Items tagged:
Zambia
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Q&A: Strengthening community voices to tackle illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania and Zambia
How can local communities be more effectively engaged in efforts to tackle wildlife crime? We spoke with Zakaria Faustin and Rodgers Lubilo about what they have learned about tackling wildlife crime at the community level and how they are taking this work forward
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From New Zealand to Africa: managing land use trade-offs
As part of the Sentinel project, IIED has developed a new virtual training tool for analysing trade-offs in land use decisions. Xiaoting Hou-Jones shares how the tool was inspired by a decision-making framework designed by a team from Lincoln University, New Zealand, and evolved through trialling it in Ghana and Zambia.
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In her name: securing land tenure for women in Zambia
Gender expert Thais Bessa describes how inclusive technology, a gender-responsive documentation process and shifting gender norms are empowering women through secure land rights
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Zambia’s chiefs champion gender equality in land and natural resource governance
Guest blogger Zenebech Mesfin describes the efforts of Zambian traditional leaders to promote gender equality in the management of land and natural resources at the national level
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Traditional leaders in Zambia shift gender norms and strengthen women’s land rights
Guest blogger Patricia Malasha describes how community-level dialogues uprooted harmful gender norms that hinder women’s rights to land
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Enhancing governance of community-based natural resource management in Zambia
Governance of community-managed protected areas in Zambia is on the decline. IIED, together with Zambia CBNRM Forum, will support stakeholders of six community-managed protected areas to improve their governance and share lessons across the eastern and southern Africa region
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Harnessing the potential of Zambia’s informal food sector
A new report on informal food markets in Zambia explores how integrating these into urban policy planning could help Zambia achieve 'zero hunger'.
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Assessing governance at protected and conserved areas (GAPA)
IIED has developed and is now rolling out a relatively simple, low-cost tool for assessing the quality of governance at protected or conserved areas
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Attracting Zambia's youth to agriculture: it's about time
Zambia's vibrant youth are crucial to developing a prosperous agricultural sector. This means shaking off outdated perceptions and providing young people with the right incentives
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Nourishing diversity in our food systems
Although our food systems seemingly deliver impressive abundance and variety, we are losing crucial agricultural biodiversity and our increasingly homogenised diets are leading to disease and obesity. Seth Cook sets out five steps for better, more diverse food systems
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Promoting diversity on the farm – and the plate
As a recent meeting in Lusaka showed, Food Change Labs offer an innovative path towards greater diversity on the farm and on the plate in Zambia
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Fall army worm maize attack: a case for diversity from farm to fork
As the Zambian government scales up efforts to control an army worm outbreak that is damaging maize crops across the country, William Chilufya wonders if the infestation will encourage a policy shift away from mono-cropping maize
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CBNRM and climate change
IIED collaborated with WWF Zambia to study the linkages between community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and climate change
