Bushmeat and Livelihoods: Wildlife Management and Poverty Reduction [Paperback]

This book explores the links between bushmeat and livelihoods in Africa, with a focus on the human dimension of the debate.

• Assembles biological, social and economic perspectives that illuminate the bushmeat debate
• Features a series of case studies that explore what species survive different intensities of bushmeat hunting and trapping
• Examines the shape and size of household bushmeat consumption and market trading
• Reviews governance and institutional impacts on wildlife management; lessons learned from agriculture, forest plant product, and development sectors; and perspectives from Asia and Latin America
• Provides an excellent resource for students and policy makers in wildlife management, conservation, and development

Preface.

Introduction (David Brown and Glyn Davies).

Part 1. Bushmeat: Markets and Households (Glyn Davies and John G. Robinson).

1. Hunting and trapping in Gola forests, south-eastern Sierra Leone: Bushmeat from farm, fallow and forest (Glyn Davies, Bj?rn Schulte-Herbr?ggen, No?lle F. K?mpel, and Samantha Mendelson).

2. Livelihoods and sustainability in a bushmeat commodity chain in Ghana (Guy Cowlishaw, Samantha Mendelson, and J. Marcus Rowcliffe).

3. Bushmeat markets  white elephants or red herrings? (John E. Fa).

4. Cameroon: from free gift to valued commodity. The bushmeat commodity chain around the Dja Reserve (Hilary Solly).

5. Determinants of bushmeat consumption and trade in continental Equatorial Guinea: an urban-rural comparison (No?lle F. K?mpel, Tamsyn East, Nick Keylock, J. MarcuslC¸