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Pilot project Area

Pilot project Area. Malawi-Zambia Border. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges. The scale of cotton production is unprecedented in Zambia. Shown here is one of numerous cotton depots in Eastern Province.

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Pilot project Area

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  1. Pilot project Area Malawi-Zambia Border

  2. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

  3. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

  4. The scale of cotton production is unprecedented in Zambia. Shown here is one of numerous cotton depots in Eastern Province.

  5. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

  6. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

  7. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

  8. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

  9. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

  10. Increase food security Establish community, shareholder-owned company to sustain process Households market goods through producer groups with obligatory commitments to improved land use Develop fair, legal trade opportunities Link trade benefits to improved land use Is there a better way? Finding a balance between agriculture, markets and conservation:

  11. Conservation area Is there a better way? Finding a balance between agriculture, markets and conservation:

  12. From Theory to Action LOCAL MARKETS NATIONAL MARKETS REGIONAL MARKETS TRADING CENTRE DEPOT DEPOT DEPOT DEPOT DEPOT PRODUCER GROUP PRODUCER GROUP PRODUCER GROUP PRODUCER GROUP PRODUCER GROUP PRODUCER GROUP PRODUCER GROUP Trading Centre Depot

  13. A Conservation-based Enterprise: COMACO Community Markets for Conservation and Rural Livelihoods • Improve watersheds • Improve rural livelihoods • Increase natural resource production

  14. Impact on food security, income, trade

  15. Impact on food security, income, trade

  16. Impact on food security, income, trade

  17. Recovery of wire snares & illegal firearms

  18. Recovery of wire snares & illegal firearms

  19. Recovery of wire snares & illegal firearms

  20. Percentage contrast of safari clients who complained about encountering snares while hunting Recovery of wire snares & illegal firearms

  21. Impact on illegal hunting – poacher transformation

  22. Impact on wildlife

  23. Impact on wildlife Hunting success Hunting effort Hunting success Hunting effort Chanjuzi Chifunda Mwanya Chanjuzi Chifunda Mwanya

  24. Impact on wildlife

  25. Impact on wildlife

  26. Impact on land use Market incentives to adopt alternative crops that minimize conflicts with wildlife and watershed • 1500-2000 farmers to begin soybean farming in 2004 • 600 new rice farmers in 2005

  27. Community land use decisions: Satisfying the CTC conditions Impact on land use Community-based land use plans and producer group conservation by-laws as preconditions for trade benefits

  28. Comaco joint-ventures: community expeditions in wilderness living CTC with 35% share Community with 65% share Community Tourism Bushcamps Mfuwe Airport Zambia-Malawi Border

  29. COMACO: Serving Zambia’s Rural Development Needs • Improving household incomes • Increasing household food security • Promoting community support for natural resource management • Reducing risks of disease transmission • Increasing trade opportunities in ways that enhance natural resource management • Reducing trends of watershed degradation • Increasing wildlife populations • Creating investment opportunities in tourism

  30. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS World Food Program Whitley Laing Foundation Food & Agriculture Organization Liz Claibourne Art Ortenberg Foundation Canadian and German Embassies

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