This project involved several graduate and undergraduate students as well as a score of locally employed assistants. We interviewed in more than 3000 households. In addition I undertook several topical research projects in collaboration with graduate students. These included studies of conflicts over new settlement, the regulation of gathering of thatching grass and the gathering and exchange of edible caterpillars. Much of this work is reflected in the list of papers in my curriculum vitae.
More papers are in progress.
Some of the work is being done by graduate students at University of Zimbabwe. My current work continues these interests. Writing in progress includes a critique of the assumptions underlying research and practice in the community based resource management systems in which I have participated in Zimbabwe. I would welcome opportunities to participate in research about the relationships between people and natural resources. The Socio-Economic Base of Communities in the NRMP Area .