Unique combinations of stakeholders in a transfrontier conservation area promote biodiversity-agriculture integration

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Chitakira, Munyaradzi
Torquebiau, Emmanuel
Ferguson, Jan Willem Helenus

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Taylor & Francis

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The world seeks to balance biodiversity protection and food production. Transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) provide unique opportunities for strategies that combine agriculture with biodiversity conservation at a landscape level, known as ecoagriculture. We identified and consulted ecoagriculture stakeholders in a smallholder farming community within a TFCA. Data were obtained through key informant interviews and questionnaire surveys. Eighty-eight percent of key informants indicated that planned ecoagriculture was feasible in the area and 95% of interviewed farmers positively considered to plan the integration of biodiversity conservation and farming. Potential conflicts of interest were revealed among stakeholders but to a large extent, stakeholder roles and interests were complementary, creating an environment conducive to effective coordinated ecoagriculture planning.

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Biodiversity conservation, Ecoagriculture landscape, Livelihoods, Stakeholder analysis

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Chitakira, M, Torquebiau, E & Ferguson, W 2012, 'Unique combinations of stakeholders in a transfrontier conservation area promote biodiversity-agriculture integration', Journalof Sustainable Agriculture, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 275-295.