Large-Scale Investments in Chitemene Farmland: Exploring Marginal Lands Narrative in Zambia's Northern Province

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8902
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	German, Laura; Gumbo, Davison; Schoneveld, George
Conference:	Commoners and the Changing Commons: Livelihoods, Environmental Security, and Shared Knowledge, the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
Location:	Mt. Fuji, Japan
Conf. Date:	June 3-7
Date:	2013
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8902
Sector:	Agriculture
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	agriculture land tenure and use IASC
Abstract:	"This paper aims to fill that gap through a case study in Mpika District, Northern Province, in a prime investment destination located along the TAZARRA corridor. We analyze the income households derive from shifting agricultural plots (chitemene), permanent cropland and other land uses in 3 villages located on the border of a leasehold concession acquired by a foreign company interested in jatropha cultivation. We then take a scenario approach to explore the likely economic impacts of targeting different types of land uses and land cover for customary land users under different employment scenarios."

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