Balancing Pastoralist Livelihoods and Wildlife Management

Objectif officiel

Growing human resource-use is intensifying pressures on most natural ecosystems. Better models are urgently needed to clarify complex interactions in systems where stewardship and sustainability are challenged by conflicting demands of multiple stakeholders with different resource-use profiles. Human-dominated landscape areas with abundant wildlife present particular challenges. First, large animals often inflict serious hazards to health and safety of humans and livestock. Second, mandated conservation policies prohibit converting land to agriculture. Resource management in these areas can be contentious when diverse stakeholders hold conflicting interests, or benefits and costs are unequally distributed. To maximize the inherently precarious potential of these systems, management must weigh social, economic and ecological factors. We have worked since 2010 with authorities and Maasai communities using participatory GIS in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Our established collaborations combined with ecological, genetic and social data will provide new approaches for securing pastoralist livelihoods and ecological sustainability. We will test feasibility of an incentive-based Performance Payment scheme that would counter costs of livestock depredation suffered by pastoralist communities, and establish an exchange program between Maasai pastoralists and reindeer herding Sámi communities in northern Sweden, where an incentive-based mitigation model was first implemented.

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Calendrier

Début déclaré

1er janvier 2015

Clôture

31 décembre 2017

Durée prévue

36 mois

Financement

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Place de l’énergie

100 % du projet relève des secteurs de l’énergie, selon la ventilation déclarée par le bailleur. L’énergie en est l’objet principal.

• Recherche dans le domaine de l’énergie 100 %

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