Titlebook: Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Africa; Katherine Homewood (Professor of Anthropology) Book 20051st edition Palgrave Macmillan, a

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Introductionity, widespread poverty and precarious food security (Downing, 1996; Rosenzweig and Parry, 1994). To many outside observers, African environments seem a central factor in people’s vulnerability, a major stumbling block to development. At the same time, African rangelands and forests are a magnet for

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Out of the Woodland, into the Firee ‘fiielwood crisis’ was one of the first received wisdoms on human-environment interactions to be challenged by a more multi-disciplinary approach to field research that combines historical, ecological and social-anthropological analysis (Leach and Meams, 1996). From the late 1980s, a number of aut

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Detail & Dogma, Data & Discourseproblem of existence in a manner intelligent to him. His cosmic views arc more or less as follows:‘&whatever exists in [the] celestial world & is the higher cause of their existence on earth. The rainy season in particular is a gift from above. And what the rain causes to grow in the shape of edible

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The Contingency of Community Conservationrism. The hope is that if parks and reserves can make valuable contributions to livelihoods then local people will advocate their protection. Surrounded by supportive neighbours, their future would then be secure. Similarly, outside protected areas, wildlife or landscapes would not necessarily need

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People are a Resource section which refers to the rapid population growth in that region and the problems that this causes (e.g. Snrech, 1995; IIED, 1999). Although population growth is sometimes portrayed as a neutral but major driver of change, more often it is perceived to be a serious and generalised problem for two

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Understanding Institutional Contexts to Define Research Questionsat between the deforestation/degradation dogma driving attempts at rainforest conservation and scientific forest management versus the ‘new’ development/environment discourse (Fairhead and Leach, 1998). Second, this chapter looks beyond the contestation of discourses or environmental narratives, whi

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