1. INNOVATIONS IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT and natural Resource management:
Linking Food Security, Rural Markets and Conservation
A partnership between
And the
Government of Zambia
For the promotion of wildlife management, tourism and sustained rural development in Zambia

2. Pilot project Area
Malawi-Zambia Border

3. To a new idea … From Results …
Food secure, farm-based communities with alternative sources of income to illegal use of wildlife can contribute positively to wildlife production
To a new idea …
From Results …
Poor, unskilled farmers lacking food security cannot contribute positively to wildlife production and without alternative markets, wildlife becomes a viable commodity for poverty reduction.

4. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

5. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

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

7. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

8. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

9. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

10. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

11. Livelihood Needs and Environmental Challenges

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

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

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

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

16. Impact on food security, income, trade

17. Impact on food security, income, trade

18. Impact on food security, income, trade

19. Recovery of wire snares & illegal firearms

20. Recovery of wire snares & illegal firearms

21. Recovery of wire snares & illegal firearms

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

23. Impact on illegal hunting – poacher transformation

24. Impact on wildlife

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

26. Impact on wildlife

27. Impact on wildlife

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

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

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

31. Improving household incomes Increasing household food security
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

32. Underlying theory for a wildlife / agriculture balance?
Subsistence farmers, low density, food secure
Subsistence farmers, medium density, not food secure
Subsistence and cash crop farmers, medium density, not food secure, crops not environmentally friendly
Subsistence and cash crop farmers, medium density, food secure, conservation-based farm markets
Wildlife Production

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