Community-based rangeland management in Namibia improves resource governance but not environmental and economic outcomes
dc.contributor.author | Coppock, DL | |
dc.contributor.author | Crowley, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Durham, SL | |
dc.contributor.author | Groves, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Jamison, JC | |
dc.contributor.author | Karlan, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Norton, BE | |
dc.contributor.author | Ramsey, RD | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-26T14:30:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-02-17 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-01-26T13:11:58Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Classic theories suggest that common pool resources are subject to overexploitation. Community-based resource management approaches may ameliorate tragedy of the commons effects. Here we use a randomized evaluation in Namibia’s communal rangelands to study a comprehensive four-year program to support community-based rangeland and cattle management. We find that the program led to persistent and large improvements for eight of thirteen indices of social and behavioral outcomes. Effects on rangeland health, cattle productivity and household economics, however, were either negative or nil. Positive impacts on community resource management may have been offset by communities’ inability to control grazing by non-participating herds and inhibited by an unresponsive rangeland sub-system. This juxtaposition, in which measurable improvements in community resource management did not translate into better outcomes for households or rangeland health, demonstrates the fragility of the causal pathway from program implementation to intended socioeconomic and environmental outcomes. It also points to challenges for improving climate change–adaptation strategies. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Millennium Challenge Corporation | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 3, article 32 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s43247-022-00361-5 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/128577 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-2671-1153 (Jamison, Julian) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/2723 | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/138/study-description | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/138/study-description | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | |
dc.title | Community-based rangeland management in Namibia improves resource governance but not environmental and economic outcomes | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-26T14:30:35Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: Hypotheses and analytical methods for this research were pre-registered prior to analysis through the American Economic Association’s RCT registry and are available online (https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/2723). Data used for this research are accessible at the Millennium Challenge Corporation website (https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/138/study-description) and will also be linked to on the Innovations for Poverty Action dataverse. In the publicly available data, some numerical outliers have been censored in order to preserve the anonymity of the survey respondents. This censoring does not affect the direction and statistical significance of our results. Access to uncensored data is available upon request from the Millennium Challenge Corporation or the corresponding author, subject to approval by the Millennium Challenge Corporation. | en_GB |
dc.description | Code availability: Data analysis was conducted in R and Stata. All code needed to replicate the figures and tables in this paper and the Supplementary Information is available, with accompanying datasets, through the Millennium Challenge Corporation at (https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/138/study-description) and will also be linked to on the Innovations for Poverty Action dataverse. | |
dc.identifier.journal | Communications Earth & Environment | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-01-26 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-01-26 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-01-26T13:12:00Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-03-03T11:53:23Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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