Community management of natural resources in Africa: Impacts, experiences and future directions

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, 154 pages
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English, Français
Published: September 2009
Natural Resource Issues
ISBN: 9781843697558
Product code:17503IIED

Note: Annexes have been included in the download version above (pages 155 to 190)

More than twenty years have passed since community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) rose to prominence in different parts of Africa as a strategy for rural development, local empowerment, and conservation. Led by new ideas about the merits of decentralized, collective resource governance regimes, and creative field experiments such as Zimbabwe’s CAMPFIRE, these community-based approaches evolved in a wide range of ecological, political, and social contexts across Africa. This review provides an unprecedented pan-African synthesis of CBNRM, drawing on multiple authors and a wide range of documented experiences from Southern, Eastern, Western and Central Africa. The review discusses the degree to which CBNRM has met poverty alleviation, economic development and nature conservation objectives. In its concluding chapter, the report suggests a way forward for strengthening CBNRM and addressing key challenges in the years ahead.

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Roe, D. (eds), Nelson, F. (eds) and Sandbrook, C. (eds) (2009). Community management of natural resources in Africa: Impacts, experiences and future directions. .
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