Assessing the effect of marine reserves on household food security in Kenyan coral reef fishing communities.

ABSTRACT: Measuring the success or failure of natural resource management is a key challenge to evaluate the impact of conservation for ecological, economic and social outcomes. Marine reserves are a popular tool for managing coastal ecosystems and resources yet surprisingly few studies have quantified the social-economic impacts of marine reserves on food security despite the critical importance of this outcome for fisheries management in developing countries. Here, I conducted semi-structured household surveys with 113 women heads-of-households to investigate the influence of two old, well-enforced, no-take marine reserves on food security in four coastal fishing communities in Kenya, East Africa. Multi-model information-theoretic inference and matching methods found that marine reserves did not i

SUBMITTER: Darling ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4244085 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature