What is it about?
It is about the contestations between farmers (who witness elephant crop raiding) and extension personnel in relation to the institutional arrangements of extension information delivery system in the prevention of crop raiding in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
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Why is it important?
The paper is important because of its policy-oriented recommendations on how to resolve the lack of trust existing between government officials and farmers, and how to mitigate elephant crop raiding problems in the study area and other similar socio-ecological milieu.
Perspectives
The paper is quite unique because it is the first to unearth the power relations between smallholder farmers and extension personnel in the area.
Prof Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole
University of Botswana
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This page is a summary of: ‘Wildlife officials only care about animals’: Farmers' perceptions of a Ministry-based extension delivery system in mitigating human-wildlife conflicts in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Journal of Rural Studies, July 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.06.003.
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