Zambia
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EU-funded matching grants drive green enterprise growth in Zambia
EU-funded matching grants are supporting 13 enterprises across Zambia’s Lower Zambezi–Luangwa–Nyika corridor, investing in certified seeds and other nature-based value…
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Participatory Landscape Workshop: Envisioning a sustainable future for Zambia
As Zambia’s population surges and its landscapes come under mounting pressure, experts, local communities and stakeholders are converging to chart…
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Wild foods found to be widely collected across all agro-ecological zones of Zambia
New research in Zambia highlights the high volumes collected of a wide range of wild foods – from insects to…
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Informal trade in charcoal and firewood in Africa creates need for sustainable approach
As demand for charcoal and other wood energy soars in Central Africa, with wide-ranging consequences for biodiversity and local communities,…
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Replacing short-term projects with long-term processes
Conservation and development initiatives – even when well-funded and carefully executed – may not succeed if essential, yet often overlooked…
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Engaging Zambian charcoal producers in sustainability efforts
Charcoal production is a major driver of deforestation and forest degradation in Zambia. Increasing demand from urbanization and power cuts…
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New toolbox offers methods to support integrated landscape approaches in multiple contexts
One size does not fit all when implementing integrated landscape approaches (ILAs), so a new toolbox is offering a number…
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Building a shared future in Zambia’s Kalomo landscapes
Bridging differences among actors in Zambia’s Kalomo district
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New research closing knowledge gaps for integrated landscapes approaches
Fieldwork in Ghana, Zambia and Indonesia is demonstrating how integrated landscape approaches (ILAs) can be used to resolve land-use conflicts…
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Miombo woodlands: ‘Forgotten’ southern African dryland forests
This story was originally published on Landscape News. When Paula Whyte, a technical advisor for Tanzania-based non-governmental organization Mpingo Conservation…
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Reflections on landscape challenges and opportunities in Kalomo
With our field work stalled by social unrest in Zambia and then the global COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to seize…
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The mukula wood value chain: Preserving livelihoods and landscapes
By Paolo Cerutti, originally published in Trade for Development News The illegal trade in rosewood is a lucrative business affecting…
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Collaborating for a shared future: Negotiating landscape change in Zambia
It is early afternoon in Choma, the capital of the Southern Province of Zambia. The air is hot and humid…
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Drought fuels charcoal boom in Zambia
Southern Africa, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change, is experiencing its most severe drought in a…
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Kalomo District diary: Resolving competing claims through integrated landscape approaches
Freddie Siangulube and Malaika Yanou are researchers and Ph.D. candidates with the Collaborating to Operationalize Landscape Approaches for Nature, Development…
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