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The Elephant in the Room: Poverty Alleviation and Community Based Natural Resource Management

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Event details

Seminar

Date & time

Tuesday 22 June 2010
12.30pm–1.30pm

Venue

Acton Lecture Theatre, #132 JG Crawford Building, ANU

Speaker

Helen Suich

Contacts

Henry Keenan
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Community based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes in southern Africa are typically designed to devolve the rights to wildlife on communal lands to
local institutions in order to achieve the dual objectives of biodiversity conservation and the improvement of rural livelihoods and poverty alleviation. Though programmes and projects have been running in most countries across the region for more than a decade, their ability to achieve these dual goals is not certain. Empirical evidence from case studies in Mozambique and Namibia, about how CBNRM activities impact on the multiple dimensions of household-level poverty, and residents’ perceptions regarding these impacts, will be presented.

Helen Suich is currently a PhD student in the Crawford School of Economics and Government. She has worked across southern Africa on issues relating to poverty alleviation, sustainable economic development and natural resource management. She is co-editing a book with Luca Tacconi and Sango Mahanty, entitled ‘Payments for Environmental Services, Forest Conservation and Climate Change: Livelihoods in the REDD?’, which will be published later this year.

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