Natural Resource Management, Pro-Poor Tourism, Food Security and Rural Development
A Collaborative Effort To Locate and Make Accessible Resource Materials

NRCF (Natural Resources Consultative Forum)
CBNRMF (Community-Based Natural Resource Management Forum)
UNZA (University of Zambia)
ACF (Agricultural Consultative Forum)/FSRP (Food Security Research Project)

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FSRP Policy Briefs

• Natural Resource Management, Food Security And Rural Development In Zambia: Moving From Research Evidence To Action. Proceedings Of The Public Forum. Phyllis Simasiku, Antony Chapoto, Robert Richardson, Mwape Sichilongo, Gelson Tembo, Michael Weber and Alimakio Zulu. Number 37, February, 2010.
• Impact Of Natural Resource Conservation Policies On Household Consumption Around Zambian National Parks. Gelson Tembo, Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and Jean-Michel Pavy. Number 35, October 2009.
• Access To Land And Poverty Reduction In Rural Zambia: Connecting The Policy Issues. T. S. Jayne, Ballard Zulu, Gear Kajoba and M. T. Weber. Number 34, Sept 2009.
• The Impacts of Wildlife Conservation Policies on Rural Household Welfare in Zambia. Ana Fernandez, Robert B. Richardson, David Tschirley, and Gelson Tembo. Number 33, September 2009.
• The Impact of Wildlife Management Policies on Communities and Conservation in Game Management Areas in Zambia:  Message to Policy Makers. Phyllis Simasiku, Hopeson I. Simwanza, Gelson Tembo, Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and Jean-Michel Pavy. Published by the Natural Resources Consultative Forum NRCF). June 2008 Policy Brief posted by FSRP.

FSRP Research Publications 

• Natural Resource Management, Food Security And Rural Development In Zambia: Moving From Research Evidence To Action. Proceedings Of The Public Forum. Phyllis Simasiku, Antony Chapoto, Robert Richardson, Mwape Sichilongo, Gelson Tembo, Michael Weber and Alimakio Zulu. Working Paper No. 44.  February, 2010
• Wildlife Conservation in Zambia: Impacts on Rural Household Welfare. Ana Fernandez, Robert B. Richardson, David Tschirley, and Gelson Tembo. Working Paper No. 41. September 2009.
• Access to Land, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Zambia: Connecting the Policy Issues. T.S. Jayne, Ballard Zulu, Gear Kajoba, and M.T. Weber. Working Paper No. 34. October 2008.

FSRP Outreach Presentations

• The status of customary land and how it affects the rights of indigenous local communities. Submission by FSRP to the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and Lands Study, January 2010.
• Insights on Natural Resource Management and Rural Development in Zambia: Moving From Research Evidence to Action. Collaborating Partner Public Forum. Pamodzi Hotel, 03 December, 2009
  • Forum Final Programme
  • Opening Comments - Honorable Minister of Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources
  • Forum Summary Document and Suggestions for Action for SNDP and Beyond 
    • Recommendations for Policy Leaders in MTENR, MACO, Livestock and LANDS
    • Policy Synthesis No 37
    • Proceedings Document- Working Paper No. 44
  • Panel Presentations on Community-Based Natural Resource Management
    • The impact of wildlife management policies on communities and conservation in Game Management Areas in Zambia. Alimakio Zulu(NRCF)and Mwape Sichilongo (CBNRMF)
    • Household Consumption and Natural Resource Management around National Parks in Zambia. Dr. Gelson Tembo, (UNZA)
    • The Impacts of Wildlife Conservation Policies on Rural Welfare in Zambia. Dr. Robert Richardson, (FSRP/MSU)
  • Panel Presentations on Land Use and Intensification of agriculture/livestock production and potential for productivity enhancements
    • The Challenge of Integrating the Goals of Productive Land Use and Broad-Based Agricultural Development In Zambia. Dr. Antony Chapoto (FSRP)
    • Conservation Farming and Related Natural Resource Policies for Sustainable Agricultural Intensification-Two Key Issues. Peter Aagaard
    • Improving the lives of poor farmers, rewarding farming practices that protect nature: COMACO. Dr. Dale Lewis, Wildlife Conservation Society
      •  Supplemental Paper: Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO): Scaling up Conservation Impact through Markets that Change Livelihoods. Dale Lewis. 
• The Impact of Wildlife Conservation on Rural Development in Zambia. Robert B. Richardson, Ana Fernandez and David Tschirley. Presented at Regional Science Association International (RSAI). San Francisco, CA. November 19, 2009.
• Measuring the Effects of Natural Resource Conservation Policies on Household Welfare. Robert B. Richardson and David Tschirley. Brown Bag Seminar Series Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics. November 10, 2009.
• Integrating the Goals of Productive Land Use and Broad-Based Agricultural Development. T.S. Jayne. FSRP. Presentation at USAID/Zambia. November 9, 2009.
• Household Consumption and Natural Resource Management around National Parks in Zambia. Gelson Tembo, UNZA. Presented at the Workshop Research and Outreach Towards Game Park and Natural Resource Management to Improve Rural Household Welfare in Zambia. October 27, 2009
• The Impact of Wildlife Conservation Policies on Rural Welfare in Zambia.  Robert Richardson, FSRP/MSU. October 27, 2009
• Smallholder Land Access Research - Possible Interactions with Natural Resource & GMA Issues.   See also Table 1 and 2 handouts.  Michael Weber, FSRP/MSU. Oct 27, 2009
• Tourism and Wildlife Conservation in Africa: Measuring the Impacts to Rural Households. Robert B. Richardson and Ana Fernandez. Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics (AFRE) Brown Bag Seminar Series. November 18, 2008.

Background Publications – Zambia Specific

Natural resources and/or pro-poor tourism

• The Impact Of  Wildlife Management Policies On Communities And Conservation In Game Management Areas In Zambia:  Message To Policy Makers. June 2008.  by Phyllis Simasiku, Hopeson I. Simwanza, Gelson Tembo, Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and Jean-Michel Pavy.  Natural Resources Consultative Forum of Zambia.
• Creating and Protecting Zambia’s Wealth:  Experiences and Next Steps in Environmental Mainstreaming.  2009. by Lubinda Aongola, Stephen Bass, Juliana Chileshe, Julius Daka, Barry Dalal-Clayton, Imasiku Liayo, Joseph Makumba, Maswabi Maimbolwa, Kalaluka Munyinda, Nosiku Munyinda, David Ndopu, Imasiku Nyambe, Adam Pope and Mwape Sichilongo. 
• Household Consumption and Natural Resource Management around National Parks in Zambia. 2009. Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay and Gelson Tembo  World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4932. 
• Opportunities and challenges for sustainable management of miombo woodlands: the Zambian perspective. 2008. Fabian M. Malambo and Stephen Syampungani. Copperbelt University, School of Natural Resources.  Working Papers of the Finnish Forest Research Institute 98: 125–130.
• Economic and Poverty Impact of Nature-based Tourism. Zambia. 2007. World Bank Report No. 43373-ZM. (14 MB)
• Contribution of dry forests to rural livelihoods and the national economy in Zambia. 2007. Charles B.L. Jumbe, Samuel Mulenga Bwalya and Madeleen Husselman. CIFOR. 
• Review And Synthesis Of Lessons Learned Concerning Optimum Forms Of Community Management Structures For Multiple Resource Management In Zambia And Southern And Eastern Africa. 2008.  Development Services And Initiatives (DSI) 
• ADMADE
  • Lessons Learned Papers
    • African College for CBNRM.  Around 2000-2004. 
    • Next Generation Approaches to CBNRM Institutions in Zambia: Building on a Decade of Experience
  • An Evaluation Today and the Future: Policy Issues and Directions. Paul Andre DeGeorges. 1992.
• Fisheries in Zambia:  An undervalued contributor to poverty reduction. Musole M. Musumali, Simon Heck, Saskia M.C. Husken and Marcus Wishart. 2009. World Fish Center and The World Bank. 
• Inventory and Analysis of Community Based Tourism in Zambia. Louise Dixey. Production, Finance and Technology (PROFIT). Nov 2005.
• Community Based Tourism in Zambia: Lessons and Recommendations. Louise Dixey. Production, Finance and Technology (PROFIT). Nov 2005.
• Luangwa Safari Association Tourism Study. Adam Pope. WHYDAH Consulting Ltd. April 2005.
• A Financial and Economic Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Managing the Protected Area Estate. UNDP/GEF Funded Project on Reclassification and Sustainable Management of Zambia’s Protected Area Systems. 2004.
• A Study of the Nature-Based Tourism Supply Side in Zambia - 2005  WHYDAH Consulting LTD. 
• Livingstone Tourism Survey. DCDM Consulting. Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources. 2006.
• Nature Based Tourism Demand Survey Report - Nov 2005. Goodson Sinyenga 
• Economic Impacts Of Transfrontier Conservation Areas: Baseline Of Tourism In The Kavangozambezi TFCA. Helen Suich, Jonah Busch and Nathalie Barbancho.  Conservation International South Africa. 2005.
• A Preliminary Examination of Public Private Partnerships in National Park Management in Zambia. June 2006. by Adam Pope. WHYDAH Consulting LTD.

Land access and land use management

• Zambia Land Alliance Recommendations To The Land And Environment Committee Of The National Constitutional Conference.  2009.
• Land Policy Options for Development and Poverty Reduction Civil Society Views for Pro-poor Land Policies and Laws in Zambia. 2008. Zambia Land Alliance.
• Civil Society Position on Zambia’s draft Land Policy of October 2006. October 2007. Zambia Land Alliance. 
• Zambia's Integrated Land Use Assessment 2005-2008
  • ILUA Final Report
  • Use of Integrated Land Use Assessment (ILUA) Data for Environmental and Agricultural Policy Review and Analysis in Zambia. 2008. 
  • Training Workshop Report.  2003
• Hungry People on Fertile Land. In Zambia Institute for Public. 2007. Malcolm McPherson, Policy Analysis (ZIPPA) Journal, July-September 2007. 
• Draft Land Administration and Management Policy - 2006. Ministry of Lands, Republic of Zambia.
• Contestation, Confusion and Corruption:  Market-based land reform in Zambia.  2005. by Taylor Brown. Chapter 3 in Competing Jurisdictions: Settling Land Claims in Africa, Sandra Every, Marja Spierenburg and Harry Wels. (eds) -Afrika-Studiencentrum Series, Vol 6. Leiden
• Baseline Survey on Women's Access to Agricultural Land in Zambia. Final Research Report. 2005.
• A Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Three Reforms in Zambia: Land, Fertilizer, and Infrastructure. 2005. by Steen Lau Jorgensen and Zlatina Loudjeva.  Poverty and Social Impact Analysis(PSIA)The World Bank.
• Landscape Conservation and Land Tenure in Zambia: Community Trusts in the Kazungula Heartland.  2005. by Simon Metcalf, WWF
• Land Tenure, Housing Rights and Gender - National and Urban Framework: Zambia. 2005.  United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT).
• Land tenure policy and practice in Zambia: issues relating to the development of the agricultural sector. Draft. January 2003. by Martin Adams. Mokoro Ltd 
• Zambia Liveihood Map Rezoning and Baseline Profiling. 2004.  Final Report by the ZAMBIA Vulnerability Assessment Committee. 
• Chileshi, A.  2005. "Land tenure and rural livelihoods in Zambia: Case studies of Kemena and St. Joseph," PhD dissertation, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.  http://www.uwc.ac.za/library/theses/Chileshe_r_a.pdf
• Multi-Sector Country Gender Profile for Zambia. 2006. African  Development Bank.
• Land Tenure, Land Markets,and Institutional Transformation in Zambia. LTC Research Paper 124, 1995. edited by Michael Roth with the assistance of Steven G. Smith. Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin
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    • Title Page and Table of Contents
    • Chapter 1: Legal Framework and Administration of Land Policy in Zambia
    • Chapter 2: Land Administration: Processes and Constraints
    • Chapter 3: Agrarian Structure, Land Markets, and Property Transfers
    • Chapter 4: Land Valuation and Taxation
    • Chapter 5: Land Tenure and Agricultural Development in Customary Areas: Results from Eastern and Southern Provinces
    • Chapter 6: Settlement Programs
    • Chapter 7: Land Use Patterns and Growth in Commercial Input Use, Productivity, and Profitability by Farm Size Category
    • Chapter 8: Zambia's Agricultural Data System: A Review of the Agricultural Time Series Data, with Annexes

Climate Change Effects on Natural Resources, Agriculture and Food Security

• Lessons from REDD+ for Agriculture. CCAFR Report # 4. Negra and Wollengerg (2011). The CGIAR Research Program, Agriculture and Food Security. CCAFR Report # 4.
• The Impact of Climate Variability and Change on Economic Growth and Poverty in Zambia. 2009. by James Thurlow, Tingju Zhu, Xinshen Diao.  IFPRI Discussion Paper 00890. 
• The economic impacts of climate change on agriculture in Zambia. 2006.  Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA). University of Pretoria. 

Background Publications – General

• The Realities of Community Based Natural Resource Management and Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paul Andre DeGeorges and Brian Kevin Reilly.   Sustainability 2009, 1, 734-788.
• Rural Poverty and Natural Resources: Improving Access and Sustainable Management. David R. Lee and Bernardete Neves,and others. Background Paper for IFAD 2009 Rural Poverty Report. 
• Towards defining a pro-poor Natural Resources Management Strategy in the CGIAR:  Conclusions and recommendations from the CGIAR-NGOC Consultation on Natural Resources Management. October 22-23, 1998. Washington D.C. Edited by Miguel Altieri and Marco Barzman, University of California, Berkeley. CGIAR-NGO Committee. 
• Natural Resources and Pro-Poor Growth: The Economics and Politics. DAC Guidelines and Reference Series. A Good Practice Paper. OECD 2008 
• Community-based natural resource management in the southern Africa region: An annotated bibliography and general overview of literature, 1996–2004. 2007. Whande, W.  Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape.) 
• Rural Livelihoods, Poverty Reduction, And Food Security In Southern Africa: Is Cbnrm The Answer.  2007. Jaap Arntzen, Tshepo Setlhogile, and Jon Barnes.  USAID .
• Investment in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Agriculture. Module 5. World Bank AgInvestment Sourcebook. 
• Mapping Climate Vulnerability and Poverty in Africa. Report to Dfid by ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute) in collaboration with TERI (The Energy and Resource Institute) and ACTS (The African Centre fro Technology Studies. 2006.
• Issues in Poverty Reduction and Natural Resource Management.  2006.  Summary of a training program by NRIC operated by Chemonics International for USAID
• From Exclusion to Ownership? Challenges and Opportunities in Advancing Forest Tenure Reform. 2008 by The Rights and Resources Initiative, a global coalition
• Livelihoods and Climate Change: Combining disaster risk reduction, natural resource management and climate change adaptation in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty. 2003.   A Conceptual Framework Paper Prepared by the Task Force on Climate Change, Vulnerable Communities and Adaptation .

Background Presentations – Zambia Specific

• Forest Monitoring for REDD: "A Case Study of the Integrated Land-use Assessment (ILUA) - Zambia". Abel M.Siampale, Senior Forestry Officer - ILUA . 2008
• Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Update for Zambia. A UN REDD Programme Update for Zambia. 2009. Bwalya Chendauka - Principal Forestry Officer
• National Nature-Based Tourism Supply-Side Study. World Bank Funded. 2005-2006
• Summary of Zambia Tourist Survey – preliminary results. Kirk Hamilton, The World Bank .  August 2006
• The Economic Impact of Nature Tourism in Zambia. Based on work by Goodson Sinyenga, Besa Muwele and Kirk Hamilton.  A Government of Zambia-UNDP-DANIDA-World Bank study. 2007

Background Presentations – General

• The challenge of improved natural resource management practices adoption in African agriculture: A social science perspective. 2000. by Chris Barrett, Frank Place, Abdillahi Aboud, and Doug Brown.  ICRAF - Nairobi

Recommended Web Site Resources – Zambia Specific

• ZAWA –(Zambia Wildlife Authority) 
• ZLA – (Zambia Land Alliance)
• MTENR – (Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources - Environment and Natural Resources Projects
• ZARI (Zambian Agricultural Research Institute) 
• COMACO (Community Markets for Conservation - Zambia). 
• CFU – (Conservation Farming Unit)
• ACF (Agricultural Consultative Forum)
• Gart (Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust)
• ECZ (Environmental Council of Zambia)
• WCESC (The Wildlife and Conservation Society of Zambia)
• The African College for Community-Based Natural Resource Management (now operates under ZAWA) 
• REMNPAS (Reclassification and Effective Management of the National Protected Areas System Project)
• CLZ (Conservation Lower Zambezi)
• Climate Change Facilitation Unit (CCFU)
• UN-REDD (Zambia Country Programme) - The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries  
• FAO Zambia (UN-REDD Country Brief) 
• World Fish Center. Zambia and other country publications and activities

Recommended Web Site Resources – General

• CBNRMN Net – (The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network)
• ICRT – (The International Centre for Responsible Tourism)
• Rural Poverty and Environment Program: International Development Research Centre
• World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development. World Bank 2008
• SANREM CRSP  (The Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Collaborative Research Support Program)
• TerrAfrica – Regional Sustainable Land Management 
• FRAME - Knowledge Sharing for the Natural Resource Community
• ELDIS Natural Resource Management Resource Guide
• SARPN Website: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management
• CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research)  
• CIFOR Miombo Woodland Project - Policies and Incentives.  Publications available
• International Institute for Sustainable Development – Reporting Services Division.  
• Development Resource Management Portal - USAID 
• ODI Natural Resource Perspectives
• PPT (Pro Poor Tourism)   
• PEN (Poverty Environment Network)
• RELMA (The Regional Land Management Unit)  ICRAF
• Development Resource Management Portal (USAID Natural Resources Management and Development Portal)
• Poverty Reduction & Natural Resources Management Seminar - Downloadable training materials to accompany the summary publication "Issues in Poverty Reduction and Natural Resource Management".
• GSTA (Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance)
• Sustainable Tourism Training Course TZ - Downloadable training materials on sustainable tourism.
• EP (Ecoagriculture Partners)
• DestiNet - A tourist destination information service that supports networking of various sustainable tourism stakeholders.
• Environmental Guidelines for Small-Scale Activities in Africa-2nd Edition. 2009. USAID/Africa Bureau, Office of Sustainable Development (contains chapters on agriculture, CBNRM, Ecotourism, forestry, fisheries and many other topics)