Promoting Governability in Small-Scale Fisheries in Zanzibar, Tanzania: From Self-Governance to Co-governance

Lindström, Lars; Torre‐Castro, Maricela de la

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“…It is also surprising in the specific context of this study. Social conflicts about natural resource use and politics have been pronounced between the two study villages in the past and have occasionally even led to violent escalations [39,43,58]. Interestingly, yet, the finding is consistent with results from Uruguay, where small-scale fishers did not extract more in mixed-village groups than in single-village groups in a CPR experiment that focussed on punishment [47].…”

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confidence: 70%

“…Note that our results have implications for the debate on external validity of social dilemma experiments for predicting sustainable behaviour in the real world (see [67–72]). We found more cooperation in a CPR game in the community for which less sustainable fishing practices are reported [34,35,37,39]. If this is, as in our interpretation, due to economic (rather than environmental) institutions of cooperation, these contextual factors could be a confound when researchers try to measure sustainable behaviour with social dilemma experiments across populations, as has been common in the past.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…The majority of men participate in the multi-gear, multi-species fishery, while many women farm seaweed or collect invertebrates [31]. Poverty remains severe and widespread, and there are indications of over-exploitation of fisheries resources [32–35] while formal resource management institutions are weak [36,37]. The vast majority of the Bay population is Swahili and Muslim with common descent from the Hadimu tribe [38].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite the geographical proximity of the villages (appr. 4 km) and shared ethnicity and religion, ongoing conflicts have cemented distrust and distinct social and political identities as well as between-village variation in world views, attitudes and cultural-cognitive institutions about how fisheries resources should be used [37,39,40]. This makes the two villages an ideal study site for the effects of sociocultural heterogeneity on cooperativeness in CPR dilemmas.…”

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“…Since CH and MA differ in their scope of cooperative economic institutions, these study sites also qualify for an investigation of whether such differences are associated with levels cooperation in a heterogeneous CPR dilemma. This is also relevant for local policy, because, currently, researchers are pessimistic about between-village cooperation for Bay-level fisheries governance [37].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sociocultural heterogeneity in a common pool resource dilemma

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Collective action of resource users is essential for sustainability. Yet, often user groups are socioculturally heterogeneous, which requires cooperation to be established across salient group boundaries. We explore the effect of this type of heterogeneity on resource extraction in lab-in-the-field Common Pool Resource (CPR) experiments in Zanzibar, Tanzania. We create heterogeneous groups by mixing fishers from two neighbouring fishing villages which have distinct social identities, a history of conflict and diverging resource use practices and institutions. Additionally, we analyse between-village differences in extraction behaviour in the heterogeneous setting to assess if out-group cooperation in a CPR dilemma is associated with a community’s institutional scope in the economic realm (e.g., degree of market integration). We find no aggregate effect of heterogeneity on extraction. However, this is because fishers from the two villages behave differently in the heterogeneity treatment. We find support for the hypothesis that cooperation under sociocultural heterogeneity is higher for fishers from the village with larger institutional scope. In line with this explanation, cooperation under heterogeneity also correlates with a survey measure of individual fishers’ radius of trust. We discuss implications for resource governance and collective action research.

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Tuna or Tasi? Fishing for Policy Coherence in Zanzibar’s Small-Scale Fisheries Sector

Lindström

Torre‐Castro

2017

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Transforming the governance of small-scale fisheries

Chuenpagdee

Jentoft

2018

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Coastal tourism has been supported by the growth of middle-class tourist markets, promoted by governments who view it as an important avenue for economic growth and backed by environmental organisations who regard it as an alternative, more environmentally sustainable livelihood than capture fisheries. How policymakers and households in coastal areas negotiate the challenges and opportunities associated with growing tourism and declining capture fisheries is increasingly important. Drawing on extended ethnographic fieldwork from the Philippines between 2006 and 2018, this paper examines the transition from fishing to tourism and the consequences for one coastal community. I focus on land tenure as a key variable that shapes the effects and opportunities associated with livelihood transitions from fishing to tourism. While tourism has not been inherently positive or negative, the ability of local households to negotiate the boom and obtain the full benefits out of it is questionable. Many fishers have switched their primary livelihood activity to tourism, including the construction of tourist boats, working as tour guides or providing accommodation. However, the growth of tourism has prompted several attempts to evict the community, including from local elites who aimed to develop resorts on the coast and a recent push by the national administration to 'clean up' tourist sites around the country. I argue that land tenure in coastal communities should be more of a focus for researchers working in small-scale fisheries, as well as for researchers working on land rights.

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Promoting Governability in Small-Scale Fisheries in Zanzibar, Tanzania: From Self-Governance to Co-governance

Cited by 4 publications

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Sociocultural heterogeneity in a common pool resource dilemma

Sociocultural heterogeneity in a common pool resource dilemma

Tuna or Tasi? Fishing for Policy Coherence in Zanzibar’s Small-Scale Fisheries Sector

Transforming the governance of small-scale fisheries

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