01363pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002300040245004900063260000900112300001400121362000800135520093200143650003601075650003801111650002901149773002701178180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDzingirai, Vupenyu  aThe new scramble for the African countryside  c2003  ap.243-63.  aApr  aThere is in Africa, as in other parts of the third world, a desire for environmental management that simultaneously incorporates and benefits all stakeholders, including private business and villagers. While these partnerships continue to displace the failed state-centric management of the African landscape, research to document their local-level impact is still formative and developing. This article is an attempt to examine the new environmental management partnerships emerging in southern Africa's countryside. It argues that these new interventions not only fail to deliver benefits to villagers: more importantly, they curtail the long-established rights to land and other natural resources of indigenous communities. While villagers may engage in a battle to recover these rights, it is a struggle in which the odds are stacked against them, and which the private sector and its partners are set to win. - Reproduced.  aWild life conservation - Africa  aEnvironmental management - Africa  aEnvironmental management  aDevelopment and Change