The political ecology of poverty alleviation in Zimbabwe's Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE)

Logan, B. Ikubolajeh; Moseley, William G

doi:10.1016/s0016-7185(01)00027-6

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“…This philosophy attempts to link the costs of managing the resource with the benefits derived from the natural resource. CAMPFIRE has been operating in Zimbabwe since 1989, and has largely been restricted to buffer zones adjacent to national parks (Logan and Moseley 2002). CAMPFIRE programs went through a period of intense development during the 1990s and have inevitably suffered from the recent crisis in the country; however, in that first decade, there were some important signs of success but also some considerable difficulties (Fischer et al 2011).…”

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CAMPFIRE and Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Local Communities Bordering Northern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe

Gandiwa¹,

Heitkönig²,

Lokhorst³

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ABSTRACT. Human-wildlife conflicts are a global problem, and are occurring in many countries where human and wildlife requirements overlap. Conflicts are particularly common near protected areas where societal unrest is large. To ease conflict, integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) have been implemented. The Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) is an example of an ICDP. We hypothesized that (i) a higher perceived effectiveness of CAMPFIRE would be associated with a decline in human-wildlife conflicts, and (ii) local communities with higher perceived effectiveness of CAMPFIRE programs would have more favorable attitudes towards problematic wild animals. Four focus group discussions and interviews with 236 respondents were conducted in four local communities adjacent to northern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe from December 2010 to August 2011. Moreover, we included data on recorded incidences of human-wildlife conflicts and CAMPFIRE financial returns to study communities between 2000 and 2010. Our results indicate that local communities showed considerable differences in how CAMPFIRE effectiveness was perceived. Local communities with higher ratings of CAMPFIRE effectiveness generally perceived a decline in human-wildlife conflicts, although some people had experienced problems with wild animals. Attitudes towards main problematic wild animals varied across the study communities and were partly associated with perceived CAMPFIRE effectiveness. Our findings partly support both of our study hypotheses. Contextual factors across the four local communities seemed to influence the perceived effectiveness of CAMPFIRE programs and attitudes towards problematic wildlife species. We recommend that decisions and actions regarding the control of problem animals be devolved to the community level in order to help reduce human-wildlife conflicts in community-based natural resources management programs.

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CAMPFIRE and Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Local Communities Bordering Northern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe

Gandiwa¹,

Heitkönig²,

Lokhorst³

et al. 2013

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“…Along with these partnership arrangements has come a powerful set of ideas about conservation on socalled community land. These ideas come from the southern African experience in which conservationists have attempted to link livelihoods to wildlife protection through CBC initiatives (Tyman 2000;Hulme and Murphree 2001;Logan and Moseley 2002;Blaikie 2006). As in the context of state conservation areas, it is important to unpack the generic notion of 'the community' in wildlife-based land reform initiatives on private land, and to critically examine the process through which very different groups of beneficiaries are conflated into a single category.…”

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Land beneficiaries as game farmers: conservation, land reform and the invention of the ‘community game farm’ in KwaZulu-Natal

Ngubane

Brooks

2013

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

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Scholarship on post-apartheid land reform includes research on land claims made to formal protected areas, such as national parks and state game reserves. Little attention has however, been paid to the question of land restitution claims on private lands, on which a range of nominally 'conservation-friendly' land-uses (including commercial hunting) have taken place. This article traces the emergence of the 'community game farm' as a product of land reform processes affecting freehold land in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.

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“…Some community-based projects in Africa have made remarkable progress (e.g., Weaver and Skyer, 2003), but most have struggled to alleviate poverty, conserve biodiversity, or both, for several reasons (Newmark and Hough, 2000). The conception and operation of community-owned enterprises have inherent uncertainties as to individual rights and communal benefits, hampering solutions that are both workable and equitable (Logan and Moseley, 2000;Mburu and Birner, 2002;Walpole and Thouless, 2005). National or local governments have been reluctant to devolve to local communities the responsibility for and ownership of-or at least rights to-land and wildlife (Child and Jones, 2006).…”

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Introduction: Conserving Wildlife in Kenya’s Ewaso Landscape

Georgiadis¹

2011

Conserving Wildlife in African Landscapes Kenya’s Ewaso Ecosystem

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The political ecology of poverty alleviation in Zimbabwe's Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE)

Cited by 67 publications

References 21 publications

CAMPFIRE and Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Local Communities Bordering Northern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe

CAMPFIRE and Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Local Communities Bordering Northern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe

Land beneficiaries as game farmers: conservation, land reform and the invention of the ‘community game farm’ in KwaZulu-Natal

Introduction: Conserving Wildlife in Kenya’s Ewaso Landscape

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