Living in wildlife villages: the elephant in the backyard
When I joined the NEPSUS team in 2016 as a PhD candidate, I didn’t expect to come across wild animals in the villages. On the day of my...
The Seeds of a Good Anthropocene? Community-based conservation initiatives beyond commercialization
Anthropogenic activities have driven planet Earth into a new geological era – the ‘Anthropocene’. Our actions and practices have been...
Multi-stakeholder forest governance and the challenges of sustainability
A central controversy is hampering plans for sustainable natural resource management in many Tanzanian villages: who owns and controls...
Elephants and Sesame
There is an old adage among Marxists that the one thing worse than being exploited by capital is not being exploited by it at all....
The Tragedy of Water at Ngarambi
Since the inscription of the Selous Game Reserve into the UNESCO register of World Heritage in Danger in 2014 and increased anti-poaching...
ANALYTICAL CODING USING NVIVO: Qualitative Data Coding by a Team of Interdisciplinary Researchers
New Partnerships for Sustainability (NEPSUS) is a Tanzanian-Danish research project that involves fifteen researchers with different...
Incomplete local community participation in the management of coastal resources: The Mtwara case
Speaking of local community participation in the management of coastal resources in rural Mtwara, one can't avoid to emphasize the role...
A Double-Edged Sword for Development: A Narrative of Wildlife Crop Damage
Wildlife, as profitable for Tanzania as it is, can be a double-edged sword for developmental progress: Crop destruction poses a serious thre
Challenges in the Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park, Tanzania: Past and present
In March 2018 I visited Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park (MBREMP) in Mtwara as part of a field research trip with the coastal working...
How to survive on 'leftovers of nighttime spinach': Local narratives of human-wildlife inter
‘We grow crops for elephants and eat what they leave after their feasts’, Juma, resident of Tapika village in Rufiji district Recently, I...
