CAMPFIRE - the political ecology of poverty alleviation, wildlife utilisation and biodiversity conservation in Zimbabwe

Abstract: The Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources was initiated with the main goal of alleviating poverty in peripheral rural areas of Zimbabwe that have an abundance of wildlife. This was to be achieved by granting to the rural communities the right to the sustainable use of wildlife. It is expected that the people will protect this resource, which they are allowed to use, and that thus large populations of different species of wildlife will be preserved long-term. The study revealed that a large number of actors are involved in the programme at different hierarchical levels and that they often have differing or even contradictory interests. In some districts there has actually been a precipitous rise in CAMPFIRE revenues in the past ten years, especially from hunting tourism. Nevertheless, in all districts this revenue is rather modest, and it has not alleviated the serious poverty of the programme's target group, the rural population. Because the populations of ga.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/2482

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
CAMPFIRE - the political ecology of poverty alleviation, wildlife utilisation and biodiversity conservation in Zimbabwe ; volume:56 ; number:2 ; year:2002
Erdkunde ; 56, Heft 2 (2002)

Urheber
Vorlaufer, Karl

DOI
10.3112/erdkunde.2002.02.06
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410281844132.640454017276
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