A quasi-experimental study of impacts of Tanzania's wildlife management areas on rural livelihoods and wealth.

ABSTRACT: Since the 2000s, Tanzania's natural resource management policy has emphasised Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), designed to promote wildlife and biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation and rural development. We carried out a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of social impacts of WMAs, collecting data from 24 villages participating in 6 different WMAs across two geographical regions, and 18 statistically matched control villages. Across these 42 villages, we collected participatory wealth ranking data for 13,578 households. Using this as our sampling frame, we conducted questionnaire surveys with a stratified sample of 1,924 household heads and 945 household heads' wives. All data were collected in 2014/15, with a subset of questions devoted to respondents' recall on conditions th

SUBMITTER: Bluwstein J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6029570 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature