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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Why keep lions instead of livestock? Assessing wildlife tourism-based payment for ecosystem services involving herders in the Maasai Mara, Kenya
Natural Resources Forum, Volume 37, No. 4, Year 2013
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This paper examines the effects of wildlife tourism-based payments for ecosystem services (PES) on poverty, wealth inequality and the livelihoods of herders in the Maasai Mara Ecosystem in south-western Kenya. It uses the case of Olare Orok Conservancy PES programme in which pastoral landowners have agreed to voluntary resettlement and exclusion of livestock grazing from their sub-divided lands. These lands are set aside for wildlife tourism, in return for direct monetary payments by a coalition of five commercial tourism operators. Results show that, on the positive side, PES is the most equitable income source that promotes income diversification and buffers households from the livestock income declines during periods of severe drought, such as in 2008-2009. Without accounting for the opportunity costs, the magnitude of the PES cash transfer to households is, on average, sufficient to close the poverty gap. The co-benefits of PES implementation include the creation of employment opportunities in the conservancy and provision of social services. There is however a need to mitigate the negative effects of PES, including the widening inequality in income between PES and non-PES households and the leakages resulting from the displacement of settlements and livestock to currently un-subdivided pastoral commons. © 2013 United Nations.
Authors & Co-Authors
Osano, Philip
Canada, Montreal
Université Mcgill
Saïd, Mohammed Yahya
Kenya, Nairobi
International Livestock Research Institute Nairobi
De Leeuw, Jan W.
Kenya, Nairobi
International Livestock Research Institute Nairobi
Ndiwa, Nicholas N.
Kenya, Nairobi
International Livestock Research Institute Nairobi
Kaelo, Dickson Ole
Kenya, Nairobi
Basecamp Foundation
Schomers, Sarah
Germany, Berlin
Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research
Birner, Regina
Germany, Stuttgart
Universität Hohenheim
Ogutu, Joseph Ochieng
Germany, Stuttgart
Universität Hohenheim
Statistics
Citations: 72
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/1477-8947.12027
ISSN:
01650203
e-ISSN:
14778947
Study Locations
Kenya