Progressing community-based natural resource management in Zimbabwe
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Date
2014
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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Zimbabwe is ushering in a new era of community-based
natural resource management (CBNRM). It is moving away
from place-based wildlife management initiatives to more
internationally linked forestry carbon projects which focus on
the sequestration of carbon through conservation of forests and
the subsequent trading of carbon credits. Learning lessons from
the varied and complex history of Zimbabwe’s main CBNRM
project – the Communal Areas Management Programme for
Indigenous Resource Use (CAMPFIRE) – is necessary to ensure
a successful progression of environmentally and socially just
CBNRM in Zimbabwe. As such, the Sustainability Research
Institute (University of Leeds, with funding from the University
of Leeds Sustainable Agricultural Bursary and the ESRC) and the Centre for Applied Social Sciences (University of Zimbabwe,
with funding from STEPS, IDS, Sussex) held a workshop at the
CASS Trust, Harare, in May 2014, titled ‘Progressing CBNRM in
Zimbabwe’. The aim of the workshop was to progress debates
from the traditionally observed contradictory literature and
analysis on the successes and failures of CAMPFIRE into ways
forward, given the new CBNRM context emerging within the
country. The workshop was attended by a range of professionals
from policy making, practice (at both local and national level)
and research in the CBNRM arena, who together discussed how
to progress CBNRM, both theoretically and practically, given
the rise of international emphasis on climate change mitigation
and the emergence of subsequent new CBNRM-based projects
(i.e. REDD+, co-management etc.). The workshop ultimately
identified multiple lessons, including those listed on page 1. It
also flagged related areas of urgent focus.
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Keywords
Natural resource, Zimbabwe, Carbon, Conservation, Indigenous Resource
Citation
Harrison, EP. et al. (2014). Progressing community-based natural resource management in Zimbabwe. Policy Brief 35, Bellville: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape