Falk, T and Lohmann, D and Azebaze, N (2016) Congruence of appropriation and provision in collective water provision in Central Namibia. International Journal of the Commons, 10 (1). pp. 71-118. ISSN 1875-0281
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Abstract
Achieving cooperation in natural resource management is always a challenge when incentives exist for an individual to maximise her short term benefits at the cost of a group. We study a public good social dilemma in water infrastructure provision on land reform farms in Namibia. In the context of the Namibian land reform, arbitrarily mixed groups of livestock farmers have to share the operation and maintenance of water infrastructure. Typically, water is mainly used for livestock production, and livestock numbers are subject to high fluctuations due to the given environmental conditions. Our paper assesses how alternative payment systems with differing congruence of provision and appropriation support the cooperation in the group given the ever-changing equilibria. In a first step, we conducted an exploratory overview of the social-ecological system of central Namibian land reform projects. The Social Ecological System (SES) Framework served as a guideline for this assessment (Ostrom 2009). Taking the complexity of the cooperation situation into account, in the second step we designed a role-play that is based on a social-ecological simulation model. The role-play simulates the real-life decision situations of land reform beneficiaries wherein equilibria are permanently changing. This approach helped us to not only better understand the cooperation challenges of Namibian land reform beneficiaries, but also supported stakeholders in their decision making and institution building. Our study provides evidence to support that land reform beneficiaries increase their contributions as they own more livestock and as other group members increase their payments. Nevertheless, only groups with relatively homogeneous livestock endowments manage to agree on payment rules. Interestingly, the dominant rule is an “equal payment per farmer” and not a “payment per head of livestock”, though the latter would imply a higher congruence of provision and appropriation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Research Program : Innovation Systems for the Drylands (ISD) |
| CRP: | CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Land reform,Namibia,Participatory ecological-economic modelling,Public good,Role play,Savanna rangeland |
| Subjects: | Others |
| Depositing User: | Mr Ramesh K |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2017 11:35 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2017 04:13 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9834 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/ijc.583 |
| Projects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Acknowledgement: | This study was part of the BIOTA project (01LC0024I) which was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. We thank Michael Kirk, the coordinator of the BIOTA governance subproject, for his dedicated support. Special acknowledgement goes to all surveyed communities for their time, assistance and hospitality. The study was conducted in cooperation with Bertus Kruger coordinating the Emerging Commercial Farmer Support Programme and Richard Kamukuenjandje lecturing at the Polytechnic of Namibia. We thank all student assistants who contributed to the study, in particular Reinhold Kambuli, Pombili Sheehama, Linnéa Koop, Nora Heil, Lisa Lebershausen, Daniela Neu, Anne Frank, Muhammad Aneeque Javaid, and Michael Perdue. |
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