Browsing Research Articles by Author "Hara, Mafaniso"
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Between a rock and a hard place: the need for and challenges to implementation of Rights Based Fisheries Management in small-scale fisheries of Southern Lake Malawi
Hara, Mafaniso; Njaya, Friday (Elsevier, 2016)There has been a decline in commercially valuable fish species, especially the Chambo (Oreochromis spp.), in southern Lake Malawi. Although there might be lack of reliable and scientifically backed evidence, most experts ... -
Efficacy of rights-based management of small pelagic fish within an ecosystems approach to fisheries in South Africa
Hara, Mafaniso (Taylor & Francis, 2013)South Africa’s small pelagics fishery is moving towards a management strategy using an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF), with rights-based management (RBM) as the key rights allocation system. While EAF strives to ... -
Establishing an economically and biologically sustainable and viable inland fisheries sector in South Africa – pitfalls of path dependence
Hara, Mafaniso (Water Research Commission, 2022)Small-scale fisheries play a significant role in livelihoods and food and nutrition security for millions of people around the world. However, these benefits are under threat, especially in developing countries such as ... -
Fragmented participation in management of the fishery for small pelagic fish in South Africa – inclusion of small-rights holders is a complex matter
Hara, Mafaniso; Rogerson, J.; de Goede, J.; Raakjaer, Jesper (NISC (Pty) Ltd (National Inquiry Services Centre), 2014)The reasons why most small-rights holders do not participate in management of the fishery for small pelagic fish (‘small pelagics’) in South Africa, despite legislation and policy encouraging their participation, were ... -
Improving policy coherence for food security and nutrition in South Africa: a qualitative policy analysis
Thow, Anne Marie; Greenberg, Stephen; Hara, Mafaniso; Friel, Sharon; du Toit, Andries; Sanders, David (Springer Netherlands, 2018)Like most other low and middle-income countries, South Africa must address a rising burden of diet-related chronic disease in a situation of persistent food insecurity and undernutrition. Supply-side policy interventions ... -
An institutional approach for developing South African inland freshwater fisheries for improved food security and rural livelihoods
Hara, Mafaniso; Backeberg, Gerhard (Water Research Commission, 2014)South Africa has over 4 700 storage dams, about 700 of which are owned and controlled by Government. Public dams were primarily constructed for domestic, irrigation and industrial water supply. Over time secondary uses for ... -
Institutions and Co-Management in East African Inland and Malawi Fisheries: A Critical Perspective
Nunan, Fiona; Hara, Mafaniso; Onyango, Paul (Elsivier, 2015)Institutions matter within natural resource management. While there are many examples of analyses of the nature and influence of institutions within fisheries, there are fewer examples of how institutions inform the practice ... -
Shallow waters: social science research in South Africa's marine environment
Sowman, M.; Scott, D.; Green, L.J.F.; Hara, Mafaniso; Hauck, M.; Kirsten, K.; Paterson, B.; Raemaekers, S.; Jones, K.; Sunde, J.; Turpie, J.K. (Taylor & Francis, 2013)This paper provides an overview of social science research in the marine environment of South Africa for the period 1994–2012. A bibliography based on a review of relevant literature and social science projects funded under ... -
A typology of fisheries management tools: using experience to catalyse greater success
Selig, Elizabeth R; Kleisner, Kristen M; Ahoobim, Oren; Arocha, Freddy; Cruz-Trinidad, Annabelle; Fujita, Rod; Hara, Mafaniso; Katz, Laure; McConney, Patrick; Ratner, Blake D; Saavedra-Dıaz, Lina M; Schwarz, Anna-Maree; Thiao, Djiga; Torell, Elin; Villasante, Sebastian; Troëng, Sebastian (John Wiley & Sons, 2016)Fisheries provide nutrition and livelihoods for coastal populations, but many fisheries are fully or over-exploited and we lack an approach for analysing which factors affect management tool performance. We conducted a ... -
Value chain analysis of Lake Malawi fish: a case study of Oreochromis spp (Chambo)
Phiri, Letson Yoyola; Dzanja, Joseph; Kakota, Tasokwa; Hara, Mafaniso (Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI), 2013)Chambo has potential of improving fishers’ socio-economic status in Malawi. The paper examines Chambo value chain whose findings will improve fish marketing by actors along the chain. Quantitative value chain analysis used, ...