Food and Forests: Understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Zambia

Author(s)
Xiaoting Hou-Jones, Jacob Mwitwa, Phil Franks
Date published
Publisher
Sentinel
Material type

In Zambia as in many countries in Africa, policymakers need to better understand and manage the major trade-offs — existing and future — between two competing objectives: increasing agricultural production to meet growing domestic food demand and conserving nature. This briefing explores this issue within the national context in Zambia, and makes suggestions for the way forward.