Staff Profiles of MRC

staff profiles of mrc

Mr. Alfons Wabahe Mosimane

Research Interests

Social ecological systems

Common pool resources management

Natural resources governance
Benefit sharing in SES

Resilience/sustainability of collective action initiatives

Consultancies

Community-Based Natural Resources Management in Namibia.

Teaching assignments

Room: E106A
Phone: 061 206 3286

Fax: 061 206 3050

Email: amosimane@unam.na

Biography in brief

Mr. Mosimane is a Geographer with keen interests on the interaction between society and environment. He is a researcher at the University of Namibia since 1996 and completed more than 20 consultancies and research programmes. He acquired experience in research, development and consultancy work in all 13 regions of Namibia. Mr. Mosimane is knowledgeable about the Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) programme in Namibia and southern Africa, as well as other community based approaches in forestry, land and water sector. Mr. Mosimane collaborated with universities in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) on various research programmes.

Project supervision & co-supervision

Management of social ecological systems based on common pool resources.

Membership to Organizations

IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP)
IUCN Southern African Sustainable Use Specialist Group (SASUSG)
Namibian Association of CBNRM Support Organizations (NACSO)

Recent Professional Activities

Publications

Articles and book chapters:

Dan, V., Mchombu, K., Mosimane A.W. 2010. Indigenous medicinal knowledge of the San people: the case of Farm Six, Northern Namibia. Information Development 26: 129-140.

van Donge,J.K., G Eiseb, G., Mosimane A.W. 2007. Land reform in Namibia: issues of equity and poverty. In: Land, poverty and livelihoods in an era of globalization: perspectives from developing and transition countries. Editors A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Saturnino M. Borras, Cristóbal Kay. Publisher Taylor & Francis, 2007. ISBN 0415414490, 9780415414494

Selected Technical Reports:

App, B., A.W. Mosimane, T. Resch, and D.Robinson. (2008). USAID Support to the Community-Based Natural Resource Management Program in Namibia: LIFE Program Review. Chemonics International, Washington, D.C.

Mosimane, A.W., S.F. McCool, S. Lendelvo, L. Khumalo, and M. Pittman. (2008). Issues, Information Needs and Potential Roles for Tertiary Education in Community-Based Natural Resources Management in Namibia: Report from a Workshop. College of Forestry and Conservation, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT.

Wirbelaeur, C., A.W. Mosimane, R. Mabunda, C. Makota, A. Khumalo, and M. Nanchengwa. (2007). A preliminary assessment of the natural resources management capacity of community based organizations in Southern Africa: Cases from Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. WWF – SARPO Occasional Paper Number 17. WWF-SARPO, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Mosimane A. W. (2007). Indigenous peoples Development Plan for San communities in the ICEAMA target sites of Kunene Region. MRC Research Report. Multidisciplinary Research Centre. Windhoek, Namibia.

Mosimane, A.W (2007). Conservancies benefitting communities through various activities to alleviate poverty: A synthesis Report. CBNRM Report Series. Windhoek, Namibia.

Mosimane A.W and K. Aribeb (2005). Exclusion through defined membership in people- centered natural resources management: Who defines? Commons southern Africa CASS/PLASS Occasional Paper Series No. 14, Cape Town, South Africa.

Mosimane A.W. et. al (2003). CBNRM sustainability best practice as identified from Tsiseb conservancy in the Erongo region of Namibia. In: IUCN – The World Conservation Union (2003) Community Based Natural Resources Management: Sustainability Best Practices from Selected case Studies in Southern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe.

Mosimane A.W. and B.T. Jones. (2000). Empowering communities to manage natural resources: Where does the new power lie? Case studies from Namibia. In: Empowering communities to manage natural Resources: Case Studies from Southern Africa. Edited by: Sheona Shackleton and Bruce Campbell. March 2000. On behalf of the SADC Natural Resources Management Programme.

Mosimane A.W. (2000). An institutional analysis of the conflict between livestock and wildlife for grazing resources in the Torra Conservancy. In. Institutional Analysis of Community Based Wildlife Enterprises and use of other Natural Resources – Case Studies from Southern Africa. Edited by Dale Dore and Jonas Chafota. SADC Wildlife Sector, Lilongwe, Malawi.

Conference Papers and proceedings:

Morais, D. B., & Mosimane, A. W. (2010). Community-based wildlife tourism in Namibia. In Women in Tourism Report. UNWTO & UNIFEM.

Zinn, H.C., Mosimane, A.W., & Morais, D.B. (2009). The role of community-based natural resource management in shaping indigenous wildlife value orientations and quality of life in Namibia. Presented at International Congress for Conservation Biology, Beijing, China, July 11-16.

Sporton, D., Mosimane A.W. (2006). Population Ageing and sustainable livelihoods in regions affected by HIV/AIDs: The case of Namibia. International Sociological Association Congress, Durban, RSA. July 23 – 29.

Mosimane, A.W (2003). Reviewer of key note Best Practices Paper: Institutions, governance and capacity. Regional Community based Natural Resources Conference: Sharing best practices for the future. Namibia, Windhoek. March 4 – 7.