Browsing by Author "Malasha, Isaac"

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    Challenges and prospects for trans-boundary fisheries in Lakes Chiuta and Kariba
    (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2006) Whande, Webster; Malasha, Isaac; Njaya, Friday
    Community-based conservation (CBC) is a prominent feature of conservation and development policy and practice in southern Africa. It is a generic concept defining different configurations of controlling access to and use of land and natural resources in southern Africa – and has led to the development of policies and legislation in support of community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) and co-management arrangements. Both concepts largely revolve around the premise of devolution of control and management authority over natural resources to facilitate conservation and use of, and local access to, resources. A focus on regional economic integration has offered an opportunity for extending the experiences of CBNRM and comanagement to resources occurring along international boundaries. Different trans-boundary natural resources management (TBNRM) programmes have been initiated in southern Africa. The experience of two inshore fisheries on Lakes Chiuta and Kariba highlights the challenges of TBNRM, especially at local resource users’ level. A proposal for meaningful engagement of local resource-dependent people is suggested in the form of a trans-boundary commons regulated through co-management institutions. Broad implications of this suggestion, including terrestrial TBNRM progammes, are briefly discussed.
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    Contested fishing grounds: Examining the possibility of a transboundary management regime in the Lake Kariba fishery
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005) Malasha, Isaac
    Community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) programmes in the southern African region emerged as a reaction to colonial ‘fortress’ conservation policies that criminalised and marginalised local people, preventing their use of natural resources. These colonial approaches did not lead to the sustainable use of the resources. They merely contributed to continued conflicts between government agents and local users. In the immediate post-colonial period very little was done to rectify these policies. It was only in the mid-1980s that a paradigm shift towards CBNRM began to occur. The political integration brought by the formation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) presented favourable conditions for the scaling-up of these CBNRM initiatives. Transboundary natural resources management (TBNRM) projects began to be implemented in the joint-management of resources that straddle international boundaries.