Traditional Management Systems, Poverty and Change in the Arid Zone Fisheries of Northern Nigeria

Neiland, A.; Madakan, Sunday; Béné, Christophe

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2004.00096.x

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“…Note, however, that, despite the systematic aspect of this taxation system, a very limited proportion of these taxes comes back to the central authority legitimately in charge of the management of the fisheries (i.e. the department of fisheries or equivalent) [13]. In Chad for instance, there is no village among these surveyed where the tax revenues benefit the Department of Fisheries (DPA) although in 100 per cent of IJSE 30,3 the villages people pay taxes for the rights to access or to use the water-bodies.…”

Section: Access Fees and Illegal Taxesmentioning

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Natural‐resource institutions and property rights in inland African fisheries

Béné

Neiland

Jolley

et al. 2003

International Journal of Social Economics

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.Abstract Although there exists a rich literature on fisheries traditional management systems in North and South America, Caribbean, Asia and Pacific islands, much less information is available on inland African fisheries. Presents the first regional-scale survey of traditional management systems operated within the Lake Chad Basin. The survey focused on the status and organization of the local (de facto) management systems and their interactions with the modern (de jure) regulations. The results show that fishing activities within the whole Basin are still largely under the control of the traditional local authorities. The few open-access fishing grounds are areas that traditional authorities have never controlled or water-bodies that they have had to "give up" in recent times due to the presence of armed groups. These areas are also areas where illegal taxation systems operated by non-legitimated governement agents have developed, essentially as a consequence of the remoteness and political instability of the whole Basin.

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Section: Access Fees and Illegal Taxesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Natural‐resource institutions and property rights in inland African fisheries

Béné

Neiland

Jolley

et al. 2003

International Journal of Social Economics

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“…Consequently, the socio-political and cultural origins of many local institutions are underplayed or overlooked. Other research has documented how many institutions emerge to maintain a particular socio-political status quo rather than to manage or conserve resources (Kremer 1994, Vedeld 2000, Neiland et al 2005. For instance, research shows how the opening and closure regimes of traditional taboos are http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss4/art28/ related primarily to cultural practices, such as death and feasting, or social needs, and are not typically informed by resource status or other environmental cues (Carrier 1987, Lieber 1994, Foale et al 2011, Cohen and Foale 2013.…”

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Social-ecological systems, social diversity, and power: insights from anthropology and political ecology

Fabinyi¹,

Evans²,

Foale³

2014

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ABSTRACT. A social-ecological system (SES) framework increasingly underpins the "resilience paradigm." As with all models, the SES comes with particular biases. We explore these key biases. We critically examine how the SES resilience literature has attempted to define and analyze the social arena. We argue that much SES literature defines people's interests and livelihoods as concerned primarily with the environment, and thereby underplays the role of other motivations and social institutions. We also highlight the SES resilience literature's focus on institutions and organized social units, which misses key aspects of social diversity and power. Our key premise is the importance of inter-and multi-disciplinary perspectives. To illustrate this, we draw attention to the critique of earlier ecological anthropology that remains relevant for current conceptualizations of SESs, focusing on the concepts of social diversity and power. And we discuss insights from social anthropology and political ecology that have responded to this critique to develop different ways of incorporating social diversity and power into human-environment relations. Finally, we discuss how these social science perspectives can help improve the understanding of the "social" in SES resilience research.Key Words: anthropology; political ecology; power; social diversity; social-ecological system INTRODUCTION Underpinning current use of the "resilience paradigm" is a focus on the social-ecological system (SES). The SES is a model with the attendant biases and particular strengths and weaknesses that come with all models (anthropological, ecological, economic, and political). In particular, social elements of the SES remain weakly theorized, highlighting the need for a Special Issue such as this. We focus on how much SES resilience literature tends to define people's interests and livelihoods as concerned primarily with the environment. This underplays the role of other motivations and social institutions, and portrays a limited understanding of the importance of social diversity and power. We discuss insights from the social sciences-in particular, social anthropology and political ecology-to critique the concept of SES, with a focus on the concepts of human adaptation to the environment, social diversity, and power. Emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary learning, we analyze how these social sciences have addressed similar conceptual issues within their own intellectual histories as a response to critiques of earlier forms of ecological anthropology. In our conclusion, we discuss to what extent this can contribute to a broader intellectual understanding of the "social" in SES resilience research.

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“…Greater certainty over the timing and magnitude of the floods may enable farmers to adjust to the resulting reduction in the risks normally associated with floodplain farming. Enhanced dry season flows provided by the releases from Challawa Gorge and Kafin Zaki dams in Scenario 5 would also benefit farmers along the Hadejia and Jama'are rivers while the floodplain's fisheries may also experience beneficial impacts from the greater extent of inundation remaining throughout the dry season (Neiland et al 2005). Thus, the introduction of a regulated flooding regime in conjunction with upstream water developments may be the only realistic hope of minimizing floodplain losses.…”

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Wetlands as natural assets

Barbier

2011

Hydrological Sciences Journal

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As the services of wetlands are uniquely related to hydrological processes, they result in a wide range of benefits to humankind. Although this facilitates the characterization of wetlands as natural assets, there are measurement problems. Because wetland services are nearly always non-marketed, they need to be explicitly valued to determine the trade-offs between development and conservation of wetlands. Two case studies, a floodplain in northern Nigeria and mangroves in southern Thailand, illustrate the issues involved. In the case of Nigeria, the natural capital is the river floodplain, and the trade-off is the upstream water diversion compared to the downstream flooding benefits to farming, fishery and forestry, as well as groundwater recharge. In the case of Thailand, the natural capital is the mangrove system, and the trade-off is the conversion to shrimp farms, as opposed to the mangrove benefits of locally harvested products, habitat-fishery linkages and storm protection.Key words economic valuation; ecosystem services; floodplain; mangrove; hydrological services; natural asset; Nigeria; Thailand; wetlands Les zones humides en tant que biens naturelsRésumé Bien que les services des zones humides soient particulièrement associés aux processus hydrologiques, ils produisent toute une gamme de bénéfices pour l'humanité. Si cela facilite la caractérisation des zones humides en tant que biens naturels, il y a cependant des problèmes de mesure. Parce que les services rendus par les zones humides ne sont presque jamais sur des marchés, ils doivent être évalués de façon explicite pour déterminer le compromis entre le développement et la conservation des zones humides. Deux études de cas, une zone inondable au nord du Nigéria et des mangroves au sud de la Thaïlande, illustrent les problèmes rencontrés. Dans le cas du Nigéria, le bien naturel est la zone inondable et le compromis est le détournement d'eau en amont comparé aux bénéfices, apportés par les inondations en aval, pour l'agriculture, la pisciculture et l'exploitation forestière, ainsi que la recharge des nappes. Dans le cas de la Thaïlande, le bien naturel est le système de mangroves et le compromis est la conversion à l'élevage de crevettes opposé aux bénéfices venant des mangroves : récoltes locales de produits, liens entre habitat et pisciculture et protection contres les tempêtes.

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Traditional Management Systems, Poverty and Change in the Arid Zone Fisheries of Northern Nigeria

Abstract: This paper, based on fieldwork results, explores traditional management systems (TMS) in the arid zone fisheries of north-eastern

Cited by 23 publications

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Natural‐resource institutions and property rights in inland African fisheries

Natural‐resource institutions and property rights in inland African fisheries

Social-ecological systems, social diversity, and power: insights from anthropology and political ecology

Wetlands as natural assets

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