Glyn Davies & David Brown 
Bushmeat and Livelihoods 
Wildlife Management and Poverty Reduction

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

Table of Content

Contributors.

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,
Björn Schulte-Herbrüggen, Noëlle F. Kümpel, 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 (Noëlle F.
Kümpel, Tamsyn East, Nick Keylock, J. Marcus Rowcliffe, Guy
Cowlinshaw, and E.J. Milner-Gulland).

6. Livelihoods, hunting and the game meat trade in northern
Zambia (Taylor Brown and Stuart A. Marks).

Part 2: Institutional contexts (E.J.
Milner-Gulland).

7. Is the best the enemy of the good? Institutional and
livelihoods perspectives on bushmeat harvesting and trade –
some issues and challenges (David Brown).

8. Bushmeat, wildlife management, and good governance: rights
and institutional arrangements in Namibia’s community based
natural resources management programme (Christopher Vaughan and
Andrew Long).

9. Wildlife management in a logging concession in Northern
Congo: can livelihoods be maintained through sustainable hunting?
(John R. Poulsen, Connie J. Clark, and Germain A.
Mavah).

10. Institutional challenges to sustainable bushmeat management
in Central Africa (Andrew Hurst).

Part 3. Extra-Sectoral Influences and Models (Jo
Elliott).

11. Can wildlife and agriculture coexist outside protected areas
in Africa? A hopeful model and a case study in Zambia (Dale M.
Lewis).

12. Food for thought for the bushmeat trade: lessons from the
commercialisation of plant NTFPs (Elaine Marshall, Kathrin
Schreckenberg, Adrian Newton, Dirk Willem te Velde, Jonathan
Rushton, Fabrice Edouard, Catarina Illsley, and Eric
Arancibia).

13. Bushmeat, forestry and livelihoods: exploring the coverage
in PRSPs (Neil M. Bird and Chris S. Dickson).

14. The Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board
(BQCMB): blending knowledge, people and practice for barren-ground
caribou conservation in Northern Canada (Ross C.
Thompson).

Part 4: Regional perspectives (Glyn Davies and Ruth
Whitten).

15. Hunting, wildlife trade and wildlife consumption patterns in
Asia (Elizabeth L. Bennett).

References.

Index.

About the author

Glyn Davies is Director of Conservation Programmes at the
Zoological Society of London. A forest ecologist with over 25 years
research and management experience, that has included bushmeat
investigations in Sierra Leone and Liberia. He has published
academic papers and policy documents, and compiled management
plans.

David Brown is a Research Fellow of the Overseas
Development Institute in London. A sociologist, he has over 30
years’ experience in the tropics, mainly in West-Central
Africa and has published extensively on development policy issues,
particularly in the forest sector.