Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: What matters for community wildlife conservation?

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Ntuli, Herbert
Sundstrom, Aksel
Sjostedt, Martin
Muchapondwa, Edwin
Jagers, Sverker
Linell, Amanda

ABSTRACT

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Biodiversity, Conservation, Land

Policy Brief on, "Changes in Lake Victoria's Hydrology,Water Quality and Livelihoods". EfD-Mak Center Uganda November 2020

Submitted by Jane Anyango on

Key Messages

Lake Victoria Basin is facing a number of challenges:

Policy Brief
Agriculture, Air Quality, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Energy, Fisheries, Forestry, Land, Waste, Water

Recreation demand and pricing policy for international tourists in developing countries: evidence from South Africa

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Mukanjari, Samson
Muchapondwa, Edwin
Demeke, Eyoual Tamrat

National park agencies in Africa often lack incentives to maximize revenue, despite the decline in conservation subsidies from the State. We explore the potential of pricing policy to generate funds for extensive conservation. We estimate recreation demand by international tourists for a popular South African park, calculate the consumer surplus and find the revenue-maximizing entrance fee. Our results suggest substantial underpricing and therefore significant forgone income.

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Biodiversity, Conservation, Land, Policy Design

Environmental Implication of Sesame Production in Tanzania: A Case Study of Kilwa District, Lindi Region

Submitted by Salvatory Macha on
EfD Authors:
Lokina, Razack
Tibanywana, Julieth Julius

This paper analyses the possibilities for sustainable land use management at farm level to preserve the tropical rainforest in the Lindi region, Tanzania. It investigates the implication of agricultural production, in particular a high valued sesame production on household deforestation in Kilwa district, in Lindi region.

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Agriculture, Conservation

Welfare and forest cover impacts of incentive based conservation: Evidence from Kenyan community forest associations

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
EfD Authors:
Okumu, Boscow

This paper examines whether offering landless forest-adjacent communities options to grow appropriate food crops inside forest reserves during early stages of reforestation programmes increases incomes of low-income households and conserve forests. We consider the forest cover and household welfare impacts of a unique incentive scheme in Kenya known as the Plantation Establishment and Livelihood Improvement Scheme (PELIS). PELIS seeks to deepen community participation in forestry, and improve the livelihoods of adjacent communities.

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Conservation, Forestry

Can local communities afford full control over wildlife conservation? The case of Zimbabwe

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
EfD Authors:
Okumu, Boscow
Muchapondwa, Edwin

Wildlife is widely becoming an important vehicle for rural development in most third-world countries across the globe. With wildlife, as with other conservation and development policies, policymakers are usually not informed about the needs and wants of poor rural households and roll out programmes that are not tailor made to suit their desires, which often results in policy failure. We use a survey-based choice experiment in this paper to investigate household preferences for various attributes of a wildlife management scheme. The survey was administered in

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Conservation
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