ABSTRACT
Zimbabwe's Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) has received international publicity and acclaim as an innovative approach to natural resources management. This chapter reviews some of the key findings of an evaluation of ten years (1988 to 1998) of the CAMPFIRE programme that was carried out between 1996 and 1998. It focuses on three key issues, namely:
the impact of indigenous knowledge and intangible forces on conservation;
the limited impact of CAMPFIRE on local people's livelihoods; and
the uneven distribution of revenues from CAMPFIRE initiatives.
