Grazing and Cattle as Challenges in Community Based Natural Resources Management in Bulilimamangwe District of Zimbabwe

Madzudzo, Elias; Hawkes, R.

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Title:	Grazing and Cattle as Challenges in Community Based Natural Resources Management in Bulilimamangwe District of Zimbabwe
Authors:	Madzudzo, Elias Hawkes, R.
Year:	1996
Periodical:	Zambezia
Volume:	23
Issue:	1
Pages:	1-18
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs., maps
Geographic terms:	Zimbabwe Southern Africa
Subjects:	wildlife protection grasslands Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Environment, Ecology Grazing natural resources Resources management Bulilimamangwe District (Zimbabwe)
External link:	https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_194
Abstract:	The Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (Campfire) is a community-based natural resources management programme, designed to devolve natural resource management, especially wildlife, to local communities. The programme in Bulilimamangwe District, western Zimbabwe, seeks to enhance the community's wildlife base by partitioning a wildlife buffer in the grazing area. Benefits from managing the wildlife, mainly through hunting and photographic safaris, will accrue to the Campfire communities. Such community-based programmes presuppose the existence of a community which can manage, or is managing, natural resources. In the present article, the authors examine the problems of introducing community-based management of wildlife in Bulilimamangwe District by looking at issues regarding cattle ownership and grazing practice. They conclude that one of the challenges to Campfire is the fact that the structure of the Bulilimamangwe community is a composite of different economic subgroups with competing interests. The article is based on information collected between 1991 and 1993, through a sample survey of 969 households, unstructured interviews, observation and inspection of documents. Notes, ref., sum.