The economics and institutional economics of wildlife on private land in Africa

Child, Brian; Musengezi, Jessica; Parent, Gregory; Child, Graham

doi:10.1186/2041-7136-2-18

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“…To the contrary, however, role players within the sector believe that the transition to wildlife ranching has had a positive impact, namely, contributing toward overall economic growth, creating a number of skilled and semiskilled employment opportunities, as well as furnishing a source of foreign exchange, with these benefits spilling over to various recipients and sectors. These views are supported by the studies of Chardonnet et al (2002), Van der Merwe, Saayman and Krugell (2007), Musengezi (2010), Booth (2010), Saayman, Van der Merwe and Rossouw (2011a;2011b), and Child et al (2012), who revealed that the wildlife sector has the potential to contribute significantly toward economic growth and development. For example, results from a case study by Musengezi (2010), which included eight properties near the Kruger National Park, reveal that the financial returns of wildlife properties exceed those of extensive commercial beef production and provide a significant number of employment opportunities.…”

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“…Analogous research by Van der Merwe et al (2007) and Saayman et al (2011a;2011b) not only discloses the significant contribution of the hunting industry toward real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment, it also reveals noteworthy spill-over effects toward the rest of the economy. Moreover, PriceWaterhouse (1994), as well as Taylor (2002) and Langholz and Kerley (2006), as cited by Child et al (2012), conclude that wildlife enterprises not only create employment opportunities, but also more specialised employment opportunities, which increase wage bills some 20-to 32-fold. Nonetheless, these findings have not encumbered any of the controversies around the economic impact of the wildlife ranching sector.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The South African wildlife ranching sector: A Social Accounting Matrix Leontief multiplier analysis

Cloete

Rosouw

2014

Acta Commercii

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The South African wildlife ranching sector: A Social Accounting Matrix Leontief multiplier analysis

Cloete

Rosouw

2014

Acta Commercii

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“…Kenya's long-standing hunting and trade bans, strongly supported by international NGOs, have failed to prevent substantial wildlife losses and may have even facilitated them in the face of strong incentives to convert wildlife habitat to conventional agricultural uses (Norton-Griffiths 2010, Ogutu et al 2016). This stands in stark contrast with southern African countries that have employed the sustainable use approach: by enabling regulated and culturally appropriate commercial wildlife harvesting with meaningful benefits flowing to relevant local people, they have witnessed impressive expansion of managed wildlife habitats (Child et al 2012, Child andChild 2015).…”

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African wildlife conservation and the evolution of hunting institutions

Sas‐Rolfes

2017

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Hunting regulation presents a significant challenge for contemporary global conservation governance. Motivated by various incentives, hunters may act legally or illegally, for or against the interests of conservation. Hunter incentives are shaped by the interactions between unevenly evolving formal and informal institutions, embedded in socio-ecological systems. To work effectively for conservation, regulatory interventions must take these evolving institutional interactions into account. Drawing on analytical tools from evolutionary institutional economics, this article examines the trajectory of African hunting regulation and its consequences. Concepts of institutional dynamics, fit, scale, and interplay are applied to case studies of rhinoceros and lion hunting to highlight issues of significance to conservation outcomes. These include important links between different forms of hunting and dynamic interplay with institutions of trade. The case studies reveal that inappropriate formal regulatory approaches may be undermined by adaptive informal market responses. Poorly regulated hunting may lead to calls for stricter regulations or bans, but such legal restrictions may in turn perversely lead to more intensified and organised illegal hunting activity, further undermining conservation objectives. I conclude by offering insights and recommendations to guide more effective future regulatory interventions and priorities for further research. Specifically, I advocate approaches that move beyond simplistic regulatory interventions toward more complex, but supportive, institutional arrangements that align formal and informal institutions through inclusive stakeholder engagement.

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“…Hoods of their community -stealing from the rich and redistributing back to the poor (Child, Musengez, Parent, & Child, 2012). It is possible that such a scenario was also present on these farms in Namibia.…”

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Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

Rust¹

2018

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Many carnivore populations were in decline throughout much of the 20 th century, but due to recent conservation policies, their numbers are stabilising or even increasing in some areas of the world. This, compounded with human population growth, has caused increased livestock depredation by carnivores, which threatens farmer livelihoods, particularly those in developing countries such as Namibia. How to resolve this so-called "conflict" between carnivores and livestock farmers remains challenging, in part because some mitigation strategies have proven somewhat ineffective or unacceptable. By using a case-study approach on the commercial farmlands of northcentral Namibia, I aimed to understand the complexity of the human dimensions affecting coexistence between carnivores and people in an unprotected working landscape. Specifically, my objectives were to 1) develop a participatory decisionmaking exercise to analyse the views of stakeholders on how they would like carnivores to be managed in unprotected lands, 2) understand how the media framed financial incentives to improve human-carnivore coexistence, and 3) determine if there were any underlying social, economic or political causes of negative human-carnivore interactions on commercial livestock farms.To answer objective 1, I developed a new decision-making exercise that combined Q-methodology and the Delphi technique to determine whether a diverse group of stakeholders could agree on how to manage carnivores on commercial farmland. A strong agreement was reached by participants: providing conservation education and training on livestock husbandry were acceptable and effective ways to improve coexistence with carnivores. This new also method highlighted areas of disagreement between stakeholders and showed that there were two different narratives on how carnivores should be managed. This method could be used by policy makers to help with participatory decision-making for resolving other conservation conflicts.To answer objective 2, I undertook content analysis of national newspapers to determine how the media framed articles on financial incentives to mitigate this conservation conflict. The most common (30%) financial incentive discussed was compensation -many (61%) of these articles framed compensation positively. Niki Rust © 2015However, upon categorising these articles into those where respondents were enrolled in compensation schemes compared with those who were not, a clear pattern emerged: articles were more likely (89%) to be framed ambivalently or negatively when respondents had experience of this financial incentive compared with respondents that did not. These results can help conservationists plan more effective communication interventions and anticipate issues that can affect the success of mitigation strategies.To answer objective 3, I undertook eight months of participant observation on livestock farms and interviewed 69 respondents and found that reported livestock depredation was associated with increased instances of poaching of wildl...

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The economics and institutional economics of wildlife on private land in Africa

Cited by 73 publications

References 23 publications

The South African wildlife ranching sector: A Social Accounting Matrix Leontief multiplier analysis

The South African wildlife ranching sector: A Social Accounting Matrix Leontief multiplier analysis

African wildlife conservation and the evolution of hunting institutions

Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

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