This presentation by IIED associate Francesca Booker summarises a systematic review on alternative livelihoods projects and whether they are effective for conservation.
The presentation was made at a session on 'Welfare impacts of changes in natural resource management' at the Forests & Livelihoods: Assessment, Research, and Engagement (FLARE) conference in Paris, France on 28 November, 2015.
More details: http://www.iied.org/judging-effectiveness-alternative-livelihoods-projects
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re alternative livelihood projects effective at delivering conservation results?
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Are alternative livelihood
projects effective at
delivering conservation
results?
Francesca Booker @BookerFrancesca
IIED Associate
International Institute for Environment and Development
francesca.booker@iied.org
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What do we know?
Concern that the approach is not working…
• IMM (2008)
- support has focused on supply driven, single
blue print solutions
• FFI (2013) ‘Why NOT alternative livelihoods’
- failure to recognise the complexities of livelihoods
• Wright et al (2015) ‘Reframing the concept of
alternative livelihoods’
- outdated assumptions underpin the approach
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Why now?
IUCN WCC 2012, Resolution 111 passed
calling for:
‘a critical review of the biodiversity benefits of
alternative livelihood projects’
Our response (CIFOR, IIED & ZSL):
• Systematic map - provides an overview of the
existing evidence
• Systematic review - analyses and syntheses the
existing evidence
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What did we do?
Extensive literature search & stakeholder
engagement
Searches were conducted in English & French
Captured 22,146 documents
Inclusion criteria used to screen titles, abstracts and full
texts
For more detail see our Protocol available at:
http://www.environmentalevidencejournal.org/
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Systematic map – a description
of the evidence
106 projects included in the systematic map
• 69 % provided an alternative occupation
• 58 % where at least one intervention was dependent
on conservation success
• 28 % identified a specific target group
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Further references
Roe, Booker, Day et al (2015) Are alternative livelihoods
projects effective at reducing local threats to specified
elements of biodiversity and/or improving or maintaining the
conservation status of those elements. Environmental
Evidence, 4:22
Wright et al (2015) Reframing the concept of alternative
livelihoods. Conservation Biology, doi: 10.1111/cobi.12607