Bollmann, Manuel (2024). One Livelihood Risk Factor Too Many? How Unintended Impacts of Conservation Contribute to Food Insecurity in Kavango Zambezi, Southern Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies. pp. 1-23. online: Taylor & Francis.

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Abstract

Kavango Zambezi (KAZA) is the world’s largest terrestrial Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA), covering vast regions of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Elephants and other species traverse KAZA across national borders through both protected and inhabited landscapes along wildlife migration corridors. Zimbabwe’s Simangani ward is located within such a corridor. As in most rural areas of KAZA, subsistence farming constitutes the predominant livelihood strategy in Simangani. Research across KAZA has mostly focused either on climate- or wildlife-induced impacts on farming communities. This paper combines findings from in-depth, qualitative fieldwork with quantitative livelihood survey data and provides a detailed assessment from a farming-household perspective of on-farm and off-farm income sources, which are mobilised in order to mitigate grain harvest shortfalls resulting from climatic fluctuations and wildlife depredation. This study concludes that drought and other stressors have a considerably higher impact on food insecurity than unintended conservation impacts. However, it also confirms that the impacts of crop raiding and livestock depredation caused by wildlife do indeed trigger additional food security risk factors for farming households whose livelihoods are already under pressure.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Bollmann, Manuelm.bollmann@uni-koeln.deUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-740433
DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2024.2403942
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Southern African Studies
Page Range: pp. 1-23
Date: 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Place of Publication: online
Language: English
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 4: Außereuropäische Sprachen, Kulturen und Gesellschaften > Institut für Ethnologie
Subjects: Customs, etiquette, folklore
Geography and travel
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Funders: ERC Rewilding
Projects: Rewilding the Anthropocen
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/74043

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