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Trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in Namibia - a value chain exploration
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/129356 Trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in Namibia - a value chain exploration Symonds-Mayes, Luke Joshua Clements, Hayley Di Minin, Enrico Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Centre for Sustainability Transition. Big game hunting -- Namibia Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programme (Namibia) Biodiversity conservation -- Namibia Wildlife conservation -- Namibia Ecosystem management -- Namibia UCTD Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2023. Symonds-Mayes, L.J. 2023. Trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in Namibia - a value chain explorationUnpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University ]online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/75f9bfa2-e1dd-4109-b987-4d6414a7a86b ENGLISH SUMMARY: According to the United Nations, populations in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to double by 2050. Conserving wild landscapes in light of such growth will be vital to sustaining healthy levels of biodiversity in this region. Rural communities play a significant role in stewarding these landscapes, particularly those not protected as national parks. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes can incentivise community conservation of these areas. CBNRM can empower rural communities to derive socio-economic benefits from local natural resources. In countries like Botswana and Namibia for example, communities have marketed their local resources, like wildlife, to the trophy hunting industry. Trophy hunting is a recreational ecosystem service provided by the natural environment, in which hunters pay to shoot an animal with certain phenotypic traits. The socio-economic benefits that communities derive from trophy hunting act as payments for ecosystem services (PES) that compensate these communities for the costs of conserving these resources. The performance of trophy hunting to compensate communities as a PES scheme remains unclear. More understanding is needed on the direct and indirect mechanisms by which communities derive socio-economic value from the trophy hunting industry and the extent of these mechanisms. Additionally, more assessments are needed on how economic leakage, the value not captured by the local community economy, occurs in the industry, and its extent. Finally, there has been little investigation into understanding community perspectives on increasing community value capture from trophy hunting. This thesis uses Namibia as a case study to pursue two aims. The first aim is to map the Namibian trophy hunting value chain using literature, industry economic data and industry stakeholder consultations to determine what is known about community value capture and economic leakage in the industry. Secondly, this thesis aims to understand rural community perspectives on the barriers and opportunities to increasing economic integration in the trophy hunting industry. Results find that Namibian communities need to build equity in the trophy hunting industry as most community value capture from the industry stems from rents and benefits rather than income from value adding services. Three key stakeholder groups facilitate community value capture from the industry, but to different extents. These stakeholders include the community institutions that represent the community members, the private hunting operators and the hunting clients. Results indicate that community institutions are the most effective at distributing value from the industry to communities. Hunting operators followed as the next most effective. Literature, financial data and interviews could not provide enough information on the extent to which hunting clients distribute value to rural communities, however, communities perceive it as insignificant. Community perspectives are that they want to build stronger communal integration, including with clients, by increasing communal equity in the trophy hunting industry. However, communities see marketing and business knowledge and capacity as well as labour skills as the main barriers hindering their integration into the trophy hunting industry. This thesis assessed what is known about the trophy hunting industry as a type of PES. Further research needs to examine the extent of the hunting client-community economic interaction as well as how effectively value is shared within rural communities to perform a complete assessment of trophy hunting’s effectiveness as a PES. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Volgens die Verenigde Nasies word verwag dat die bevolkings in Sub-Sahara Afrika teen 2050 sal verdubbel. Die bewaring van wilde landskappe in die lig van sulke groei sal noodsaaklik wees om gesonde vlakke van biodiversiteit in hierdie streek te handhaaf. Landelike gemeenskappe speel 'n beduidende rol in die bewaring van hierdie landskappe, veral die wat nie as nasionale parke beskerm word nie. Gemeenskapsgebaseerde natuurlike hulpbronbestuur (CBNRM) programme kan gemeenskaplike bewaring van hierdie gebiede insentiveer. CBNRM kan landelike gemeenskappe bemagtig om sosio-ekonomiese voordele uit plaaslike natuurlike hulpbronne te verkry. In lande soos Botswana en Namibie het gemeenskappe byvoorbeeld hul plaaslike hulpbronne, soos die wildlewe, aan die trofeejagbedryf bemark. Trofeejag is 'n rekreatiewe ekosisteemdiens wat deur die natuurlike omgewing verskaf word. Die sosio-ekonomiese voordele wat gemeenskappe uit trofeejag trek, tree op as betalings vir ekosisteemdiens (PES) wat hierdie gemeenskappe vergoed vir die koste van die bewaring van hierdie hulpbronne. Die prestasie van trofeejag as 'n PES-stelsel om gemeenskappe te vergoed, bly onduidelik. Min is bekend oor hoe en tot watter mate gemeenskappe sosio-ekonomiese waarde uit trofeejag trek. Min is bekend oor hoe ekonomiese lekkasie, die waarde wat nie deur die plaaslike gemeenskaps-ekonomie vasgevang word nie, in die bedryf plaasvind en die omvang daarvan. Laastens is daar min ondersoek na gemeenskapsperspektiewe oor die verhoging van gemeenskaplike waarde-vaslegging uit trofeejag. Hierdie tesis gebruik Namibië as 'n gevallestudie om twee doelwitte na te volg. Die eerste doelwit is om die Namibiese trofeejagwaardeketting in kaart te bring deur gebruik te maak van literatuur, bedryfs-ekonomiese data en bedryfsbelanghebbende raadplegings om vas te stel wat bekend is oor gemeenskaplike waarde-vaslegging en ekonomiese lekkasie in die bedryf. Tweedens is die doelwit van hierdie tesis om met landelike gemeenskappe in Namibie in gesprek te tree om hul perspektiewe oor die struikelblokke en geleenthede vir die verhoging van ekonomiese integrasie in die trofeejagbedryf te verstaan. Resultate dui daarop dat Namibiese gemeenskappe 'n gebrek aan gelykheid in die trofeejagbedryf het, waar die meeste van die gemeenskaplike waarde wat uit die bedryf verkry word, voortspruit uit voordele eerder as inkomste. Drie sleutel-belanghebbendes fasiliteer die gemeenskaplike waarde-vaslegging uit die bedryf. Hierdie belanghebbendes sluit in die gemeenskapsinstellings wat die gemeenskapslede verteenwoordig, die private jagoperateurs en die jagkliënte. Resultate dui aan dat gemeenskapsinstellings die doeltreffendste is om waarde uit die bedryf na gemeenskappe te versprei. Jagoperateurs volg as die volgende doeltreffendste. Tans is daar nie genoeg bekend oor die omvang waartoe jagkliënte waarde na landelike gemeenskappe versprei nie, maar gemeenskappe beskou dit as onbeduidend. Volgens gemeenskapsperspektiewe bied die verhoging van gemeenskaplike gelykheid in die trofeejagbedryf 'n geleentheid vir sterker gemeenskaplike integrasie, insluitend met jagkliente. Gemeenskappe sien egter bemarking en besigheidskennis en -vermoe, sowel as arbeidsvaardighede, as die belangrikste struikelblokke wat hul integrasie in die trofeejagbedryf belemmer. Hierdie tesis het geassesseer wat bekend is oor die trofeejagbedryf as 'n tipe PES. Verdere navorsing moet die omvang van die interaksie tussen jagkliente en gemeenskaps-ekonomie ondersoek, sowel as hoe doeltreffend waarde binne landelike gemeenskappe gedeel word, om 'n volledige assessering van trofeejag se doeltreffendheid as 'n PES uit te voer. Masters 2023-11-24T08:46:15Z 2024-02-20T08:43:15Z 2023-11-24T08:46:15Z 2024-02-20T08:43:15Z 2023-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/129356 en_ZA Stellenbosch University xi, 75 pages : illustrations, maps, includes annexures application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Big game hunting -- Namibia Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programme (Namibia) Biodiversity conservation -- Namibia Wildlife conservation -- Namibia Ecosystem management -- Namibia UCTD Symonds-Mayes, Luke Joshua Trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in Namibia - a value chain exploration |
| title | Trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in Namibia - a value chain exploration |
| title_full | Trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in Namibia - a value chain exploration |
| title_fullStr | Trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in Namibia - a value chain exploration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in Namibia - a value chain exploration |
| title_short | Trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in Namibia - a value chain exploration |
| title_sort | trophy hunting as payments for ecosystem services in namibia a value chain exploration |
| topic | Big game hunting -- Namibia Community-Based Natural Resource Management Programme (Namibia) Biodiversity conservation -- Namibia Wildlife conservation -- Namibia Ecosystem management -- Namibia UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/129356 |
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