maize producers, Rifem common initiative group, Mbohchari farmers group and Ngorin farmers group); with a 69.3 percent acceptance that socioeconomic and biophysical factors are responsible for food crop fluctuation.

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Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach

Hulke

Diez

2022

Applied Geography

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Analyzing the Agricultural Livelihood Strategic Components in the Zambezi Region, Namibia

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Development visions, livelihood realities – how conservation shapes agricultural value chains in the Zambezi region, Namibia

Development visions, livelihood realities – how conservation shapes agricultural value chains in the Zambezi region, Namibia

Socioeconomic and Biophysical Analyses of Food Crop Production in Mbiame Sub-Division, North West Region, Cameroon

Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach

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