Community-based natural resource management, livelihood diversification & poverty alleviation : a case study of NG 22/23 and associated communities, Okavango Delta, northern Botswana.
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2006
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Abstract
This paper presents a case study from Ngamiland, northern Botswana where community~
based natural resource management (CBNRM), through a joint venture agreement (NA)
between a Community~based Organisation (CBO) and the private sector for nonconsumptive
tourism has been implemented with the objective of contributing to localised
poverty alleviation and livelihood diversification through employment and CBO fee
revenue. The economic contribution of these benefits is considered with respect to
commonly accepted norms and standards within the development ideology of sustainable
development and its global measurements; therefore, a brief background of the concepts
of poverty, livelihood and ecotourism is presented to provide context for the evaluation of
CBNRM as a preferred land~use in Botswana. An evaluation of the significance of wage
employment revenue and consequent remittances in the specific case study is intended to
contribute to existing studies which have primarily emphasised the contribution of CBO
fee revenue only to households. It is concluded that wage employment revenue makes a
significant contribution at a household level to localised poverty alleviation and
livelihood diversification compared to the insignificant contribution ofCBO fee revenue.
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Thesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.
Keywords
Tourism--Botswana., Natural resources, Communal--Botswana--Management--Citizen particpation., Sustainable development--Botswana., Tourism--Economic aspects--Botswana., Tourism--Community participation--Botswana., Natural resources--Botswana--Management--Citizen participation., Conservation of natural resources--Botswana--Citizen participation., Conservation of natural resources--Economic aspects--Botswana., Poverty--Botswana., Theses--Environmental science.