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Why African community conservation is here to stay

Resource Africa Jun 13, 2022 0 Comments

Why African community conservation is here to stay Local communities find themselves in the middle of a tug-of-war between two distinct schools of thought. On the one side, the sustainable use of resources is supported by policies and legislation of several southern African countries, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, among other...

CBNRM: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

Resource Africa Nov 19, 2020 0 Comments

CBNRM: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone by Dr Shylock Muyengwa Do community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes help rural communities in southern Africa? There is a long-running disagreement over just how much CBNRM contributes towards the welfare of communities, in terms of health, jobs, poverty alleviation, etc. Working in rural communities throughout...