{"id":29457,"date":"2023-08-08T15:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/?p=29457"},"modified":"2023-08-08T16:56:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T15:56:01","slug":"wetlands-conservation-farm-dividend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wetlands-conservation-farm-dividend\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetland Conservation Reaps Farming Dividends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An innovative programme that has enabled local communities to adopt a range of conservation agriculture approaches has led to both increased farm yields and incomes, while supporting vital restoration of some of Zambia\u2019s most important wetland areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communities living within the Kafue Flats, a 6,500 square kilometres floodplains that flank each side of Zambia\u2019s longest river, have been adopting a range of practices that embrace a \u2018Functional Landscape Approach\u2019 (FLA)<\/a> to Sustainable Land Management, to ensure that there is a balance between economic and ecological considerations in how the natural environment is managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second phase of Self Help Africa\u2019s \u2018PRESERVE Kafue\u2019 has just launched, and will build on the achievements of an initial three-year project that supported more than 3,000 households along the plains beside the Kafue River to increase and diversify their farm incomes, while protecting and restoring essential wetlands and the broader eco-system within the Kafue sub-basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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