Invertebrate gleaning within seagrass meadows is a common activity across eastern African communities that depend on fisheries for their livelihoods. Based on a case study of two contrasting sites, Maputo Bay (MB) and Inhambane Bay (IB),this study documents, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the gleaning activity, its value chain and stakeholders,payingparticular attention to the recently created Locally Managed Marine Areas (LMMAs) within IB, boasting creativity in seagrass invertebrate fishery management.Twenty-four common edible species were identified for MB, and 15 for IB; nearly all gleaners were women and children. Our estimates indicate that about 7.7 and 7.6 tons of invertebrates are collected in the peak catch weeks (spring low tides) in MB and IB, respectively. Resources are caught and sold at local markets, food fairs (for IB only), and restaurants,as well as for direct household consumption. One thousand one hundred and seventy two(1172) hectares of LMMAs (corresponding to nearly 0.05 of IB) of fisheries management, together with existing community and other stakeholder engagement and intervention on value chains, are at the center of tangible invertebrate fishery management.
Mama Blandina Giblin, asanti Sana! To Eugénio and Irene, my parents and aunt Filomena thanks for sowing the seed of my studies. To Aunt Florentina Mubai and uncle Adriano Makhule may your souls rest in peace; your effort was not in vain.
Mozambican law recommends community councils to promote the comanagement of natural resources in protected areas. In the Limpopo National Park, the park committee has served as the community council for the last two decades. Based on fieldwork conducted in 2009-2019, this practical note identifies challenges that the committee faces and suggests two pathways to tackle the challenges: the committee members should be selected based on individual capacity; and financial resources must be directed towards developing their capacity. Further research on how to establish these pathways are imperative to enable the committee members to focus on activities for the co-management.
Chronic shortages of resources to run the state have been a feature of Mozambique since the colonial period. Even before the adoption of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) in the late 1980s, conditions were austere due to the effects of Portuguese colonialism, a decade of liberation struggle, prolonged civil war and policy mistakes following independence in 1975. Drawing from archival research and oral accounts, this article analyses the impact of the liberalization of higher education in Mozambique. It explores the strategies adopted by intellectuals and academics to navigate reduced state support and donor conditionalities accompanying austerity measures from the late 1980s. It also highlights the paradoxical effects of austerity measures on fundraising, intellectual production, and the expansion of educational institutions. Austerity measures brought about by SAPs have forced universities and faculty to reinvent themselves by commercializing and privatizing higher education and seeking external funding for research. At the same time, scholars are now intellectually freer but more dependent on donors’ research agendas. Finally, the introduction of privately owned higher education institutions and the marketization of public institutions have increased divisions between the elites and the majority of Mozambicans who cannot afford to pay the fees charged.
Este artigo, analisa os efeitos da feminização do sistema de Crédito e Poupança Rotativo (PCR) na identificação de estratégias de sobrevivência das comunidades do Parque Nacional de Limpopo. O insumo, argumenta que o PCR constitui alternativa à limitação dos meios de sobrevivência das comunidades. No entanto, dada génese destes grupos, foco na mulher, conduz à exclusão do homem, numa época em que as abordagens sobre o género centram-se na igualdade de oportunidade. Com base nas entrevistas semiestruturadas e grupos focais, a pesquisa revela que o PCR é percebido pelos homens como sendo unicamente para mulheres. Este cenário, associado aos estereótipos de género, faz com que o homem sofra uma dupla exclusão, a originada por factores externos e a autoexclusão, limitando a possibilidade deste recorrer ao PCR para colmatar a limitação do acesso aos recursos resultante da transformação da sua zona de residência em Parque.
Palavras-chave: Crédito, Poupança, Exclusão Social; Parque, Género
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