Social perception and determinants of Ngitili system adoption for forage and land conservation in Maswa district, Tanzania

Safari, J.; Singu, Isack; Masanyiwa, Zacharia S.; Hyandye, Canute

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109498

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“…Therefore, it is imperative to ensure the knowhow, integrity and resources of the ngitili management actors in these central positions: the district and ward officials as well as the village council, who are closer to the community. The availability of extension officers for example has been shown to be important for the adoption and preservation of private ngitilis in a study among farming households in the region [42]. Our study together with other studies in community-based resource management have also observed that influential individuals and leadership not only actors in influential network positions have an effect on management outcomes given that they possess vision and understanding of the importance of environmental protection [81][82][83][84].…”

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“…Through the years, the management system has been interacting with external landscape restoration interventions and continues to be challenged by growing demand for land and natural resources as well as changing climate. Recent research on the ngitili management system has focused on its effects on landscape restoration such as on biodiversity and vegetation cover [41], as well as the motivations of and incentives for individual farmers and communities to adopt, restore and sustainably manage ngitilis [42,43]. There has been less research on the institutional actors and their functioning behind communal ngitili management.…”

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Coalitions for Landscape Resilience: Institutional Dynamics behind Community-Based Rangeland Management System in North-Western Tanzania

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The past few decades have seen a continuing shift of natural resource management paradigm towards multifunctional and multi-actor adaptive management in hope of achieving more resilient landscapes. Recognizing the multitude of institutional actors and their roles as well as dynamics helps to understand communal behaviour, its manifestations in the landscape and resilience under changing socioecological circumstances. We examined institutional actors and their functions and relationships in a long-standing community-based natural resource management system, the ngitili, in north-western part of Tanzania. The aim of the research was to deepen understanding on the role of institutional arrangements and their limitations in supporting resilience of community-based management system. Data was collected through group discussions and interviews in three case study villages and district level, and institutional arrangements were analysed using 4Rs framework and social network analysis. The study shows that the management arrangements have evolved with time and are based on locally negotiated roles and collaboration among bureaucratic and socially embedded village level actors. These local level actors are resource poor, which hinders collaboration and implementation of ngitili management functions. External interventions have temporarily increased management efficiency in the villages but they did not create sustained multi-scale collaboration networks to address external threats to the ngitili resources. The results show that diversified funding sources, technical support and benefit sharing mechanisms are required to incentivize sustainable resource management. For the management system to be more resilient, the existing institutional actors and their ability to adapt should be nurtured by awareness raising, wider stakeholder participation and bridging organizations.

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Coalitions for Landscape Resilience: Institutional Dynamics behind Community-Based Rangeland Management System in North-Western Tanzania

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“…Ngitiri is a silvo-pastoral system practiced in Northwestern Tanzania [60]; it involves retaining an area of standing vegetation from the onset to the end of the rainy season. The practice is mainly governed through traditional by-laws set by local communities that are involved in the practice.…”

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“…PAs' management policies and legal frameworks are therefore likely to benefit much from inclusion of traditional by-laws in existing and new regulatory instruments. When such regulatory instruments are formed, they are likely to be received positively by local people as most of them feel possessiveness of the instrument [60]. Normally, decision-making in PAs management affects both social and ecological interests, therefore requires governance system that calls for stakeholders' collaboration to provide a consensus among them [63].…”

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Realizing UN decade on ecosystem restoration through a nature-based approach: A case review of management of biological invasions in protected areas

Ngondya

2022

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As the influx of different invasive species and their spread to new areas increases, there is a need for a rigorous and relevant scientific evidence-based control and restoration (EBCR) approaches to inform practical decisions and policymaking. While evidence-based decision is gaining popularity in science and policy, its potential for transformative change especially in the management of invasive plant species remains unexplored. Control and restoration of areas invaded by invasive plant species in natural and protected ecosystems require such decisions. Here, we provide a framework to guide how EBCR can contribute to transformative change and we argue that upscaling existing EBCR practices in areas invaded by invasive plant species (especially in protected areas (PAs)) requires coalitions of interdisciplinary science, public, private, and civil society actors with a common goal. Since actors’ roles and stakeholder interactions are dynamic, to achieve durable impacts, the upscaling process must continually engage and involve actors, while maintaining a balance of incentives among them. Social and cultural dimensions of local communities as well as their indigenous and local knowledge need to be incorporated. Pathways to upscaling EBCR may involve leveraging adaptive governance, integrating successful initiatives and lessons into public policy and practices, or reinforcing governance and management-led change with private efforts. We identify general lessons from (complex) PAs for successful upscaling of EBCR and illustrate the components of our framework through a novel application of a nature-based approach (NbA) in PAs invaded by invasive plant species.

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“…Social factors identified by studies as mediating outcomes included education and inclusion of knowledge, values, and community members. Here, education refers to either external factors where prior level of education mediated the outcome (e.g., Safari et al, 2019), or internal factors, where education was part of the intervention itself (e.g., Koutika, 2019). Some studies recognised the importance of including local knowledge in intervention design for vulnerability reduction (Woldie & Tadesse, 2019).…”

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Contributions of Nature-Based Solutions to Reducing Peoples’ Vulnerabilities to Climate Change across the Rural Global South

Woroniecki¹,

Spiegelenberg²,

Chausson³

et al. 2022

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Nature-based solutions (NbS) - working with and enhancing nature to address societal challenges - are increasingly being featured in climate change adaptation policy and plans. While there is growing evidence that NbS can reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts in general, there is a lack of understanding on the mechanisms through which this can be achieved, particularly in the Global South. To address this, we analyse 85 nature-based interventions in rural areas across the Global South, and factors mediating their effectiveness, based on a systematic map of peer-reviewed studies encompassing a wide diversity of ecosystems, climate impacts, and intervention types. We develop and apply an analytical framework of people’s social-ecological vulnerability to climate change, in terms of six pathways of vulnerability reduction: social and ecological exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Most cases (95%) report a reduction in vulnerability, primarily by lowering ecosystem sensitivity to climate impacts (73% of interventions), followed by reducing social sensitivity (52%), reducing ecological exposure (36%), increasing social adaptive capacity (31%), increasing ecological adaptive capacity (19%) and/or reducing social exposure (14%). An analysis of mediating factors shows that social dimensions are equally important as technical factors in NbS to achieving equitable and effective outcomes. Attention to the distinct social and ecological pathways through which vulnerability is reduced helps to harness the multiple benefits of working with nature in a warming world.

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Social perception and determinants of Ngitili system adoption for forage and land conservation in Maswa district, Tanzania

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

Coalitions for Landscape Resilience: Institutional Dynamics behind Community-Based Rangeland Management System in North-Western Tanzania

Coalitions for Landscape Resilience: Institutional Dynamics behind Community-Based Rangeland Management System in North-Western Tanzania

Realizing UN decade on ecosystem restoration through a nature-based approach: A case review of management of biological invasions in protected areas

Contributions of Nature-Based Solutions to Reducing Peoples’ Vulnerabilities to Climate Change across the Rural Global South

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